Description: When a vampire asks cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans that are involved to go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blond and one small mistake for things to turn deadly.

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Reviews: In her second entry in the Southern Vampire series, one of the newest in a budding genre of vampire-mystery-romances, Harris certainly proves her creativity in a story with an excellent pretext, but better editing would have made the novel more palatable. Telepathic cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is dating sexy-and in true romantic novel form-dominant vampire Bill Compton. Inoffensive vampires such as Bill are fighting for rights, respect, and recognition in a vampirophobic America. After Sookie fights off shape-shifters, razorback pigs, and a maenad, a cabal of Dallas vampires summons Sookie and her powers of telepathy to find a missing member. She unwittingly stumbles into a trap set by fundamentalist Christians who wish nothing more than the complete obliteration of all vampires. Battling both evil humans and lecherous, duplicitous vampires, Sookie spunkily protects her own life and romantic relationship. Although the book provides interesting reading, many problems stem from a...

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