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Sookie Stackhouse is having a bad stretch in her life. We've all had them. Work isn't going badly, just not going wonderfully. The new hired help is too perky for words, and Sookie can't really get a handle on what she's thinking, which is unusual for her. Sookie's love life is not going well, either. She still hurts from the relationship with Bill, the first vampire in her life. She's also getting over Eric, who doesn't remember the wonderful part of their relationship and now thinks he owns her because he slept with her and shared blood with her. Eric has a lot of clout, none of which Sookie wants. Both these experiences make her very wary of Quinn, the new man in her life. He's a weretiger, and very attractive. But once bitten, as they say . . . Her cousin Hadley is dead. This isn't really rough on Sookie; they were never close and Hadley has been in New Orleans a lot lately, as the consort of the vampire queen of the city. But Sookie doesn't have much family left, and she does feel some obligation. Sookie is somewhat surprised to find out that she is Hadley's heir. This necessitates a trip to New Orleans, to clean out the apartment and settle the financial details. Then life begins to get interesting, in that Chinese curse kind of way. Two young werewolves attack Quinn and Sookie. This ends badly for the weres, but who sent them? A demon sent to fetch Sookie to New Orleans is found dead in her yard, sliced in half by a very sharp steel sword. Who killed Gladiola? And why? New Orleans is a wonderful town, but the political jockeying around a vampire wedding makes for some tense social situations. Sookie finds herself in the middle of this, and barely escapes with her life. She does have a knack for picking the winner, which will probably come in very handy in the future. DEFINITELY DEAD is the sixth book in the Sookie Stackhouse series. I really wish I'd read all of the first five before I got my hands on DEFINITELY DEAD. Now I'll have to hunt them down and start from the beginning. It's not that one needs to read them that way, it just makes for a better handle on the back-story, and a better grasp of the story arc that Harris is writing. I'd love to sit down with Charlaine Harris and Tanya Huff, and listen to them riff about the supernatural. Harris writes woo-woo and mystery with the best of them.
Reviewed by P. J. Coldren, May 2006
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