Publication Order of Sookie Stackhouse Companion Books
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion
2011
After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse
2013
Publication Order of Harper Connelly Books
Grave Sight
2005
Grave Surprise
2006
An Ice Cold Grave
2007
Grave Secret
2009
Publication Order of Midnight, Texas Books
Midnight Crossroad
2014
Day Shift
2015
Night Shift
2016
Publication Order of Gunnie Rose Books
An Easy Death
2018
A Longer Fall
2020
The Russian Cage
2021
The Serpent in Heaven
2022
All the Dead Shall Weep
2023
The Last Wizards’ Ball
2025
Publication Order of The Stronghold Books
Hold My Spellbook
2027
Publication Order of Cemetery Girl Books
The Pretenders (With: Christopher Golden)
2014
Inheritance (With: Christopher Golden)
2015
Haunted (With: Christopher Golden)
2018
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Sweet and Deadly / Dead Dog
1981
A Secret Rage
1984
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
A Touch of Dead
2009
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories
2017
Small Kingdoms and Other Stories
2019
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
Grave Sight: Part 1
2011
Grave Sight: Part 2
2011
Grave Sight: Part 3
2012
Grave Surprise
2016
About Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris is an American author of mysteries and urban fantasy, best known for the Sookie Stackhouse novels (also called The Southern Vampire Mysteries), which HBO adapted as the television series “True Blood”. Her other series include the Aurora Teagarden, Lily Bard, Harper Connelly, Midnight, Texas and Gunnie Rose books.
Harris was born on 25 November 1951 and grew up in Tunica, in the Mississippi Delta. She began writing plays while a student at Rhodes College in Memphis before turning to crime fiction with two standalone mysteries, “Sweet and Deadly” (1981) and “A Secret Rage” (1984). Her first series began with “Real Murders” (1990), an Agatha Award nominee, in which the Georgia librarian Aurora Teagarden belongs to a club of true crime enthusiasts. After a long gap she returned to the character with two further novels in 2016 and 2017, and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries has filmed the books with Candace Cameron Bure in the title role.
The Lily Bard series, about a cleaning lady turned detective in rural Arkansas, ran for five books from 1996 to 2001. “Dead Until Dark” (2001) then introduced Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in a northern Louisiana bar whose cases involve vampires, werewolves and other supernatural creatures. It won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery, and the series ran to thirteen novels, ending with “Dead Ever After” in 2013, with the supplementary “After Dead” published later that year. “True Blood” ran for seven seasons from 2008 to 2014.
The four Harper Connelly novels (2005 to 2009) follow a young woman who, after being struck by lightning, can locate dead bodies and see their final moments. The Midnight, Texas trilogy (2014 to 2016) is set in a small, nearly deserted town whose residents include a psychic and a vampire; NBC broadcast a television version for two seasons from 2017. With Christopher Golden she also wrote the Cemetery Girl graphic novels.
Her Gunnie Rose series, which began with “An Easy Death” in 2018, takes place in an alternate history in which the United States has broken into several countries, and follows the young gunslinger Lizbeth Rose. The sixth book, “The Last Wizards’ Ball”, appeared in 2025. “Hold My Spellbook”, the first book in a new fantasy series called The Stronghold, is announced for 2027. Harris lives in Texas.
