Sookie Stackhouse is an insignificant waitress in an insignificant town in Louisiana. She is quiet, withdrawn, and doesn't go out much. And it's not because she's not beautiful. She is. But because, well, Sookie has this "quirk," shall we say. She can read people's minds. And that doesn't make her a great date.
Until Bill shows up. He is tall, dark-haired, charming... and Sookie can't hear a single word of what he's thinking. He is exactly the type she has been waiting for her entire life...
But Bill has his own quirk: he is a vampire with a bad reputation, hanging out with a rather scary bunch of vampires, suspected of - how strange! - murder. And when one of Sookie's colleagues is killed, she fears she will be next...
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
