Cover of A Touch of Dead

A Touch of Dead

Charlaine Harris · Sookie Stackhouse

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A mind-reading cocktail waitress navigates vampires, weres, and small-town chaos in Louisiana.

Content Warnings
violence/gore

Description

Meet Sookie Stackhouse!Sookie Stackhouse is everybody's favourite cocktail waitress: a cute bubbly blonde ... who can read minds. But Sookie's far from being the only person in Bon Temps, Louisiana with a handicap, what with the local vampire population demanding their unhuman rights and weres fighting for territory ... In fact, Bon Temps is a pretty lively place these days!A Touch of Dead collects together all the Sookie Stackhouse short stories in one gorgeous volume, and showcases the writing talents of international bestseller Charlaine Harris.

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