• Dead Until Dark

  • Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #1
  • By: Charlaine Harris
  • Narrated by: Johanna Parker
  • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (12,394 ratings)

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Dead Until Dark

By: Charlaine Harris
Narrated by: Johanna Parker
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Publisher's summary

Vampires have officially "come out of the coffin", and Miss Sookie can't wait for one to come her way.

Anthony Award-winner Charlaine Harris' New York Times and USA Today best-selling Sookie Stackhouse novels entice countless fans with an irresistible mixture of vampire romance, beguiling mystery, and old-fashioned Southern charm.

Listen to more titles in the Sookie Stackhouse series.
©2007 Charlaine Harris (P)2007 Recorded Books, LLC

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"An author of rare talents." ( Publishers Weekly)

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love it!

absolutely loved it!!! now on to the next one! Living Dead in Dallas.. HELL YEAH!

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Fantastic classic series

I love Sookie and her world. Love rereading this series as well. This first installment sets to stage perfectly. Also, kudos to Johanna Parker’s narration.

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First of a decent supernatural series

It’s been so many years since I first read this that I don’t know where I stashed the book! So, I got the audio. This one’s mostly pre cellphones. And there’s been so many vampire and supernatural books written since, that I think we’re all a bit jaded.
Sookie Stackhouse series (Dead Until Dark 2001) is one of the early and better ones. Of course, for me, the Anita Blake series (Guilty Pleasures 1993) will remain my standard for kicka$$ and best of supernatural.
If you like laid back characters and only references to s-e-x, this series is a good choice.
Parker does an ok job of narration.

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Johanna Parker makes this book

The narrator, Johanna Parker, makes this book a million times better than it could be. Even if you don't care for the story, the reading is amazing. She does voices for every different person, and she even barks! I will be happy to listen to other books that she has narrated.

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Good

I first read this series years ago. I saw the TV show. Now trying the audio book. The narration is okay. I think Inwould like it better if there was a little more distinction between voices and a little more energy.

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Amazing

it has been forever since I've read the series I'm really glad to get the chance to read it from start to finish

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adore these books!!

I read them when they first came out. Listened to them all when the TV show was on. Revisiting now!

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Loved it!

I loved everything about this book. It held my attention from beginning to end. Can't wait to start book 2.

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My favorite series ever!

This is a great version of this book, the narrator does a fantastic job with all the characters. I have been listening to this series on my commute to and from work and I am actually looking forward to sitting in traffic just so I can listen!

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Come Meet Sookie

Unlike the Trueblood tv series, this book series is actually amazing. Johanna Parker is an amazing narrator, and sounds very similar to what I had always imagined Sookie Stackhouse would have sounded if she were real. I loved getting to meet Sookie and the first characters through her eyes. I truly enjoyed the world that Charlaine Harris created for us in little nowhere Louisiana!

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