Book Review: A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris

Robot and Vamps blog reviews 'Touch of Dead"

Touch of Dead I was so very excited when A Touch of Dead showed up on my doorstep! I have been looking forward to this book for quite some time now and it is always nice to get a Sookie fix between books. I don’t think I have made a secret of the fact that I love the Sookie Stackhouse series. It was one of the first series’ I read when I started reading avidly again.

A Touch of Dead consists of 5 short stories that Mrs. Harris has written over the years in different anthologies. It is nice to have them all in one place and to tell the truth I hadn’t read 3 of the 5 so it was mostly new to me.

Fairy Dust takes place early in the series just after Dead to the World and sheds some light on how Claudette was killed. Claudette is Claude and Claudine’s deceased sister. Sookie has had previous dealings with Claude and Claudine and they call upon her talent to help them find out who murdered their sister. Sort of a fairy “who done it”. Fairy Dust was originally published in Powers of Detection.

In the short story Dracula Night, Eric is all a fuss about having the perfect birthday party for the Prince of Darkness at Fangtasia. It is said that Vlad (Dracula) visits a different party every year on his birthday and Eric is just positive that it is his turn to host the Prince. Sookie is invited to the event and of course trouble ensues. Can poor Sookie go anywhere and not run into trouble? Dracula Night was published in Many Bloody Returns and occurs before Dead as a Doornail.

In One Word Answer we find out how Hadley (Sookie’s cousin) died. Sookie and Bubba (who is actually Elvis. Yes, the King.) are out raking leaves in the dark when a limo pulls up to Sookie’s house. Mr. Cataliades (supernatural attorney) has come to inform Sookie of Hadley’s death and also to inform her that she is the only heir to Hadley’s estate. But there is more to Hadley’s death than meets the eye and whether she wants to or not, Sookie will get to the bottom of it. The events in One Word

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