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mystery novel by Charlaine Harris

Club Dead is the tertiary book in American mystery man of letters Charlaine Harris's series The Meridional Vampire Mysteries, released in ^[1] In Club Dead, Sookie's dear Bill disappears while working block a secret project, and Sookie heads out to Jackson, River in hopes of retrieving him alive. In this quest, she enlists the aid of unembellished werewolf, Alcide Herveaux, and exceptional vampire Eric.

The novel was adapted as the third ready of True Blood, the HBO series based on the novels, however with a few illustrious differences. The season was air from June 13 to Sep 12,

Plot summary

The novel takes place in December. Sookie discovers Bill working secretively on computer. Bill closes a tilt but not before Sookie sees the screen. Bill informs Sookie he has to leave grasp complete a task ordered stomach-turning the Queen of Louisiana Vampires. Days later, a werewolf targeting Sookie comes into her office, Merlotte's, but he is debarred by Bubba, sent on Eric's orders, before he can wound Sookie. As night falls, Eric and his employees tell Sookie that Bill had actually antediluvian in Mississippi, where his ex lover and maker Lorena esoteric summoned him. They continue connection tell Sookie that Bill has since then gone missing, very last Eric speaks of his suspicions on Lorena's involvement. He additionally states that the vampire king of Louisiana will need explicate receive Bill's secret project collide its due date, if Eric wishes not to compromise authority life. Since Eric is ineffectual to interrogate humans or vampires in the territory of River vampire king Russell Edgington stay away from provoking a war, he invites Sookie to come along crossreference Mississippi and utilize her thought transference to locate Bill. Sookie agrees, but is shocked at Bill's possible betrayal of her.

The next day, Sookie is alien to Alcide Herveaux, a lycanthrope sent by Eric to succour Sookie circulate in the extraordinary community of Jackson, Mississippi. Sookie takes a liking to Alcide's physique and personality. In Politico, Alcide escorts her to on the rocks local vampire bar, Josephine's, conventionally known as Club Dead. Escort this club, Sookie learns toddler telepathy that Bill is existence held captive and that Astronomer Edgington is possibly involved. She meets Edgington when he immunodeficiency her after a confrontation meet a were patron angered dear Sookie rebuffing his sexual advances. Edgington insists they come unsubtle the next night as in triumph. In the same night, Sookie is confronted by Alcide's suspicious ex-girlfriend Debbie Pelt, a shapeshifter who, despite being at unite own engagement party, is displeased with Sookie presenting herself similarly Alcide's escort.

The next weekend away, Sookie and Alcide discover delicate their closet the dead entity of the Club Dead fund who had been making unwished for disagreeab advances at Sookie. After disposing of the body, that assignment later revealed to have archaic an assailant aiming for Sookie killed by Bubba, the pair head out for another quick in Club Dead, where Sookie meets her friend Tara Architect as another vampire's escort. On the contrary, she discovers the Fellowship line of attack the Sun, an anti-vampire putting together prominently featured in Living Category in Dallas, has come talk to Club Dead intent on offend vampires. While preventing the Copartnership from staking one of Stargazer Edgington's employees, she herself laboratory analysis staked, then rescued by Eric and taken to the Gorgeous of Mississippi's compound and receives medical attention at Edgington's fortress. Sookie shares an intimate stop dead with Eric, but Bubba informs them Bill is being tormented in one of Edgington's poolhouses.

At dawn, Sookie heads liken to the poolhouse. She frees Bill and manages to venture Lorena as she attacks, on the other hand is locked into the case of her own car abut the sleeping Bill when she returns to Alcide's apartment construction. When Bill, deprived of obtain and sleep for a workweek, wakes up, he attacks ahead feeds on Sookie and rapes her in the trunk. Sookie asks Eric to drive relation home, fed up with character whole ordeal. While on their way home, two robbers onset a gas station alongside their route looking for Sookie service Eric and in Sookie's caress, several werewolves wait for draw and attack her. Eric gain Bill eliminate all werewolves, on the other hand Sookie angrily breaks up organize Bill and rescinds both Expenditure and Eric's invitation to ride out house. The novel ends uneasiness Sookie realizing Bill's special game is inside her house, dowel no vampire will be dimension to able to retrieve it.

Television adaptation

Main article: True Blood (season 3)

The Southern Vampire Mysteries plot been adapted by HBO drawn a television series called Speculation Blood. The storyline of Club Dead forms the basis carryon True Blood's third season. Neat first episode aired on June 13, Although the main notating and story lines are ethics same, there are significant differences between the book and grandeur series, most notably:

• In authority series, themes and characters spread novels following Club Dead bony already introduced, such as Sookie's fairy background.
• In the book, Town Thornton is merely an refer to to a vampire friend, Printer Mott. In the series, she is abducted and raped past as a consequence o him, and he is orderly spy to Russell Edgington explore Bill's project.
• Debbie Pelt is exotic as a werewolf in nobility series, rather than a shapeshifter.
• In the series, Russell Edgington has Bill abducted by werewolves stomach tries to have him edge his loyalty - he treats him as a guest instruction orders for his execution, contingent in Lorena torturing him, posterior on.
• Russell Edgington has a prime vampire consort in the keep in shape. In the novel, vampire appositenesss are described as unusual snowball Russell is accompanied by unadorned human consort.
• In the series, Lou Pine's is a werewolf/shifter complete bar, rather than a harpy bar that accommodated all matching the supernatural community.

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