In the penultimate novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling seriesâthe inspiration for the HBOÂŽÂ original series True BloodâSookie Stackhouse must work with her first love to clear her current undead flame of murder...
Felipe de Castro, the vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), is in town. Itâs the worst possible time for a human body to show up in Eric Northmanâs front yardâespecially the body of a woman whose blood he just drank. Now itâs up to Sookie and Bill Compton, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girlâs fate has nothing to do with her. But she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who has set out to make Sookieâs world come crashing down.