Toujours plongée dans un tourbillon d'intrigues politiques, au sein desquelles s'agitent vampires et loup-garous, l'impétueuse Sookie vole au secours du séduisant Alcide tandis qu'un irrésistible vampire-pirate occupe son bar... Puis, quittant le fin fond de la Louisiane pour La Nouvelle-Orléans où l'appelle la reine des vampires, elle doit enquêter sur la mort de sa cousine qui entretenait des relations apparemment troubles avec la souveraine et dont l'héritage suscite bien des convoitises.
Charlaine Harris has been a published writer for over forty years. Her first two books were standalones, followed by a long sabbatical when she was having children. Then she began the Aurora Teagarden book, mysteries featuring a short librarian (eventually adapted for Hallmark movies). The darker Lily Bard books came next, about a house cleaner with a dark past and considerable fighting skills.
Tired of abiding by the mystery rules, Harris wrote a novel about a telepathic barmaid that took at least two years to sell. When the book was published, it turned into a best seller, and DEAD UNTIL DARK and the subsequent Sookie books were adapted in Alan Ball's "True Blood" series. At the same time, Harris began the Harper Connelly books. Harper can find the bones of the dead and see their last minute.
When those two series wound to a close, the next three books were about a mysterious town in Texas, called Midnight.
A change in publisher and editor led to Harris's novels about a female gunslinger in an alternate America, Lizbeth Rose. The Gunnie Rose books concluded with the sixth novel.