num_pages: 326
description: Welcome to Bon Temps. It's just your average sleepy backwater town. You know the kind of place...a dime store, a trailer park, a diner, and a gang of newly 'out of the coffin' undead.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 this sort of 'disability' - she can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. But then along comes Bill. He's tall, dark, handsome - and Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting for all her life.But Bill has a problem of his own: he's a vampire. With a bad reputation. He hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, all suspected of - big surprise - murder. And when one of Sookie's co-workers is killed, she fears she's next . . .
language: English
title: Dead Until Dark
titlecomplete: Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)
characters: Sam Merlotte, Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton, Eric Northman, Tara Thornton, Pam Ravenscroft, Jason Stackhouse
genres: Paranormal, Fantasy, Mystery, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Vampires, Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 532461
places: Bon Temps, Louisiana, Louisiana
series: Sookie Stackhouse
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Paperback Original, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Dilys Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Compton Crook Award
publisher: Orbit