Best Vampire Mysteries Books
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1. Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 1)
Author: by Charlaine Harris
Published at: Ace Books (May 1, 2001)
ISBN: 978-0441008537
Sink your teeth into the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse seriesthe books that gave life to the Dead and inspired the HBO original series True Blood. Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Bon Temps, Louisiana.
She’s quiet, doesn’t get out much, and tends to mind her own businessexcept when it comes to her disability. Sookie can read minds. And that doesn’t make her too dateable. Then along comes Bill Compton. He’s tall, dark, handsomeand Sookie can’t hear a word he’s thinking.
He’s exactly the type of guy she’s been waiting for all her life… But Bill has a disability of his own: he’s a vampire with a bad reputation. And when a string of murders hits Bon Tempsalong with a gang of truly nasty bloodsuckers looking for BillSookie starts to wonder if having a vampire for a boyfriend is such a bright idea.
2. The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Timeless Classics, 2)
Author: by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Published at: Rock Point (October 8, 2019)
ISBN: 978-1631066443
Part of the elegant Timeless Classics series, The Complete Sherlock Holmes is comprised of 4 full-length novels and 56 short stories featuring the world’s most famous pipe-smoking detective. For Sherlock Holmes fans worldwide, this stunning hardcover edition is perfect for gift giving.
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between the years 1867 and 1927, the legendary Sherlock Holmes employed his mastery of deductive reasoning and expert sleuthing to solve an array of complex and harrowing cases. From his home221B Baker Street in Londonthe legendary Sherlock Holmes (accompanied by his loyal companion and chronicler, Dr. Watson) baffled policemen and became famous worldwide for his remarkable observations and even more eccentric habits.
Featuring a foreword from renowned Holmes scholar Daniel Stashower, (author of A Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes in America), The Complete Sherlock Holmes contains every known Sherlock Holmes tale ever written. From Holmes’ first appearance in A Study in Scarlet (1887) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (19011902), through the collection of stories in the The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, this deluxe edition boasts the entire Holmes catalogue.
3. Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross, 7)
Author: by James Patterson
Published at: Grand Central Publishing; 1st U.S. Paperback Printing October 2002 edition (October 1, 2002)
ISBN: 978-0446611213
Detective Alex Cross must confront his most terrifying nemesis ever- and his own deepest fears- in this electrifying thriller from the world’s #1 bestselling writer.D.C. Detective Alex Cross has seen a lot of crime scenes. But even he is appalled by the gruesome murders of two joggers in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park-killings that look more like the work of savage beasts than humans.
Local police are horrified and even the FBI is baffled. Then, as Cross is called in to take on the case, the carnage takes off, leaving a trail of bodies across America and sweeping him to Savannah, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Los Angeles as his nemesis, the merciless criminal known as the Mastermind, stalks him, taunts him, and once again, threatens everything he holds dear…
4. Dead Ever After (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood)
Author: by Charlaine Harris
Published at: Ace; Reissue edition (March 25, 2014)
ISBN: 978-0425256398
THE FINAL NOVEL IN THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SOOKIE STACKHOUSE SERIESthe inspiration for the HBO original series True Blood. When a shocking murder rocks the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, psychic cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse learns that she has more than one enemy waiting to get vengeance for the past.
Beacuse nothing is ever clear-cut in Bon Temps. What passes for truth is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough…
5. Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 1)
Author: by Laurell K. Hamilton
Published at: Berkley (September 24, 2002)
ISBN: 978-0515134490
Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache(Diana Gabaldon).Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other…
Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fearher undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy…
What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.USA Today
6. Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 12)
Author: by Charlaine Harris
Published at: Ace; Reissue edition (March 26, 2013)
ISBN: 978-0425256381
In the penultimate novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling seriesthe inspiration for the HBO original series True BloodSookie Stackhouse must work with her first love to clear her current undead flame of murder… Felipe de Castro, the vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), is in town.
It’s the worst possible time for a human body to show up in Eric Northman’s front yardespecially the body of a woman whose blood he just drank. Now it’s up to Sookie and Bill Compton, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder.
Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl’s fate has nothing to do with her.But she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who has set out to make Sookie’s world come crashing down.
7. BAKEMONOGATARI, Part 1: Monster Tale
Author: by NISIOISIN
Published at: Vertical; Illustrated edition (December 20, 2016)
ISBN: 978-1942993889
There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess.
As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is. So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humor.
