Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels are the basis of the HBO hit series True Blood, a combination of Southern noir mystery and supernatural fantasy that has proved to be immensely popular with readers and viewers alike.
In the twelfth installment in the series, Sookie is trying to support her vampire lover, Eric, through the dangerous politics of the vampire world in the aftermath of the death of his rival Victor. Yet somehow her relationship with Eric is not as solid as Sookie thought it was. There's nothing big she can put her finger on, just a series of small, troubling incidents that don't add up to Sookie's way of reckoning.
But when a dead woman turns up on the lawn in front of Eric's house, in the middle of delicate negotiations with the vampire King of Louisiana, and it looks like someone is trying to frame Eric for murder, Sookie stands by her man and tries to figure out what is going on. One thing becomes increasingly clear: somebody with a very big grudge is messing up the lives of a lot of people who matter to Sookie. Somebody who seems to know an awful lot about her private business. Somebody who will stop at nothing to get what he or she wants.
Harris has indicated that the next Sookie Stackhouse book will be the last volume in the series. In Deadlocked she has already begun the process of winding up the various plot threads. Sookie daydreams about all the "happily ever afters" she'd like to wish for her friends --- but for herself, she really wonders, whether there will ever be a "happily ever after."
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