Charlaine Harris

http://www.charlaineharris.com/

Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She switched to novels a few years later, and achieved publication in 1981 with Sweet and Deadly.

After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris launched the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden books with Real Murders, a Best Novel 1990 nomination for the Agatha Awards. Harris wrote eight books in her series about a Georgia librarian. In 1996, she released the first in the much darker Shakespeare mysteries, featuring the amateur sleuth Lily Bard, a karate student who makes her living cleaning houses. Shakespeare’s Counselor, the fifth—and last—was printed in fall 2001.

After Shakespeare, Harris created The Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy series about a telepathic waitress named Sookie Stackhouse who works in a bar in the fictional Northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps. The first book in the series, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001. Each book follows Sookie through her adventures involving vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. The series, which now numbers eleven titles, has been released worldwide.

Sookie Stackhouse has proven to be so popular that Alan Ball, creator of the HBO television series Six Feet Under, announced he would undertake the production of a new HBO series based upon the books He wrote and directed the pilot episode for that series, True Blood, which premiered in September of 2008 . It was an instant success and is now filming its fourth season.

In October 2005, the first of Harris’s new mystery series about a young woman named Harper Connelly debuted with the release of Grave Sight. Harper has the ability to determine the cause of death of any body. After four novels, this series is on hiatus.

Harris has also co-edited four very popular anthologies with her friend Toni L.P. Kelner. The anthologies feature stories with an element of the supernatural, and the submissions come from a rare mixture of mystery and urban fantasy writers.

Professionally, Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the American Crime Writers League, Sisters in Crime, and the International Crime Writers Association. She is a past member of the boards of Sisters in Crime and MWA. She is also a member of Science Fiction Writers of America, Horror Writers Association, and Romance Writers of America, just to make sure she’s covered.

Personally, Harris is married and the mother of three. She lives in a small town in Southern Arkansas and when she is not writing her own books, she reads omnivorously. Her house is full of rescue dogs.

Books

Dead Over Heels (An Aurora Teagarden Mystery #5) March 6, 2012 When death comes from out of the blue, part-time librarian “Roe” lands smack in the middle of a baffling murder case—in the latest Aurora Teagarden mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Read more...

Dead in the Family
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #10)
March 6, 2012


After enduring torture and the loss of loved ones during the brief but deadly Faery War, Sookie Stackhouse is hurt and she’s angry. Just about the only bright spot in her life is Read more...

Down These Strange Streets
(All-New Stories of Urban Fantasy)
October 4, 2011


All new strange cases of death and magic in the city by some of the biggest names in urban fantasy.

In this all-new collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R.R. Martin and Read more...

Dead in the Family
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #10)
October 4, 2011


After enduring torture and the loss of loved ones during the brief but deadly Fae War, Sookie Stackhouse is hurt and she’s mad. Just about the only bright spot in her life is Read more...

The Julius House
(An Aurora Teagarden Mystery #4)
September 20, 2011


Fourth in Charlaine Harris’s acclaimed Aurora Teagarden mystery series.

Wealthy businessman Martin Bartell gives Aurora exactly what she wants for their wedding: Julius House. But both the house and Martin come with murky pasts. Read more...

Dead and Gone
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel)
September 5, 2011


Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, knew little about vamps—and nothing about weres. Until now. The weres and shifters have finally revealed their existence to the ordinary world. And the Read more...

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion
August 30, 2011


The #1 New York Times bestselling author presents the definitive guide to the world of Sookie Stackhouse.

Charlaine Harris has topped the bestseller charts and has become a nationwide phenomenon, thanks to Read more...

Home Improvement: Undead Edition
(All-New Tales of Haunted Home Repair and Surreal Estates)
August 2, 2011


The editors of the New York Times bestselling Death’s Excellent Vacation bring home a new collection...with a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story!

There’s nothing like home renovation for finding skeletons in the closet or otherwordly Read more...

Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
(An Aurora Teagarden Mystery #3)
June 7, 2011


Third in Charlaine Harris’s acclaimed Aurora Teagarden Mystery series.

An unexpected legacy has given former librarian Aurora “Roe” Teagarden some time on her hands, so she decides to try selling real estate. Her Read more...

Dead Reckoning
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #11)
May 3, 2011


New in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series—the basis for HBO^®’s True Blood!

With her knack for being in trouble’s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte’s, the bar where she Read more...

Dead and Gone
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #9)
April 5, 2011


Originally published May 2009 in hardcover and April 2010 in mass market paperback.

Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, knew little about vamps—and nothing about Weres. Until now. The Weres and Read more...

Crimes by Moonlight
(Mysteries from the Dark Side)
April 5, 2011


A winning mystery collection edited by and featuring an original story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris.

Nighttime is the perfect time for the perfect crime. #1 New York Times Read more...

Dead in the Family
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #10)
March 29, 2011


The #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series—the basis for HBO^®’s True Blood—continues!

After enduring torture and the loss of loved ones during the brief but deadly Faery War, Sookie Stackhouse is Read more...

A Bone to Pick
(An Aurora Teagarden Mystery #2)
March 1, 2011


Second in the #1 New York Times bestselling author’s Aurora Teagarden mystery series.

Aurora “Roe” Teagarden’s fortunes change when a deceased acquaintance names her as heir to a rather substantial estate, including money, Read more...

Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
November 2, 2010


New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Keri Arthur, Carrie Vaughn, and Karen Chance—along with ten other masters of the genre—offer stories on werewolves and the holidays, a fresh variation on the Read more...

Grave Secret
(A Harper Connelly Mystery #4)
November 2, 2010


Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as family. But as they travel to Read more...

Real Murders
(An Aurora Teagarden Mystery #1)
October 5, 2010


A society of crime buffs discovers a mutilated body in their clubhouse kitchen and the town librarian suspects a fellow member because the crime closely resembled the club’s “murder of the month.” Read more...

Must Love Hellhounds
September 7, 2010


Four big names in paranormal—four adventures starring man’s worst friend...

In these four original novellas, readers follow paranormal bodyguards Clovache and Batanya into Lucifer’s realm, where they encounter his fearsome four-legged pets, in Charlaine Read more...

Death's Excellent Vacation
August 3, 2010


The editors of Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and Many Bloody Returns deliver a new collection—including a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story.

New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost—plus Lilith Saintcrow, Jeff Abbott, Read more...

Dead in the Family
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #10)
May 4, 2010


The #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series—the basis for HBO^®’s True Blood—continues!

After enduring torture and the loss of loved ones during the brief but deadly Faery War, Sookie Stackhouse is Read more...

Crimes by Moonlight
(Mysteries from the Dark Side)
April 6, 2010


An all-new mystery anthology edited and featuring a new story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris

Nighttime is the perfect time for the perfect crime. #1 New York Times bestselling Read more...

Dead and Gone
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #9)
April 6, 2010


When the weres and shifters finally come out, the residents of Bon Temps, Louisiana, must deal with the violent aftermath. But a far greater danger threatens. A race of unhuman beings—older, more powerful, Read more...

From Dead to Worse
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #8)
February 2, 2010


After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit, Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed, yearning for things to get back to normal. But Read more...

All Together Dead
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #7)
January 5, 2010


Originally published May 2007 in hardcover and April 2008 in mass market paperback.

Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after Read more...

Definitely Dead
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #6)
December 1, 2009


As a person with so few living relatives, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse really hated to lose one. But she never guessed that it would be her cousin Hadley—a consort of the Vampire Read more...

Dead as a Doornail
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #5)
November 3, 2009


When Sookie's brother Jason's eyes start to change, she knows he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly Read more...

Grave Secret
(A Harper Connelly Mystery #4)
October 27, 2009


New in the series from New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels.

Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit Read more...

Dead to the World
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #4)
October 6, 2009


Sookie Stackhouse is a small-town cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's pretty. She does her job well. She keeps to herself and has only a few close friends because not Read more...

A Touch of Dead
(A Sookie Stackhouse Short Story Collection)
October 6, 2009


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 Read more...

Club Dead
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #3)
September 1, 2009


Sookie's boyfriend has been very distant-in another state, distant. Now she's off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead-a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But Read more...

Must Love Hellhounds
September 1, 2009


From New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris and Nalini Singh and national bestselling authors Ilona Andrews and Meljean Brook, tales of man's worst friend...

In these hound-eat-hound worlds, anything goes... and everything bites.

Follow paranormal Read more...

Living Dead in Dallas
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #2)
August 4, 2009


When a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed. Read more...

Poppy Done to Death
(An Aurora Teagarden Mystery #8)
July 7, 2009


From the New York Times bestselling author of Last Scene Alive and the Sookie Stackhouse novels.

Not just any woman in Lawrenceton, Georgia, gets to be a member of the Uppity Women Book Read more...

