When telepathic Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse discovered her un-dead cousin Hadley had passed in to her afterlife, it surprised her. After all, Hadley was already dead, not to mention the favorite consort of the Vampire Queen of New Orleans. When the queen's lawyer unexpectedly arrives to take Sookie back to New Orleans to deal with Hadley's estate, they discover the messenger who was bringing news of the lawyer's arrival went missing before she could get the message to Sookie.

Someone is working real hard to keep Sookie from going through Hadley's possessions; even going as far as to murder the messenger to keep Sookie from going to New Orleans. Once at Hadley's apartment, Sookie, with help from Amelia Broadway, Hadley's landlady who is also a witch, gets ready to clean the place up when they discover a dead were turned vampire in the closet. If that's not enough, she still has the Pelt's dodging her every step, trying to find out what happened to their daughter Debbie. It's clear someone wants to stop Sookie and with so many things going wrong, everyone's a suspect, even the Vampire Queen herself.

DEFINITELY DEAD is the first book by Charlaine Harris I have had the pleasure of reading. Though it is book six in her Southern Vampire series, I had no trouble at all getting immersed in her vividly detailed world. Ms. Harris packs a lot into this one book which means Sookie gets into a whole lot of trouble and keeps you engrossed through all of it. Though there are rumours that this book was to be the end of the series, there will be at least one more book for which I am extremely grateful. It would be pure torture if I had to go through life not knowing how things went with Sookie and her newest love interest, Quinn. I'd never be able to live through the suspense. So for all you people out there who are worried your favorite series is ending; quit worrying. It's not quite over yet.