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Every Sookie Stackhouse short story ever written – in one special volume – from the New York Times bestselling author.

New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris has re-imagined the supernatural world with her 'spunky' (Tampa Tribune) Southern Vampire novels starring telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse. Now, for the first time, here is every Sookie Stackhouse short story ever written – together in one volume.

Stories include 'Fairy Dust,' 'One Word Answer,' 'Dracula Night,' 'Lucky,' and 'Giftwrap.'

La comunidad sobrenatural de Bon Temps, Luisiana, se está recuperando de dos duros golpes: el desastre natural del huracán Katrina y los acontecimientos de la cumbre vampírica el mes anterior en la norteña ciudad de Rhodes. Sookie Stackhouse está a salvo, aunque un poco aturdida, deseosa de que todo vuelva a la normalidad. Pero la normalidad no termina de llegar. Demasiados vampiros -algunos amigos, otros no- han sido asesinados o heridos y su novio tigre, Quinn, está en el grupo de los desaparecidos.

Las cosas están cambiando, les guste o no a los cambiantes y a los vampiros de su rincón de Luisiana. Y Sookie, amiga del grupo y con un vínculo de sangre con Eric Northman, líder de la comunidad vampira local, se ve en el meollo de cambios.

En las subsiguientes batallas, Sookie ha de enfrentarse al peligro, la muerte y, una vez más, a la traición de alguien a quien quiere. Y justo cuando todo el pelaje ha terminado de volar por los aires y toda la sangre fría ha acabado de fluir, su mundo se verá alterado para siempre…

Armed with a hefty inheritance, Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is embarking on a new career in real estate. But her first showing is murder, when the elegant master bedroom reveals the body of a real-estate broker. When a second body appears at her next showing, Roe realizes that her new career may suddenly come to a dead end.

Solo hay un vampiro con el que Sookie Stackhouse se relaciona, y ese es Bill. Pero desde hace algún tiempo está algo distante: tanto como que se ha ido a otro estado. Eric, su siniestro y atractivo jefe, cree saber dónde encontrarle. Sin pararse a pensarlo, Sookie pone rumbo a la ciudad de Jackson, Misisipi. Allí encontrará el Club de los Muertos, lugar de encuentro un tanto peligroso en el que la elitista sociedad vampírica acude a pasar el rato y engullir un poco de sangre del tipo O. Cuando Sookie sorprenda a Bill en un acto de indisimulable traición, ya no estará segura de si querrá salvarle… o sacar punta a unas cuantas estacas.

Con esta nueva entrega de su saga más exitosa, Harris demuestra que una mezcla casi imposible de vampiros, misterio, romance, intriga y humor puede convertirse en una obra deliciosamente imprescindible.

El juicio final está en camino, y Sookie Stackhouse tiene una habilidad especial para situarse en medio de los problemas; en particular cuando es testigo del ataque con bombas incendiarias al Merlotte’s, el bar donde trabaja. Dado que Sam Merlotte es conocido por su doble naturaleza. Las sospechas inmediatamente recaen sobre los cambiantes de la zona. Sookie tiene otra opinión, pero antes de que pueda investigar surge algo aún más peligroso.

El amante de Sookie, Eric Northman, y su “niña” Pamela están tramando algo en secreto. Sea lo que sea, parecen decididos a mantener a Sookie al margen. Pero Sookie está igual de decidida a descubrir que está ocurriendo. No puede permanecer de brazos cruzados cuando tanto su trabajo como su vida amorosa están amenazados. Sin embargo, cuanto más progresa en sus investigaciones, más consciente es de que la situación es más mortal de lo que nunca hubiera podido imaginar.

Wielu uważało, że Deedra była za łatwa. Ale kto miał powód, by ją załatwić?

Na moment moją uwagę odciągnęła nagość tej kobiety i jej odsłonięte uda. Ale kiedy spojrzałam w jej twarz, musiałam zagryźć wargi, żeby nie krzyknąć. Oczy Deedry były na wpół otwarte, ale nie odwzajemniały mojego spojrzenia.

