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Dead in Dixie (2003) is the first Fantasy omnibus in the Southern Vampire series. This volume contains Dead Until Dark,Living Dead in Dallas and Club Dead.

Dead Until Dark (2001) is the first novel in this series. Sookie does a little dance step from joy before she grabs her pad and heads over to the vampire's table. He is pale, of course, but quite handsome. He asks, in cool, clear tones, for a bottle of synthetic blood, but has to settle for red wine; Sam Merlotte, the bar's owner, had ordered synthetic blood, but hasn't received the shipment.

As she is serving the vampire, Mack Rattray makes one of his usual comments about Crazy Sookie. When Mack and his wife Denise had first come into the bar, Sookie had rudely listened to their thoughts (she had been very bored that night) and she knew more about them than anyone else in town. She hadn't told anyone what she knew, but their thoughts gave her a very low opinion of the pair. Then, too, their behavior hadn't done anything to make her think more highly of them.

When the Rattrays move over to the vampire's table, Sookie comments on their manners to Arlene, another waitress. Arlene hadn't yet caught on to the new guy being a vampire, but Sookie sets her straight. Denise apparently already knew that he was a vamp, for she sat there showing off her neck to the guy.

Then Jason, Sookie's brother, comes into the bar. After hugging her, he checks out the bar to see who's available. He has his eyes on DeeAnne, but she has come in with a trucker. No matter, the other women in the bar made not-so-subtle efforts to attract his attention.

After a while, Sookie looks back at the table with the vampire and the Rattrays and notices an avid expression of Mack's face. She listens to his thoughts for a while and learns that Mack had been in jail for vampire draining. Usually draining is fatal to the vampires and, even if they survive, it takes twenty years to recover (according to what Sookie had heard on Oprah).

Living Dead in Dallas (2002) is the second novel in this series. Andy Bellefleur is three sheets to the wind at Merlotte's Bar and Grill. Since he doesn't often get drunk, Sookie listens to his thoughts and regrets it. Andy had to arrest a man for assaulting a ten year old neighbor; now the girl is in the hospital, the man in jail, and Andy is drowning his memories. Sookie gives him a free drink and calls his sister Portia.

Andy leaves his car in the parking lot and the next morning Sookie discovers a body in it when she comes to work. Lafayette Reynold, the bar's late shift cook, is sprawled dead in the back seat. Since the seat is not soaked in blood, the county police assume that he had been killed elsewhere and then placed in the car.

That night, Bill Compton informs Sookie that they have been summoned to the Fangtasia bar for an assignment. Sookie has agreed to work for the Vampire Area 5 Sheriff, Eric Northman, and he has temporarily traded their services to the Area 6 Sheriff. Sookie and Bill are to fly to Dallas so that she can read the minds of some humans; Bill is going along as her manager and bodyguard.

Sookie takes her first airplane ride on a commercial jet to Dallas and Bill is shipped in his coffin on Anubis Air. While Bill's coffin is being unloaded, a priest comes up to Sookie and talks to her. She responds politely, but something makes her suspicious. Then he grabs her and tries to drag her through a door, but Bill rescues her.

After Sookie and Bill reach their hotel, Sookie notices that the bellboy is telepathic, at about the same level of development that she had reached as a teenager. She doesn't mention her discovery to Bill, for Barry is obviously uncomfortable around vampires. Sookie wonders why he is working in a vampire hotel.

Club Dead (2003) is the third novel in this series. Bill Compton leaves town after hiding his database files and computer system in Sookie Stackhouse's closet. He tells Sookie that he is going to Seattle, but she knows that he is lying. Then Bubba shows up sitting on her front porch swing.

Bubba says that Eric has sent him to guard her, but doesn't know why. Sookie is on her way to work, but decides that Bubba can't go into the bar area; after all, he is too well known to just sit at a table. Bubba refuses to stay in the car in the back parking lot since he couldn't know when she is threatened. They finally agree that Bubba can sit in the office while Sookie is working.

As Sookie goes into the building to get Sam's permission, a Were gang member grabs her and then Bubba crushes his throat. After a bit of confusion involving Kevin -- a local cop -- Sookie, Sam and Bubba clean up the area and stash the body out of sight. Then Pam shows up later asking about Bubba.

Sookie learns that Bill has gone to Jackson after being summoned by Lorena, his master. He had called Fangtasia the previous night stating that he was coming back to Bon Temps to take care of some business, but he had never arrived. Eric has learned something about Bill's whereabouts from paid informants, but he can't just go searching for Bill since Mississippi is outside his jurisdiction. Indeed, it is a separate Vampire Kingdom.

