Книга: Charlaine Harris «Dead as a Doornail»

Dead as a Doornail

Серия: "TrueBlood"

Sookie's got just a month, before the next full moon, to find out who wants her brother dead - and to stop the fiend! Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She's a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life, albeit a bit complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life - but things just seem to happen to her and her friends. Now her brother Jason's eyes are starting to change: he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. She can deal with that, but her normal sisterly concern turns to cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population. She afraid not just because Jason's at risk, but because his new were-brethren suspect Jason may be the shooter. Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who's behind the attacks - unless the killer decides to find her first. The Sookie Stackhouse books are delightful Southern Gothic supernatural mysteries, starring...

Издательство: "Gollancz" (2009)

Формат: 130x200, 304 стр.

ISBN: 978-0-575-09105-4

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Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris Schulz
Born Charlaine Harris
November 25, 1951 (1951-11-25) (age 59)
Tunica, Mississippi, U.S.
Pen name Charlaine Harris
Genres Mystery fiction
charlaineharris.com

Charlaine Harris (born November 25, 1951) is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children.[1] Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She began to write books a few years later. Her later books have been in the urban fantasy genre. She is best known for The Southern Vampire Mysteries series.

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Life and career

Harris was born in Tunica, Mississippi. After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris began the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden books with Real Murders, a Best Novel 1990 nomination for the Agatha Awards. Harris wrote several books in the series before the mid-1990s when she began branching out into other works.[2] She did not resume the series until 1999, with the exception of one short story in a Murder, She Wrote anthology titled "Murder, They Wrote".

In 1996, she released the first in the Shakespeare series, set in rural Arkansas. Harris "lives in small-town Arkansas", according to a New York Times interview.[2] The fifth book in the series, Shakespeare's Counselor, was printed in fall 2001, followed by the short story "Dead Giveaway" published in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in December of the same year. Harris has stated on her website that she has finished with the series.

After Shakespeare, Harris created The Southern Vampire Mysteries series about a telepathic waitress named Sookie Stackhouse who works in a northern Louisiana bar.[2] The first book in the series, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001. Each book follows Sookie as she tries to solve mysteries involving vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures.[2] The series has been released in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Spain, Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Argentina, Poland, Brazil, Great Britain, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Portugal, Iceland, Czech Republic, Romania and Estonia.

Sookie Stackhouse has proven to be so popular that Alan Ball, creator of the HBO television series Six Feet Under, undertook the production of an HBO series based upon The Southern Vampire Mysteries.[3] He also wrote and directed the pilot episode for the series, True Blood, which premiered on September 7, 2008 on HBO.[4] Harris has written eleven novels in the series, and the television show is a hit for HBO.[2]

October 2005 marked the debut of Harris's new series entitled The Harper Connelly Mysteries, with the release of Grave Sight. The series is told by a young woman named Harper Connelly, who after being struck by lightning, is able to locate dead bodies and to see their last moments through the eyes of the deceased. In October 2010, it was announced Harper Connelly's series had been optioned for a television series named, "Grave Sight".

Professionally, Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League. She is a member of the board of Sisters in Crime, and alternates with Joan Hess as president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance.

In her personal life, Harris is married and the mother of three teenagers.[2] A former weightlifter and karate student,[5] she is an avid reader and cinemaphile. Harris resides in Magnolia, Arkansas, where she is the senior warden of St. James Episcopal Church.[2][6]

Bibliography

Aurora Teagarden Series

  1. Real Murders (1990)[7]
  2. A Bone to Pick (1992)[8]
  3. Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (1994)[9]
  4. The Julius House (1995)[10]
  5. Dead Over Heels (1996)[11]
    • "Deeply Dead" in Murder, They Wrote (1997)[12]
  6. A Fool And His Honey (1999)[13]
  7. Last Scene Alive (2002)[14]
  8. Poppy Done to Death (2003)[15]

Lily Bard (Shakespeare) Series

  1. Shakespeare's Landlord (1996)[16]
  2. Shakespeare's Champion (1997)[17]
  3. Shakespeare's Christmas (1998)[18]
  4. Shakespeare's Trollop (2000)[19]
  5. Shakespeare's Counselor (2001)[20]

Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) Series

  1. Dead Until Dark (2001)[21]
  2. Living Dead in Dallas (March 2002)[22]
  3. Club Dead (May 2003)[23]
  4. Dead to the World (May 2004)[24]
    • "Fairy Dust" in Powers of Detection (October 2004)[25]
    • "Dancers in the Dark" a novella in Night's Edge (October 2004)[26][27]
  5. Dead as a Doornail (May 2005)[28]
    • "One Word Answer" in Bite (2005)[29]
  6. Definitely Dead (May 2006)[30]
    • "Tacky" in My Big, Fat Supernatural Wedding (2006) - a Dahlia short story [27][31]
  7. All Together Dead (May 2007)[32]
    • "Dracula Night" in Many Bloody Returns (September 2007)[33]
    • "Lucky" in Unusual Suspects[34] (December 2008)
  8. From Dead to Worse (May 2008)[35]
    • "Gift Wrap" in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (October 2008)[36]
    • "Bacon" in Strange Brew (July 2009) - also makes an offhand reference to Jim Butcher's wizard, Harry Dresden; - a Dahlia short story [27]
  9. Dead and Gone (May 2009)[37]
    • "The Britlingens Go To Hell" in Must Love Hellhounds (September 2009)[27]
    • A Touch of Dead (October 2009) - A compilation of all the Sookie-centric short stories
    • "Dahlia Underground" in Crimes by Moonlight (April 2010) - takes place during All Together Dead - a Dahlia short story [27]
  10. Dead in the Family (May 2010)
    • "Two Blondes" in Death's Excellent Vacation (August 2010)
    • "A Very Vampire Christmas" in Glamour Magazine (December 2010) - a Dahlia short story [27][38]
    • "Dying for Daylight" (2011) - The First All New Video Game Written By Charlaine Harris Released By iPlay Games - Starring Dahlia [27][39]
  11. Dead Reckoning (May 2011)
    • "If I Had a Hammer" in Home Improvement: Undead Edition (August 2011)
    • "Small-Town Wedding" a novella in The Sookie Stackhouse Companion (August 2011) - an anthology with interviews, FAQ, recipes, and more [40]
    • "Death by Dahlia" in Down These Strange Streets (October/November 2011) - a Dahlia short story [27][41]
  12. "Deadlocked" (May 2012)

Harper Connelly Series

  1. Grave Sight (2005)[42]
  2. Grave Surprise (2006)[43]
  3. An Ice Cold Grave (2007)[44]
  4. Grave Secret (2009)[45]

Other/non-series

  • Sweet and Deadly (1981)[46] republished in UK as Dead Dog
  • A Secret Rage (1984)[47]
  • "An Evening With Al Gore" in Blood Lite (October 2008)[48]

As editor

  • Many Bloody Returns (September 2007) (co-editor with Toni LP Kelner)
  • Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (October 2008) (co-editor with Toni LP Kelner)
  • Crimes by Moonlight (April 2010)
  • Death's Excellent Vacation[49] (August 2010) (co-editor with Toni LP Kelner)
  • Home Improvement - Undead Edition (August 2011) (co-editor with Toni LP Kelner)