Lily Bard znajduje w lesie ciało Deedry, którą męska część populacji miasteczka znała aż za dobrze. Sytuacja wydaje się oczywista: Deedra zginęła po kłótni z którymś z licznych kochanków. Ale Lily, która jak nikt inny znała zwyczaje swojej klientki, niepokoją szczegóły, na które policja nie zwróciła uwagi. Lily ma też inne sprawy na głowie: jej chłopak ciągle musi podróżować, a ona sama zaczyna się czuć niepokojąco dobrze w miasteczku i chciałaby tu zostać na dłużej. A to wróży same kłopoty

These Lily Bard novels stand out among traditional cozy mysteries because of the noirish spin Harris puts on the seemingly typical charming southern town of Shakespeare, AR, on her heroine. Lily Bard makes a compelling amateur sleuth. Here she heads home to Bartley, AR, for her sister Varenas Christmas wedding. But soon after she arrives, Lilys private-detective boyfriend shows up too: hes investigating a 4-year-old unsolved kidnapping. Lily cant help but get involved when she discovers that the case hits dangerously close to home – for Varenas new husband is the widowed father of a girl bearing a remarkable resemblance to the vanished child.

Cleaning woman and karate expert Lily Bard is a woman with a complicated past. Trying her best to cope with her terrifying memories and horrible nightmares, she decides to join a weekly group therapy session in her hometown of Shakespeare, Arkansas. At first, Lily can hardly believe the number of her fellow Shakespeareans that share her life experiences.

As it turns out, the group members' feelings aren't the only things that need sorting out – they assemble for a session and find a woman dead, killed in bone-chilling fashion and deliberately left on display to send a twisted message. Who would commit such horrendous crime, and who is the intended recipient of the message?

Before long, Lily becomes embroiled in this disturbing murder and its aftermath, one in which the brutal killer's motives are entirely unclear. The truth is, the situation has dredged up more than a few of her own terrible secrets, and she may not be able to rest until she can untangle the who and why of this terrible crime. But can she accomplish this before the killer strikes again, and before her nightmares send her over the edge? Shakespeare's Counselor is the most complex and absorbing installment yet in Charlaine Harris's engaging, original, and more than slightly dark mystery series.

Dill obiecał siostrze Lily wieczną miłość.

Ale czy wcześniej nie zapewnił innym wiecznego spoczynku?

Przed Lily długo odkładana wizyta w rodzinnym mieście. Co gorsze, okazja wymaga falbanek i koronek – jej siostra wyprawia wielkie prowincjonalne wesele. Ale przygotowań nie zdominują bezy, welony i kwiaty. Miejscowy lekarz i pielęgniarka zostali brutalnie zamordowani w swoim gabinecie, a dobrze znany Lily detektyw próbuje odnaleźć porwane dzieci. I wydaje się, że jest w to poważnie zamieszany jej przyszły szwagier. Lily ma tylko kilka dni, żeby dowiedzieć się, kim naprawdę jest Dill.

Charlaine Harris zasłynęła zekranizowaną przez Alana Balla serią o Sookie Stackhouse, kelnerce-telepatce. Serial „Czysta krew” i jego przebojowa bohaterka podbiły serca milionów widzów na całym świecie, a książki na stałe zagościły na listach bestsellerów.

Shakespeare, Arkansas, is a small Southern town with plenty of secrets, and Charlaine Harris's Lily Bard is just one more of its residents – albeit one harboring a few secrets of her own – with a desire to live quietly. Lily keeps to herself, between her job as a cleaning woman for several townspeople and her visits to the gym, where she's a devotee of karate and bodybuilding. These two pursuits seem a bit odd for the petite Southern woman, but as work and play, they keep her focused and balanced. When a fellow gym member is found dead after a workout with a barbell across his throat, Lily wants to believe it's an accident. But looking at the incident against the background of other recent events in Shakespeare, including a few incidents that appear to be racially motivated, she's afraid it could be a part of something much, much bigger – and much more sinister.

