Sookie Stackhouse · Book 1
Dead Until Dark
- Published
- 1 May 2001
- Pages
- 326
- ISBN-13
- 9780575117020
- Type
- novel
About this book
Dead Until Dark (2001) opens the Sookie Stackhouse series in Bon Temps, Louisiana, introducing the telepathic cocktail waitress and her vampire boyfriend Bill Compton in a world where vampires have recently "come out of the coffin" after inventing synthetic blood. It runs 326 pages and became the basis for HBO's True Blood.
Its place in Sookie Stackhouse
Dead Until Dark is book 1 in the Sookie Stackhouse series. It is followed by Living Dead in Dallas. See the full Sookie Stackhouse reading order.
Sookie Stackhouse is a telepathic cocktail waitress in the small fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, living in a world where vampires have recently "come out of the coffin" and gone public after inventing synthetic blood. Sookie's mind-reading is more curse than gift -- she can't turn it off, which is exactly why she's drawn to vampire boyfriend Bill Compton and, later, ancient Viking vampire sheriff Eric Northman: around vampires, her head finally goes quiet. Each novel is a self-contained mystery -- a…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781428160859
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781841492995
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780575089365