Sookie Stackhouse is a Small-Time Cocktail Waitress in Small-Town Louisiana. She's Quiet, Keeps to Herself, and Doesn't Get Out Much - Not Because She's Not Pretty - She's a Very Cute Bubbly Blonde - or Not Interested in a Social Life. She Really is ...But Sookie's Got a Bit of a 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 - and Sookie Can't 'Hear' a Word He's Thinking. He's Exactly the Type of Guy She's Been Waiting All Her Life For. but Bill Has a Disability of His Own He's Fussy About His Food, He Doesn'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's Beginning to Look Like Sookie Might Be the Next Victim ...