Ir a dos bodas -una de ellas la de un antiguo amor- y al funeral de uno de los miembros del club, ya disuelto, de aficionados al estudio de crímenes mantiene muy ocupada a Aurora «Roe» Teagarden durante unos meses. Por desgracia, su vida personal parece estar en un punto muerto, hasta que su suerte cambia inesperadamente.

Tras el funeral, Roe descubre que Jane Engle, la fallecida, la ha nombrado beneficiaria de una considerable herencia que incluye dinero, joyas y una casa con un cráneo oculto en la repisa de una ventana. Conociendo a Jane, Roe concluye que la anciana le ha dejado deliberadamente un asesinato por resolver. Por tanto, deberá identificar a la víctima y descubrir cuál de los vecinos de Jane, todos aparentemente normales y corrientes, es un asesino. Y todo ello sin ponerse ella en peligro de muerte…

Dzięki wynalezionej w japońskim laboratorium syntetycznej krwi oraz napojowi z jej ekstraktem o nazwie Tru: Blood, w ciągu zaledwie jednej nocy wampiry z legendarnych potworów przeistoczyły się w przykładnych obywateli. I chociaż ludzie nie figurują już w ich jadłospisie, społeczeństwo niepokoi się, co stanie się, gdy wampiry opuszczą mroczne kryjówki.

Pewnego dnia Sookie znajduje na parkingu ciało zamordowanego kucharza z baru, w którym pracuje. Jakby tego było mało, zostaje śmiertelnie poraniona i otruta przez tajemnicza postać z mitów greckich. Na szczęście, pewne przyjacielsko usposobione wampiry wysysają jej zatrutą krew. Kiedy proszą ja o przysługę, Sookie wdzięczna za uratowanie życia nie odmawia. Wkrótce wykorzystuje swoje telepatyczne zdolności aby znaleźć wskazówkę co do zaginięcia pewnego wampira. Wkrótce, jednak Sookie zaczyna żałować swej decyzji…

Tex Sookie tiene una racha de mala suerte. Su compañero de trabajo ha sido asesinado, la ataca una criatura que la inflige un corte venenoso y la salvan unos vampiros que le chupan el veneno de las venas. Cuando estos le piden un favor, acepta. Y pronto estará usando sus habilidades telepáticas buscando a un vampiro desaparecido. Solo pone una condición: los vampiros deben prometer que se van a comportar y dejar a los humanos indemnes… Más fácil de decir que de hacer.

"On the way to a lunch meeting of her local book discussion group, the Uppity Women, small-town Southern librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is shocked and dismayed to find her sister-in-law, Poppy, lying bloody and dead right outside her own back door. Poppy had her flaws, certainly – she and her husband were having trouble staying faithful to each other – but she didn't deserve to be so brutally murdered." Investigating a case like this is never easy, of course, given the gossipy atmosphere of any small town, what with Poppy and her husband's extramarital affairs, the local police detective, who also happens to be a former boyfriend of Roe's, and his seemingly unresolved feelings of Poppy, and the need to protect Poppy's family. But Roe is also coping with a burgeoning romantic relationship as well as the sudden appearance of her teenaged half brother. All in all, it's a lot for one woman to have on her plate, even one as together as Roe.

Para Sookie Stackhouse, las actividades del día a día de los vampiros y cambiantes de la comunidad de Bon Temps y alrededores, en Luisiana, son de vital interés. Tiene un vínculo de sangre con el rey de los vampiros, es amiga del grupo de cambiantes local, trabaja para un hombre que puede transformarse en cualquier animal y tiene un hermano pantera…

Aunque para la mayor parte de la población humana, los vampiros son criaturas misteriosas y seductoras, y eso que ni siquiera saben de la existencia de los cambiantes… Hasta ahora. Se han decidido a seguir la línea de los no muertos y revelar por fin su existencia al resto del mundo.

Al principio todo parece ir como la seda… pero el cuerpo mutilado de una pantera aparece en el parking del Merlotte's. Sin embargo, un peligro todavía mayor que el susodicho asesino amenaza Bon Temps. Una raza de seres mayores, más sabios y mucho más reservados que los vampiros o los cambiantes, se prepara para una guerra. Y Sookie se verá convertida en el títere humano de todos ellos en su batalla.

