When I read Dead Until Dark and fell madly in-love I began scouring the internet for other books by Charlaine Harris. I found a couple of mystery series she'd written. This is the first book in her Lily Bard series. In some ways, these books are amongst my favorites. They're darker than her Sookie Stackhouse books but explore her themes to perfection: the outsider trying to make her way through the hypocrisy of self-satisfied conventional society, the flawed heroes and understandable villains, the dark humor inherent in even the most serious of situations. I'm still sorry this series has gone on hiatus. I keep hoping she'll find time to give us more Lily Bard (although she did give Lily a guest appearance in one of Sookie's books, which was great fun).