So begins the legendary novel that kicked off the MONOGATARI series, whose anime adaptations have enjoyed international popularity and critical acclaim. This first of three parts introduces Senjogahara and Hachikuji, and fans of the blockbuster prequel KIZUMONOGATARI will be delighted to meet their favorite crazies again: the weirdly reliable narrator Araragi, class president among class presidents Hanekawa, shady problem-solver Oshino, and a certain pale, blonde former vampire.
8. Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 2)
Author: by Charlaine Harris
Published at: Ace Books (March 26, 2002)
ISBN: 978-0441009237
The second novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s addictively entertaining(Locus) Sookie Stackhouse seriesthe inspiration for the HBO original series True Blood. Even though Sookie has her own vampire to look out for herher red-hot, cold-blooded boyfriend, Bill Comptonshe has to admit that the bloodsuckers did save her life.
So when one of the local Undead asks the cocktail waitress for a favor, she feels like she owes them. Soon, Sookie’s in Dallas using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She’s supposed to interview certain humans involved.
There’s just one condition: The vampires must promise to behaveand let the humans go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly…
9. Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 11)
Author: by Charlaine Harris
Published at: Ace; Reprint edition (March 27, 2012)
ISBN: 978-1937007355
Caught up in the politics of the vampire world, psychic Sookie Stackhouse learns that she is as much of a pawn as any ordinary human in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling seriesthe inspiration for the HBO original series True Blood.
With her knack for being in trouble’s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte’s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover, Eric Northman, and his child Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master.
Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plotwhich is much more complicated than she knows…
10. Dead Witch Walking
Author: by Kim Harrison
Harper Voyager
416 pages
7.1 ounces
It isn’t easy to write a protagonist that blends the best qualities of Anita Blake and Stephanie Plum, but Kim Harrison carries it off with style.This is a fun book!Read it! Jim Butcher, #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorIn the Hollows, the vampires come out to play and it’s always witching hour.
The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison’s Hollows series! All the creatures of the night gather in the Hollows of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party …And to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imaginingand it’s Rachel Morgan’s job to keep that world civilized.
A bounty hunter and a witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she’ll bring ’em back alive, dead …Or undead.
11. BAKEMONOGATARI, Part 3: Monster Tale
Author: by NISIOISIN
Published at: Vertical; Illustrated edition (April 25, 2017)
ISBN: 978-1942993902
A class president among class presidents, a bespectacled model student who soars to the top of honors lists without fail, Tsubasa Hanekawa also happens to be a decent human being. True, she does have a habit of making single-minded assumptions, but they come from a good place and turn out to be fortuitous as often as not.
Loser extraordinaire Koyomi Araragi owes her his post of class vice president and a more significant debt of gratitude for her unstinting support during the darkest spring break of his life. All of it has blinded him to the possibility that his saintly classmate’s family situation might be no less adverse than that of his other lady friends.
Thus, at last, we face Hanekawa’s unlikely aberration in Tsubasa Catthe concluding part of the legendary novel that captured the sensibilities of a new generation in the aught years and spawned an animated series that has won international popularity and acclaimbefore the story continues with a Fake Tale…
12. Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 3)
Author: by Laurell K. Hamilton
Published at: Berkley (September 24, 2002)
ISBN: 978-0515134483
When a powerful centuries-old vampire hits Anita Blake’s town, a battle of the undead ensues.
13. All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood)
Author: by Charlaine Harris
Published at: Ace Books; 1st edition (March 25, 2008)
ISBN: 978-0441015818
Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is stuck in the middle of a vampire gathering on the verge of disaster in the seventh novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling seriesthe inspiration for the HBO original series True Blood. Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full with shapeshifter Quinna possible new man in her lifeand the upcoming central U.S.
Vampire Summit on the shores of Lake Michigan. Sookie’s job at the summit is to support Vampire Queen Sophie-Anne, whose power base was weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans. But Sookie is about to discover just how dangerous that job can be, as she is drawn further and further into the vampire world…
14. Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 3)
Author: by Charlaine Harris
Published at: Ace Books (April 29, 2003)
ISBN: 978-0441010516
Bon Temps’s psychic waitress takes a dangerous road trip in the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse seriesthe inspiration for the HBO original series True Blood. There’s only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with (at least voluntarily) and it’s Bill Compton.
But recently he’s been a little distantin another state, distant. Then his sinister and sexy boss Eric Northman tells Sookie where she might find him. Next thing she knows, she’s off to Jackson, Mississippi, to mingle with the under-underworld at Club Dead, a dangerous little haunt where the elite of vampire society can go to chill out and suck down some Type-O.
But when Sookie finally finds Billcaught in an act of serious betrayalshe’s not sure whether to save him… Or sharpen some stakes.
