Sookie Stackhouse im Mai

Mit "Book Lust To Go" wurde ich heute Nachmittag fertig - ich habe die letzten Seiten begeistert verschlungen. Ich selbst kannte nur wenige der vorgestellten Bücher, aber die waren allesamt lesenswert. Gut, ich könnte ein eigenes Buch mit Vorschlägen schreiben - aber das kann ja ein weiteres meiner Projekte werden.

Heute habe ich jedenfalls mit einem Kurzgeschichten-Band in der Sookie Stackhouse-Serie begonnen, nämlich mit diesem hier:

Charlaine HARRIS
A Touch of Dead

Stories included into the Book:
 "Fairy Dust" from Powers of Detection (October 2004)
 "One Word Answer" from Bite (December 2004)

 "Dracula Night" from Many Bloody Returns (September 2007)
 "Lucky" from Unusual Suspects (December 2008)

 "Gift Wrap" from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (October 2008)

Fairy Dust

Fairy Dust is a short story and extension of The Southern Vampire Mysteries. Published in Powers of Detection. It introduces another Sookie fairy cousin Claude, and the deceased third triplet Claudette. Claude and Claudine are recurring characters in later books of the series.
 Plot summary
In Fairy Dust, Sookie is working at Merlottes when Claudine the fairy comes in and asks Sookie to read the minds of some human guests of her brother Claude, who is also a fairy. Later, at Claude and Claudine's home in Monroe, she finds three people tied up in the house. Everyone involved (except Claudine) is associated with Hooligans, an exotic dancing establishment. Claude, who dances, tells Sookie that they believe that one of the people murdered their triplet Claudette while she was working at the club earlier that night. Claude explains that Claudette came to her siblings in spirit form to tell them of her death. Using her telepathy, Sookie interviews each suspect to discover the guilty party.
 Characters Main characters Sookie Stackhouse: Human, telepath and barmaid of a local bar.
 Recurring characters Bill Compton: Vampire and Sookie’s former boyfriend.
 Non-recurring characters Ben Simpson: A blond man that works at Hooligans as an exotic dancer. He explains that his stage name Barry Barber and that he enjoys shaving clients. Had a relationship with Claudette but was angry with her because she told him that he was inadequate in bed.
 Rita Child: Current owner of Hooligans. Disliked Claudette.
 Jeff Pocket: Bouncer at Hooligans. Former lover of Claude, he hated Claudette for telling Claude to end the relationship with him.

Dracula Night

Dracula Night is a short story and extension of The Southern Vampire Mysteries. Published in Many Bloody Returns. This story does not affect the storylines in the Southern Vampires novels in any way.
 Plot summary
Eric's vampire bar, Fangtasia, throws a party each year for the vampire observance of Dracula Night, in honor of the infamous Count Dracula. According to legend, the Count will choose one lucky party from all over the world to grace with his presence. The book characters are amused by Eric's childlike hope that the Count will appear at his party, just like Linus of the Peanuts comic hopes in vain to greet the Great Pumpkin.