Sookie can't read vampire minds, but she can go listen to the human minds in the Mississippi Kingdom. Eric has arranged for a Were named Alcide Herveaux to take her to Jackson and to provide an apartment. Alcide will also escort her in Josephine's, a vampire bar that caters to other supernaturals as well. The Weres, however, call the bar Club Dead.

The next installment in this omnibus sequence is Dead By Day.

Highly recommended for Harris fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of preternatural creatures, telepathic waitresses, and a bit of romance. Read and enjoy!

-Arthur W. Jordin


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Dead in Dixie Southern Vampire Mystery Bks 13 Charlaine Harris 9780739434710 Books Reviews

I was so glad to be able to complete my set in hardcover. The fact that this is 3 books in 1 takes up less shelf space too! Thanks!
The book was in Excellent condition and it made reading all three books very convenient!! It was a great price and arrived quickly. I will order from them again!
HUGE fan of the Sookie Stackhouse series and True Blood series as well, but the books are where it really counts! Great storytelling! ;-D
This was a great way to try out the first three novels of the series. They are a fun, relatively light read. Probably the only criticism I could give to any of Mrs. Harris's books is that she occasionally brushes over conversations among characters, but it is a forgivable flaw and her books paint an interesting picture of her world.
For those who come here by way of HBO's True Blood, this is sufficiently different to be worth reading. Entertaining trilogy of the first three Sookie Stackhouse tales in which she hooks up with Bill Compton, a vampire who is living among humans openly following the invention of a digestible blood substitute. It's a first person narrative from blond waitress Sookie, so all the subsidiary characters that complicated the TV series are more in the background. Some are even not much more than spear-carriers. A lot of fun and I look forward to reading some of the subsequent stories that the series never or barely tapped for plot ideas.
If you are new to the series this is the perfect way to get started, you get the first 3 books together and you won't be disappointed. I love Sookie, and I have to say I have always been partial to Eric, and the rest of the characters, and this book has been on my re-read list for many years. There is romance, action, suspense and mystery and I could not put it down. Great deal.
This book contains 3 novels.... Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead. I'm not into vampire mysteries or vampire romances but I do like this author so I decided to try this series. I'm sure glad I did because it's so full of humor that I find myself laughing out loud. Sookie Stackhouse is the main character. She works in a bar and was a virgin until she met Vampire Bill. The humans think she's strange because she can read their minds (she's a telepath). She can read human minds anyway but not vampires since they are technically dead. I mean they don't breathe for heaven's sakes. But at least that makes it easier for her to sleep with him since she's not constantly listening to him perhaps being critical of her performance in bed. Bill is kind of an old fashioned vampire since he was born in the 1800's and died right after the civil war. Soon Sookie isn't just hanging with this vampire but with some of his friends. The other vampires can see where a telepath might come in handy and are soon sending her on a mission to Dallas to solve a problem there. Well, most girls would lose their cool about being around so many vampires and there is quite a bit....since they sometimes have to kill the bad guys. Oh, yeah, if you believe in vampires, you have to believe in other supernatural beings, like shapechangers, werewolves, witches, etc and soon they are also appearing in these books. Poor Sookie helps them all but for some reason she is the one who always winds up hurt at the end. But no reason to get worried since those vampires are real good at healing her. Once they even changed out her whole blood system...uh, this was to save her life and not because they were just feeding on her. This takes place in a small town in Louisiana and the people there pretty much don't seem astonished to find so many vamps or supes in their town. They are getting used to it. It all started when the Japanese invented a synthetic blood. That is when the vamps decided to go public and mainstream with humans. Instead of killing the humans they could drink this blood. Well, they do have a few little nips off the humans once in awhile but these humans are like groupies and want it. And lo and behold if there people called drainers who suck the blood out of vampires and sell it on the streets just like a drug dealer would. It's quite valuable as it can make you glow and bouncy for weeks at a time. Although the vamps try to mainstream, everyone must be slightly scared of them since most houses in their neighborhoods have for sale signs in the yard. So...how would you feel about a vampire, werewolf, shapeshifters for a neighbor....and how about that cat next door...is she really a cat? The author has a way with words and you will love these books and cheer Sookie on to more adventures with her unusual set of new friends. There's romance, mystery, humor and I intend reading all of them!
Dead in Dixie (2003) is the first Fantasy omnibus in the Southern Vampire series. This volume contains Dead Until Dark,Living Dead in Dallas and Club Dead.

Dead Until Dark (2001) is the first novel in this series. Sookie does a little dance step from joy before she grabs her pad and heads over to the vampire's table. He is pale, of course, but quite handsome. He asks, in cool, clear tones, for a bottle of synthetic blood, but has to settle for red wine; Sam Merlotte, the bar's owner, had ordered synthetic blood, but hasn't received the shipment.

