This series has been watched in many countries in Europe and others countries including Mexico and Brazil. Each of the novels follow Sookie as she does her best to come up with solutions of mysteries involving werewolves, vampires and other super-natural creatures. Dead until Dark which is the first book in the series won the Best Paper-back Mystery Anthony Award in year 2001. Harris later created The Southern – Vampire Mysteries series which talks about telepathic – waitress known as Sookie Stackhouse who goes to work in a northern – Louisiana bar. She has stated that she has already finished with the story on her website.

The series’ fifth book Shakespeare’s Counselor’ was printed in year 2001 and it was followed by Dead Giveaway’ which is a short story printed in the Ellery – Queen Mystery – Magazine in December 2001. In year 1996, Harris wrote the first in Shakespeare series that featured cleaning woman detective Lily Bard and it was set in rural – Arkansas. With exceptions of short stories, she never resumed the series until year 1999. She wrote many books in the series before she began branching to other works in mid 1990s. It was a Best Book 1190 Agatha Awards nomination. It is after writing two stand alone mysteries that she began the light-hearted Aurora Teagarden novels with Real Murders. Career and LifeĬharlaine Harris birth place is Mississippi- Tunica area. She is well known for the series The Southern – Vampire Mysteries which is also referred to as The Sookie Stackhouse Novels. Her later novels have been in the genre of urban fantasy. A few years after, she began to write books. Although her early work mostly consisted of poems about teenage angst and ghosts, she later began play writing when she joined Rhodes College found in Memphis- Tennessee. Currently, she lives in southern – Arkansas with three children and her husband. She was raised and born in the area of Mississippi River Delta of United States. Promophobia: Taking the Mystery Out of Promoting Crime FictionĬharlaine Harris is a New – York Times best-selling author born Novemand for thirty years she has being writing mysteries.

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