Title: Dead Until Dark
First Published: May 1, 2001
Dead Until Dark is the 1st book in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series
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Summary

Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She’s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn’t get out much. Not because she’s not pretty. She is. It’s just that, well, Sookie has this sort of ‘disability’. She can read minds. And that doesn’t make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill: he’s tall, dark and handsome – and Sookie can’t ‘hear’ a word he’s thinking. He’s exactly the type of guys she’s been waiting for all her life.

But Bill has a disability of his own: he’s a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs out with a seriously creepy crowd with a reputation for trouble – of the murderous kind.

And when one of Sookie’s coleagues is killed, she begins to fear she’ll be next…