See also

Novels portal

Notes

  1. ^ Charlaine Harris- Biography & Interviews, retrieved on 2009-10-27.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Deborah Solomon, "Questions for Charlene Harris: Once Bitten: The writer talks about her 10th vampire novel and the hit TV series it inspired," New York Times Magazine, May 2, 2010, p. 18.
  3. ^ http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271%7C98313%7C1%7C,00.html
  4. ^ True Blood Creator Comic Coming Along With Some Surprises
  5. ^ "Charlaine Harris: Putting the Bite on Cozy Mysteries", retrieved on 2009-10-27.
  6. ^ Shepard, Martha Hunter (Fall 2007). "Charlaine Harris: Dead-On Author". Rhodes Magazine. Rhodes College. http://www.rhodes.edu/155_9930.asp. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
  7. ^ hardback ISBN 0-8027-5769-3, reprint 2007, paperback ISBN 978-04252187161992, UK paperback, ISBN 0-373-26104-7, 1991, paperback ISBN 0-7927-0752-4.
  8. ^ hardback ISBN 0-8027-1245-2, reprint 2008, paperback, ISBN 978-0425219799, 1992, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26136-5.
  9. ^ hardback ISBN 0-684-19643-3, reprint 2008, ISBN 978-0425220528, 1995, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26177-2.
  10. ^ hardback ISBN 0-684-19640-9, 1996, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26217-5.
  11. ^ hardback ISBN 0-684-80429-8, reprint 2008, paperback, ISBN 978-0425223031, 1998, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26260-4.
  12. ^ ISBN 1-57297-194-0.
  13. ^ (1999, hardback ISBN 0-312-20306-3, 2001, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26384-8.
  14. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-26246-9, reprint 2006, paperback, 978-0778323648, 2003, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26476-3.
  15. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-27764-4, 2004, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26504-2.
  16. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-14415-6, 1997, paperback ISBN 0-440-22418-7, 2005, paperback reprint ISBN 0-425-20686-6.
  17. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-17005-X, 1997, paperback ISBN 0-440-22421-7.
  18. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-19330-0, 2005, paperback ISBN 0-440-23499-9.
  19. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-26228-0, 2004, paperback ISBN 0-425-19699-2.
  20. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-27762-8, 2005, paperback ISBN 0-425-20114-7.
  21. ^ ISBN 0-441-00853-4.
  22. ^ ISBN 0-441-00923-9, 2009, hardcover ISBN 0-441-01673-1.
  23. ^ ISBN 0-441-01051-2.
  24. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01167-5, 2005, paperback ISBN 0-441-01218-3.
  25. ^ ISBN 0-441-01197-7.
  26. ^ ISBN 0-373-77010-3.
  27. ^ a b c d e f g h a Southern Vampire story without the character of Sookie Stackhouse
  28. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01279-5, April 2006, audio book ISBN 1-4193-3730-0, paperback ISBN 0-441-01333-3.
  29. ^ ISBN 0-515-13970-X.
  30. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01400-3, audio book ISBN 1-4193-9326-X.
  31. ^ paperback ISBN 0-312-34360-4.
  32. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01494-1.
  33. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01522-0.
  34. ^ December 2008, paperback ISBN 0-441-01637-5.
  35. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01589-4.
  36. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01633-2.
  37. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01715-0.
  38. ^ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charlaine-Harris-Official-Fan-Site/130129293663972 August 15, 2010, August 21, 2010, and November 16, 2010 Wall Posts
  39. ^ http://www.dyingfordaylight.com
  40. ^ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charlaine-Harris-Official-Fan-Site/130129293663972 September 11, 2010 Wall Post
  41. ^ http://www.charlaineharris.com/bibliography/bibliog-sookie.html
  42. ^ hardback Berkley, 2005, ISBN 0425205681; ISBN 978-0425205686.
  43. ^ hardback Berkley 2006, ISBN 0425212033; ISBN 978-0425212035.
  44. ^ hardback Berkley 2007, ISBN 0-425-21729-9; ISBN 978-0-4252-1729-0.
  45. ^ hardback Berkley, October 27, 2009, ISBN 0441018300; ISBN 978-0441018307.
  46. ^ hardback ISBN 0-395-30532-2, 1985, paperback ISBN 0-345-32101-4, 1982, UK hardback ISBN 0-7091-9700-4, UK paperback ISBN 0-263-74030-7.
  47. ^ hardback ISBN 0-395-35323-8, 1984, paperback ISBN 0-345-32102-2, 1984, UK hardback ISBN 0-7278-1079-0.
  48. ^ paperback ISBN 1-416-56783-6.
  49. ^ http://www.charlaineharris.com/bb/bb140.html

External links

v · The Southern Vampire Mysteries
Charlaine Harris
Novels
Dead Until Dark · Living Dead in Dallas · Club Dead · Dead to the World · Dead as a Doornail · Definitely Dead · All Together Dead · From Dead to Worse · Dead and Gone · Dead in the Family · Dead Reckoning · Deadlocked
Short stories
"Fairy Dust" · "Dancers in the Dark" · "One Word Answer" · "Dracula Night" · "Tacky" · "Gift Wrap" · "Bacon" · "Lucky" · "A Touch of Dead" · "Dahlia Underground" · "Two Blondes" · "Death by Dahlia" · "A Very Vampire Christmas" · "Small-Town Wedding" · "If I Had A Hammer"
Characters
Sookie Stackhouse  · Bill Compton  · Eric Northman  · Sam Merlotte  · Pam Ravenscroft  · Jason Stackhouse  · Alcide Herveaux  · Quinn · Niall Brigant  · Tara Thornton  · Dahlia Lynley-Chivers · Full list of characters
See also
True Blood · List of True Blood characters · Charlaine Harris
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Episodes
Season 1 · Season 2 · Season 3 · Season 4
Characters
Sookie Stackhouse · Bill Compton · Eric Northman · Alcide Herveaux · Sam Merlotte · Jason Stackhouse · Tara Thornton · Lafayette Reynolds · Pamela Swynford De Beaufort · Jessica Hamby
See also
The Southern Vampire Mysteries · "Bad Things" · Alan Ball · Charlaine Harris

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