| Dead Until Dark is the first book in Charlaine Harris's series The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels. In this first installment, the author introduces Sookie Stackhouse, a 25-year-old telepathic waitress in the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, and her world, an alternate history where vampires, shapeshifters and other supernatural beings coexist with humans. In Dead Until Dark Sookie begins a romantic entanglement with her vampire neighbor and is faced with a series of murders in town. |