Dead Until Dark
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #1)
July 7, 2009


Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life—and one of her coworkers checks out....

Maybe having a vampire for a Read more...

Last Scene Alive
(An Aurora Teagarden Mystery #7)
May 5, 2009


From the New York Times bestselling author of Dead Over Heels and the Sookie Stackhouse novels.

Roe is still in mourning over her husband's death when a movie company arrives in Lawrenceton. They've Read more...

Dead and Gone
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel #9)
May 5, 2009


Now an HBO original series, True Blood—the New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series continues.

Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vamps—and nothing about weres.

Until now. The weres Read more...

From Dead to Worse
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel/A Southern Vampire Novel #8)
March 31, 2009


After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit, Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed, yearning for things to get back to normal. But Read more...

A Fool and His Honey
February 3, 2009


Aurora's been around long enough to know that when a day starts out with your handyman going crazy in your front yard, it probably won't get any better. Sure enough, her husband Martin's Read more...

Many Bloody Returns
February 3, 2009


Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous—these stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or birthdays) in quite the same way again.

In Charlaine Harris's "Dracula Night," Sookie Stackhouse is the only human Read more...

Living Dead in Dallas
(A Sookie Stackhouse Novel)
January 6, 2009


The second Sookie Stackhouse novel from the New York Times bestselling author—and the basis for the HBO series True Blood.

For years, Charlaine Harris has delighted fans with her mystery series featuring small-town waitress-turned-paranormal sleuth Read more...

Shakespeare's Christmas
(A Lily Bard Mystery #3)
November 4, 2008


Even in a sleepy Arkansas town, the holidays can be murder.

Lily Bard is going home for the holidays. More comfortable in baggy sweats than bridesmaid's frills, Lily isn't thrilled about attending her estranged Read more...

An Ice Cold Grave
(A Harper Connelly Mystery #3)
October 7, 2008


Harper Connelly heads to Doraville, North Carolina, to find a missing boy—one of several teenage boys who have disappeared over the last five years. And all of them are calling for Harper. She Read more...

Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
October 7, 2008


The editors of Many Bloody Returns deliver the perfect howl-iday gift, with new tales from Patricia Briggs, Carrie Vaughn, and many more.

Let's face it—the holidays can bring out the beast in anyone. Read more...

Dead Until Dark
(A Southern Vampire Mystery #1)
September 2, 2008


Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much. Not because she's not pretty. She is. It's just that, well, Sookie Read more...

Dead Over Heels
(An Aurora Teagarden Mystery #5)
August 5, 2008


Part-time librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted to see him dead—especially not dropped from a plane right into her own backyard. But when other Read more...

The Julius House
(An Aurora Teagarden Mystery #4)
June 3, 2008


Love at first sight turns into newlywed bliss for former librarian Aurora Teagarden—until violence cuts the honeymoon short.

Wealthy businessman Martin Bartell gives Roe exactly what she wants for their wedding: Julius House. But Read more...

From Dead to Worse
(A Southern Vampire Novel #8)
May 6, 2008


The latest entry of the "New York Times" bestselling Southern Vampire series--the inspiration for the upcoming HBO series "True Blood." After Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit in New Read more...

All Together Dead
(A Southern Vampire Novel #7)
March 25, 2008


Betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse must now not only deal with a possible new man in her life—the oh-so-handsome shapeshifter Quinn—but also contend with a long-planned vampire summit. Read more...

Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
(An Aurora Teagarden Mystery #3)
March 4, 2008


Third in the Aurora Teagarden series, one great new look.

Deciding if she wants to go into real estate becomes a life-or-death choice for Aurora "Roe" Teagarden. A naked corpse is discovered at her Read more...

A Bone to Pick
(An Aurora Teagarden Mystery #2)
February 5, 2008


Death comes calling on a small-town librarian whose life is passing her by.

Aurora "Roe" Teagarden's fortunes change when a deceased acquaintance names her as heir to a rather substantial estate, including money, jewelry, Read more...

Real Murders
(An Aurora Teagarden Mystery #1)
December 4, 2007


Though a small town at heart, Lawrenceton, Georgia, has its dark side—and crime buffs. One of whom is librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, a member of the Real Murders Club, which meets once a Read more...

Dead Until Dark
(A Southern Vampire Mystery #1)
November 15, 2007


Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much. Not because she's not pretty. She is. It's just that, well, Sookie has Read more...

