Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-townLouisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much - notbecause she's not pretty - she's a very cute bubbly blonde - or notinterested in a social life. She really is . . . but Sookie's got a bit ofa disability. She can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable.And then along
comes Bill: he's tall, he's dark and he's handsome - andSookie can't 'hear' a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guyshe's been waiting all her life for.But Bill has a disability of his own: he's fussy about his food, hedoesn't like suntans and he's never around during the day . . . Yep,Bill's a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd,with a reputation for trouble - of the murderous kind.And then one of Sookie's colleagues at the bar is killed, and it'sbeginning to look like Sookie might be the next victim . . .