As she is serving the vampire, Mack Rattray makes one of his usual comments about Crazy Sookie. When Mack and his wife Denise had first come into the bar, Sookie had rudely listened to their thoughts (she had been very bored that night) and she knew more about them than anyone else in town. She hadn't told anyone what she knew, but their thoughts gave her a very low opinion of the pair. Then, too, their behavior hadn't done anything to make her think more highly of them.

When the Rattrays move over to the vampire's table, Sookie comments on their manners to Arlene, another waitress. Arlene hadn't yet caught on to the new guy being a vampire, but Sookie sets her straight. Denise apparently already knew that he was a vamp, for she sat there showing off her neck to the guy.

Then Jason, Sookie's brother, comes into the bar. After hugging her, he checks out the bar to see who's available. He has his eyes on DeeAnne, but she has come in with a trucker. No matter, the other women in the bar made not-so-subtle efforts to attract his attention.

After a while, Sookie looks back at the table with the vampire and the Rattrays and notices an avid expression of Mack's face. She listens to his thoughts for a while and learns that Mack had been in jail for vampire draining. Usually draining is fatal to the vampires and, even if they survive, it takes twenty years to recover (according to what Sookie had heard on Oprah).

Living Dead in Dallas (2002) is the second novel in this series. Andy Bellefleur is three sheets to the wind at Merlotte's Bar and Grill. Since he doesn't often get drunk, Sookie listens to his thoughts and regrets it. Andy had to arrest a man for assaulting a ten year old neighbor; now the girl is in the hospital, the man in jail, and Andy is drowning his memories. Sookie gives him a free drink and calls his sister Portia.

Andy leaves his car in the parking lot and the next morning Sookie discovers a body in it when she comes to work. Lafayette Reynold, the bar's late shift cook, is sprawled dead in the back seat. Since the seat is not soaked in blood, the county police assume that he had been killed elsewhere and then placed in the car.

That night, Bill Compton informs Sookie that they have been summoned to the Fangtasia bar for an assignment. Sookie has agreed to work for the Vampire Area 5 Sheriff, Eric Northman, and he has temporarily traded their services to the Area 6 Sheriff. Sookie and Bill are to fly to Dallas so that she can read the minds of some humans; Bill is going along as her manager and bodyguard.

Sookie takes her first airplane ride on a commercial jet to Dallas and Bill is shipped in his coffin on Anubis Air. While Bill's coffin is being unloaded, a priest comes up to Sookie and talks to her. She responds politely, but something makes her suspicious. Then he grabs her and tries to drag her through a door, but Bill rescues her.

After Sookie and Bill reach their hotel, Sookie notices that the bellboy is telepathic, at about the same level of development that she had reached as a teenager. She doesn't mention her discovery to Bill, for Barry is obviously uncomfortable around vampires. Sookie wonders why he is working in a vampire hotel.

Club Dead (2003) is the third novel in this series. Bill Compton leaves town after hiding his database files and computer system in Sookie Stackhouse's closet. He tells Sookie that he is going to Seattle, but she knows that he is lying. Then Bubba shows up sitting on her front porch swing.

Bubba says that Eric has sent him to guard her, but doesn't know why. Sookie is on her way to work, but decides that Bubba can't go into the bar area; after all, he is too well known to just sit at a table. Bubba refuses to stay in the car in the back parking lot since he couldn't know when she is threatened. They finally agree that Bubba can sit in the office while Sookie is working.

As Sookie goes into the building to get Sam's permission, a Were gang member grabs her and then Bubba crushes his throat. After a bit of confusion involving Kevin -- a local cop -- Sookie, Sam and Bubba clean up the area and stash the body out of sight. Then Pam shows up later asking about Bubba.

Sookie learns that Bill has gone to Jackson after being summoned by Lorena, his master. He had called Fangtasia the previous night stating that he was coming back to Bon Temps to take care of some business, but he had never arrived. Eric has learned something about Bill's whereabouts from paid informants, but he can't just go searching for Bill since Mississippi is outside his jurisdiction. Indeed, it is a separate Vampire Kingdom.

Sookie can't read vampire minds, but she can go listen to the human minds in the Mississippi Kingdom. Eric has arranged for a Were named Alcide Herveaux to take her to Jackson and to provide an apartment. Alcide will also escort her in Josephine's, a vampire bar that caters to other supernaturals as well. The Weres, however, call the bar Club Dead.

The next installment in this omnibus sequence is Dead By Day.

Highly recommended for Harris fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of preternatural creatures, telepathic waitresses, and a bit of romance. Read and enjoy!

-Arthur W. Jordin