The sprawling plot unfolds as Sookie is pursued by demonic forces and framed for murder, while several supernatural suitors vie for her affection.

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The Sookie novels, which blend crime, romance and fantasy, attract readers of all three genres, who tend to be voracious book buyers and obsessive fans.

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Halloween is fun, and this former Sookie Stackhouse, Lara Croft, and Xena Warrior Princess has no right to take anyone to task for their Halloween spending habits.

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And his love for Sookie, a human woman, is a choice he has made, regardless of the scorn heaped upon him by the undead and the living alike.

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In the 1990s, she had the idea for the Sookie Stackhouse novels, which would take her signature protagonist, a working-class Southern woman with crime-solving abilities, and add a supernatural twist.

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Last week, a reader in Germany got an early copy of "Dead Ever After" and leaked the ending, which angered a vocal faction of fans who wanted Sookie to end up with a different character.

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