Best Werewolf & Shifter Mysteries Books
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1. Fool Moon (Dresden Files)
Author: by Jim Butcher
Published at: Roc; Reprint edition (January 1, 2001)
ISBN: 978-0451458124
One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves,(Cinescape) the Dresden Files have become synonymous with action-packed urban fantasy and nonstop fun. Fool Moon continues the adventures of Jim Butcher’s most famousand infamousreluctant hero You’d think there’d be a little more action for the only professional wizard listed in the Chicago phone book.
But lately, Harry Dresden hasn’t been able to dredge up any kind of work: magical, mundane, or menial. Just when it looks like he can’t afford his next meal, a murder comes along that requires his particular brand of supernatural expertise.
There’s a brutally mutilated corpse, and monstrous animal markings at the scene. Not to mention that the killing took place on the night of a full moon. Harry knows exactly where this case is headed. Take three guessesand the first two don’t count…
2. 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.
3. Full Dark, No Stars
Author: by Stephen King
Published at: Scribner; Reprint edition (June 12, 2018)
ISBN: 978-1501197949
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, four disturbing, fascinating (The Washington Post) novellasincluding the story 1922, a Netflix original filmthat explore the dark side of human nature. The pages practically turn themselves (USA TODAY) in Full Dark, No Stars, an unforgettable collection centered around the theme of retribution.
In 1922, a violence awakens inside a man when his wife proposes selling off the family homestead, setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness. In Big Driver, a mystery writer is brutally assaulted by a stranger along a Massachusetts back road and plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself.
In Fair Extension, making a deal with the devil not only saves a man from terminal illness but also provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. In A Good Marriage, the trust forged by more than twenty years of matrimony is irrevocably shattered when a woman makes a chance discovery leading to the horrifying implications of just who her husband really is.
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. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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…
12. 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.
13. Dire Wolf of the Quapaw: a Jubal Smoak Mystery (Jubal Smoak Mysteries)
Author: by Phil Truman
Published at: Independently published (December 12, 2018)
ISBN: 978-1790530410
Winner 2019 Will Rogers Medallion AwardHe’s been hot on an outlaw’s trail for months. But deep in Native American territory, he’s no longer sure who’s innocent and who’s a monsterQuapaw tribal lands, new State of Oklahoma, 1910.Greenhorn Deputy U.S. Marshal Jubal Smoak knows he can either lay down the law or get stampeded.
So after the gruesome murder of a young family, he relentlessly pursues the ruthless outlaw who gave him a bullet in the back. Trailing the man for months, he refuses to be put off the scent by foolish rumors of a mythical Native American monster.
Hunting his suspect through snow-covered trails, he learns the grisly string of deaths have also ravaged neighboring ranches. But when he gets a closer look at the mutilated carcasses and massive paw prints, he worries this case isn’t as cut and dried as he thought.
Can Smoak end the slaughter before more innocent lives are lost? Dire Wolf of the Quapaw is the first book in the dark Jubal Smoak Western mystery series. If you like frontier settings, gritty characters, and Native American myths, then you’ll love Phil Truman’s twisted tale.
14. Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood)
Author: by Charlaine Harris
Published at: Ace; Media tie-in edition (March 29, 2011)
ISBN: 978-0441020157
In the tenth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling seriesthe inspiration for the HBO original series True BloodSookie Stackhouse learns that not even her psychic abilities can help her solve all the problems in Bon Temps, Louisiana… After enduring torture and the loss of loved ones during the brief but deadly Fae War, Sookie Stackhouse is hurt and she’s mad.
Just about the only bright spot in her life is the love she thinks she feels for vampire Eric Northman. But he’s under scrutiny by the new vampire king because of their relationship. And as the political implications of the shifters’ coming-out are beginning to be felt, Sookie’s connection to one particular Were draws her into the dangerous debate.
Also, unknown to her, though the doors to Faery have been closed, there are still some fae on the human sideand one of them is angry at Sookie.Very, very angry.
15. Blue Moon (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 8)
Author: by Laurell K. Hamilton
Published at: Berkley (September 24, 2002)
ISBN: 978-0515134452
The Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter backlist lights up the night. In her eighth adventure, Anita Blake can’t turn her back on a former lover during the full moon. Especially since he’s behind bars-and he’s a werewolf…
16. Dead And Gone (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood, Book 9)
Author: by Charlaine Harris
Published at: Ace; Reprint edition (April 6, 2010)
ISBN: 978-0441018512
The werewolves and shifters come out of the closet and throw the small town of Bon Temps into a tailspin in the ninth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse seriesthe inspiration for the HBO original series True Blood.
Except for cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, knew little about vampsand nothing about Weres.Until now. The Weres and shifters have finally revealed their existence to the ordinary world, and the backlash may have claimed the life of someone Sookie knew.
But her determination to find out who is responsible for the murder is put aside in the face of a far greater danger. A race of unhuman beingsolder, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolvesis preparing for war.
And Sookie will find herself an all-too-human pawn in their battle…
