Books by Charlaine Harris

“Sookie is a brilliant PI. She’s a telepath: she can read people’s thoughts, and she can sometimes pick up on things that have happened in places when she’s around them. She’s an empath, she can read strong emotions very easily. So she herself is a weird outcast, and as a result she’s neither fully human nor fully supernatural – she exists, again, as that go-between for the normal world and supernatural world. That spot is really where all the supernatural private eyes hang out. And Sookie is great, because she has all this ability to learn information, which makes her very dangerous; but physically speaking, she is as helpless as a regular human being. So she has to be very careful about what she says and what she reveals, even who she hangs around with or looks at for too long. It would be very hard to live your life as Sookie Stackhouse! She’s also one of those characters who builds up a network of favours: people who like her, or want to work with her, or have a crush on her… Her entire existence is about balancing out these interests and powers, and trying to figure out how she’s going to survive until tomorrow.” Read more...

The Best Fantasy Mystery Books

Jim Butcher, Novelist