Welcome back to Shakespeare – a charming Arkansas town with endless back roads, an eclectic mix of residents, and a dollop of noir. Featuring cleaning woman/karate expert Lily Bard." "Lily discovers lifelong Shakespeare resident Deedra Dean murdered inside a car parked in a woodsy area outside town. Determined not to get involved, Lily wants to leave the police work to Sheriff Marta Schuster and her team of deputies, and concentrate on cleaning, high kicks, and her boyfriend Jack's impending visit. But when Deedra's notoriously promiscuous lifestyle provides an extensive list of suspects but very few clues, Lily has no choice but to resume the role of amateur detective and join the investigation.

Includes a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story!

What could be scarier than the first day of school? How about a crash course in the paranormal from Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner, editors of Home ? Your worst school nightmares — taking that math test you never studied for, finding yourself naked in school assembly, not knowing which door to enter — will pale in comparison to these thirteen original stories that take academic anxiety to whole new realms.

In #1 bestselling author Charlaine Harris's story, "Playing Possum," Sookie Stackhouse brings enough birthday cupcakes for her nephew's entire class but finds she's one short when the angry ex-boyfriend of the school secretary shows up.

When her guardian, Kate Daniels, sends her undercover to a school for exceptional children, teenaged Julie learns an all-new definition of "exceptional," in bestselling author Ilona Andrews's "Magic Tests."

For those who like fangs with their forensics, bestselling author Nancy Holder offers "VSI," in which FBI agent Claire is tested as never before in a school for Vampire Scene Investigation.

And in bestselling author Thomas Sniegoski's "The Bad Hour," Remy Chandler and his dog Marlowe find evil unleashed in an obedience school.

You'll need more than an apple to stave off the creatures in these and nine other stories. Remember your first lesson: resistance is fruitless!

Includes stories by: ILONA ANDREWS, AMBER BENSON, RHYS BOWEN, MIKE CAREY, CHARLAINE HARRIS, DONALD HARSTAD, STEVE HOCKENSMITH, NANCY HOLDER, FAITH HUNTER, TONI L.P. KELNER, MARJORIE LIU, JONATHAN MABERRY, THOMAS SNIEGOSKI

Aurora Teagarden's life was pretty much in order, though she wouldn't have objected to a nice relationship. All things considered, however, there wasn't anything to complain about. Then Jane Engle died. Aurora and Jane had been friends – not particularly close friends, but they'd both been members of the Real Murder Society and on occasion had shared tea, as well as an interest in crime. So Aurora was surprised to discover that she was named in Jane's will as the heir to her home and some money… about a half million dollars, in fact. A nice house, a lot of money… things were looking up nicely. But the house held a secret – a fact that was frighteningly obvious the first time Aurora went there and realized that someone had broken in, had been searching for something. It didn't take long to discover the secret: Jane had hidden a skull, and Aurora had just found it. Aurora Teagarden was no stranger to a good mystery, but she wasn't quite certain what to do with this one. Before she has a chance to consider her next move, someone decides that she already knows too much. Now she has a few more questions to answer: Whodunit? Who was it done to? And who seemed to keep on wanting to do it?

Agatha Award (nominee)

Publisher's Weekly

An ingenious plot and sufficient flow of blood keep the pages flying in Harris's (Sweet and Deadly) third novel, as a series of killings patterned after celebrated murders is perpetrated on the small community of Lawrenceton, Ga. Twenty-eight-year-old Aurora (Roe) Teagarden, professional librarian, belongs to the Real Murders club, a group of 12 enthusiasts who gather monthly to study famous baffling or unsolved crimes. As a meeting is to begin, Roe discovers the massacred body of a club member. She recognizes the method of slaughter as imitating the very crime she was to address that night-suddenly her life as armchair sleuth assumes an eerie reality. The murderer continues to claim victims, each in the style of a different historical killer. Roe herself becomes a target, and also attracts two admirers, Robin Crusoe, a famed mystery writer new to Lawrenceton, and club member/detective Arthur Smith. Death seems to have infused new life into her waning social calendar, an irony not lost on this pensive character. Harris draws the guilty and the innocent into an engrossing tale while inventing a heroine as capable and potentially complex as P. D. James's Cordelia Gray. (Dec.)