Grave Surprise
(A Harper Connelly Mystery #2)
October 2, 2007


While in Memphis, psychic Harper Connelly senses—and finds—two bodies in a grave. One of a man centuries-dead. The other, a girl, recently deceased. Harper's investigation yields another surprise: the next morning, a third body Read more...

An Ice Cold Grave
(A Harper Connelly Mystery #3)
September 25, 2007


Hired to find a boy gone missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver head there—only to discover that the boy was only one of several who had disappeared over Read more...

Many Bloody Returns
September 4, 2007


Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others.

Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or birthdays) in quite the Read more...

A Secret Rage
August 7, 2007


Former New York City model Nickie Callahan is looking forward to the easy life when she moves to the sleepy college town of Knolls, Tennessee. But the women of Knolls are not safe. Read more...

All Together Dead
(A Southern Vampire Novel #7)
May 1, 2007


Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal Read more...

Definitely Dead
(A Southern Vampire Novel #6)
March 27, 2007


Sixth in the Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series.

Spiked with a frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy, this bestselling series sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to New Orleans, where she has Read more...

Sweet and Deadly
March 6, 2007


The New York Times bestselling author's first book - originally published in 1981.

Catherine Linton has returned to her hometown of Lowfield, Mississippi, unconvinced that the death of her parents in a car crash Read more...

Shakespeare's Champion
(A Lily Bard Mystery)
December 5, 2006


There's something rotten in Shakespeare...

Lily Bard was running from shattering memories when she moved to Shakespeare, Arkansas. Now cleaning houses pays her bills. Working out helps her heal. Still Read more...

My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
October 3, 2006


Werewolves, vampires, witches, voodoo, Elvis—and weddings

An "ordinary" wedding can get crazy enough, so can you imagine what happens when otherworldly creatures are involved? Nine of the hottest authors of paranormal fiction answer that Read more...

Grave Sight
October 1, 2006


Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. The way Harper sees it, she's providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living—but Read more...

Grave Surprise
September 26, 2006


Charlaine Harris is already a star and a New York Times bestseller with her vampire mysteries starring Sookie Stackhouse and her Lily Bard mysteries. This second installment to her new supernatural mystery series Read more...

Definitely Dead
(A Southern Vampire Novel #6)
May 2, 2006


The new Sookie Stackhouse novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Dead as a Doornail.

Spiked with a "frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy" (Publishers Weekly), this "deliciously fiendish...increasingly riotous series" Read more...

Dead as a Doornail
(A Southern Vampire Novel #5)
April 25, 2006


When Sookie's brother Jason's eyes start to change, she knows he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly Read more...

Shakespeare's Landlord
(A Lily Bard Mystery #1)
November 1, 2005

To Lily Bard, the sleepy town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, was the perfect place to hide from the violence that nearly destroyed her life years before. Today Read more...

Grave Sight
October 4, 2005


Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who's passed, and share their very last moment. The way Read more...

Dead as a Doornail
(A Southern Vampire Mystery)
May 1, 2005


When Sookie's brother Jason's eyes start to change, she knows he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly Read more...

Dead to the World
(A Southern Vampire Mystery)
May 1, 2005


When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn't just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn't a clue who he is, Read more...

Shakespeare's Counselor
(A Lily Bard Mystery)
February 1, 2005


Lily Bard has joined a group therapy session, determined to finally face her past. It sounds positively enlightening, until the murder of a fellow member sends a warning. But who Read more...

Bite
January 31, 2005


A never-before-published Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story from New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. A brand-new story from New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris, featuring the much- loved Read more...

Night's Edge
October 1, 2004

Dead to the World
(A Southern Vampire Mystery)
May 1, 2004


Sookie Stackhouse is a small-town cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's pretty. She does her job well. She keeps to herself and has only a few close friends because not Read more...

Poppy Done to Death
July 28, 2003

Club Dead
(Southern Vampires, Book 3)
May 1, 2003

Last Scene Alive
August 1, 2002


In the first installment of the Aurora Teagarden series, Real Murders, the small town of Lawrenceton, Georgia, was beset by a series of horrific murders. Librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden teamed Read more...

Living Dead In Dallas
(Southern Vampires, Book 2)
April 1, 2002

Shakespeare's Counselor
November 1, 2001

Dead Until Dark
(Southern Vampires, Book 1)
May 1, 2001


Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much. Not because she's not pretty. She is. It's just that, Read more...