Living Dead in Dallas
core novel 2002 The Southern Vampire Mysteries
Record
| First published | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.96 (264,953 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780441009237 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The second Southern Vampire Mysteries novel opens with telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse making a grim discovery: the body of her friend and coworker Lafayette in the back seat of a car belonging to local detective Andy Bellefleur. Before she can dwell long on the killing, vampire leader Eric Northman and Sookie's boyfriend Bill Compton bring her another job, this time recruited by the vampires of Dallas, led by Stan Davis, to help locate a missing member of their community named Farrell who has been gone for five days. Sookie agrees to lend her telepathic abilities to the search on one condition: any humans found responsible must face human justice rather than vampire retribution.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Southern Vampire Mysteries
- Series: The Southern Vampire Mysteries core; position 2 of 13 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Charlaine Harris
Notes
- From the series record (The Southern Vampire Mysteries): Also known as the Sookie Stackhouse novels; the basis for the television series True Blood.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Southern Vampire Mysteries: position 2 of 13: previous Dead until Dark (2001) · next Club Dead (2003)
Sources
← The Southern Vampire Mysteries dossier · All universes
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