School Library Journal

YA- Someone is killing the crime buffs of the Real Murders Society in Lawrenceton, Georgia. A librarian, Aurora Teagarden, sets out to catch the brutal murderer after fellow club members end up as victims. The uncanny resemblances to famous crimes challenge Roe and her two admirers, policeman Arthur Smith and mystery writer Robin Crusoe, to pursue the criminal. The lighthearted, witty handling of characters contrasts with the heightening suspense as Aurora seeks clues by searching past mysteries for the killer's identity-until she is caught in the sadistic web of terror herself. Clever pacing along with ample red herrings and judiciously placed clues keep Harris's story moving briskly. Let's hope for another fast-paced mystery featuring Aurora and her friends.- Mary T. Gerrity, Queen Anne School, Upper Marlboro, MD

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Aurora Teagarden, Lawrenceton, Georgia, librarian and member of a club devoted to the study of famous crimes, has prepared what she thinks ought to be a riveting speech for the Real Murders Society. But a playful murderer steals the show with a real-life re-enactment of the case Aurora has chosen, casting one of the club members as victim. Gathering her wits about her after the shock of discovering the body, Aurora-Roe to her friends-provides some tips for policeman Arthur Smith, another member of the club, on the similarities between the cases.

Soon bespectacled Roe is receiving attentions not only from Arthur but from mystery writer Robin Crusoe. Robin is new in town and a tenant of the apartment complex Roe manages for her mother. It is not long, however, before the unwonted glow of romance Roe is basking in is overshadowed by the murderer, who seems to have chosen her for his next victim. Roe is too smart to fall prey to the ghoulish prankster but he hits his mark the next time, killing the parents of one of her friends, again in the style of an earlier crime. Lawrenceton appears to have a serial killer on its hands, and an audacious one at that. He taunts the police further by planting evidence in one of their own vehicles, and on the properties of society members.

Roe is sure one of her fellow history buffs is guilty but can’t decide whether it’s Philip Allison, a mentally disturbed library worker; Gilford Doakes, whose special interest is mass murders; or someone seemingly more stable, like reporter Sally Allison or banker Bankston Waite. Supported by Arthur and Robin, between whom she is not yet ready to choose, Roe scours the chronicles of old murders and the real settings of the crimes for the clues that will crack the case.

Now best known for her New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse novels, Charlaine Harris hit "a home run the first time out" (Birmingham News) with the story of a murder that embroils a small-town reporter in mystery that hits close to home…

Catherine Linton has returned to her hometown of Lowfield, Mississippi, unconvinced that the death of her parents in a car crash six months earlier was an accident. And her suspicions are confirmed when she stumbles upon the dead and beaten body of her doctor-father's longtime nurse. There are secrets being kept in Lowfield. And the town where Catherine grew up may be the same place where she is sent to her grave…

El “Asesinato del Mes” de repente adquirió una dimensión muy violenta y… real

Cada mes, Real Murders, una asociación de aficionados al crimen de Lawrenceton, Georgia, se reúne para discutir sobre un asesinato famoso. Sus miembros son de lo más excéntrico: Gifford Doakes, el especialista en masacres; Jane Engle, amante de las historias de terror victorianas; Perry Allison, fan de Ted Bundy…

Durante la noche de la última reunión, la bibliotecaria local, Aurora «Roe» Teagarden, descubrió el cuerpo mutilado de Mamie Wright en la cocina de la sede del club. Está segura de que el asesino pertenece a la asociación, ya que el crimen guarda un parecido escalofriante con el Asesinato del Mes.

Y como quiera que después tuvieron lugar otros asesinatos de imitación, el único móvil parece un aterrador y extraño sentido de la diversión…