Sookie Stackhouse book 4 · 2004
Dead to the World
On New Year’s Eve, Sookie finds the vampire Eric Northman running down the road with no memory of who he is, and agrees to hide him while a coven of witches threatens the area.
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Book facts
- Author
- Charlaine Harris
- Series
- Sookie Stackhouse, book 4 of 13
- Published
- 2004
- Setting
- Set in the fictional Bon Temps, Louisiana
- Characters charted
- 7
- Chart confidence
- High
Dead to the World on screen
- True Blood (2008–2014, series, HBO). Anna Paquin plays a telepathic waitress in small-town Louisiana who falls for a vampire, in Alan Ball’s series. Later seasons move further from the books.
Who is in Dead to the World
7 recurring or key characters from Charlaine Harris’s chart.
Lead 1
- Sookie StackhouseTelepathic waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana
Major 3
- Bill ComptonVampire, Sookie's first love
- Eric NorthmanVampire sheriff of Area Five
- Sam MerlotteShapeshifter who owns Merlotte's bar
Minor and cameo 3
- Jason StackhouseSookie's brother
- Alcide HerveauxWerewolf
- Pam RavenscroftEric's vampire child
Also featuring these characters
Other Charlaine Harris books that share the most characters with Dead to the World.
- Definitely Dead2006 · Sookie Stackhouse · 7 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- All Together Dead2007 · Sookie Stackhouse · 7 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- From Dead to Worse2008 · Sookie Stackhouse · 7 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- Dead and Gone2009 · Sookie Stackhouse · 7 shared charactersBuy on Amazon