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In 1975, a small group of students gathers in an abandoned barn near San Francisco to indulge in drugs. When one of them commits a heinous act, he is sent to prison.

Marie Heaton's successful anesthesiology practice is derailed when a child dies under the mask. Faced with a major lawsuit, she must turn to a former lover for moral support.

A young girl has been abducted on Australia's Mornington Peninsula and Sergeant Ellen Destry takes the case in Inspector Hal Challis' absence.

Deemed an illegitimate child by her royal Polish family, Amandine is abandoned as a baby at a French convent. As she grows, Amandine struggles to accept her orphaned state.

Betrayed by her vampire beau, Sookie discovers a potential new lover in the devilishly handsome shapeshifter Quinn. But affairs of the heart must take a back seat to the summit.

Aurora "Roe" Teagarden unexpectedly inherits a house and a fortune when a fellow Real Murders Club member dies.

Sookie has just tied on her cocktail waitress apron for a night's work when a special report comes on the television. The time has come. The wereanimals have revealed themselves.

Because her mind-reading ability tends to spook people, most of Sookie's friends are of the not-exactly-human variety.

Finally settled with Viking vampire Eric, Sookie finds normalcy just as chaos surrounds her. Sookie's former lover Bill, her boss Sam, and even Eric are struggling with family problems.

Detective Sergeant Jack Burns and Aurora never got along, and now Jack's dead body has been dropped from a plane directly into Aurora's back yard.

Wedding fever has come to Bon Temps, Louisiana!

On returning home from a party, sleuthing librarian Aurora Teagarden of Georgia finds visiting niece Regina missing, Regina's husband slain with a hatchet, and their baby hidden under a bed.

The reader finds Sookie reeling from an explosive attack on the previous month's vampire summit. Many vampires were killed, including several of Sookie's friends.

Alison loves her husband and their three children. But the emptiness she feels is tied to her decision to run away with Marc, her best friend's man.

Ever since Harper Connelly was struck by lightning as a child, she's been able to see and hear the last memories of the dead.