Living Dead in Dallas - by Charlaine Harris

The second book in the Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampires) series, Living Dead in Dallas is just as engaging as the first. This book picks up where the first left off and soon enough we find someone else dead in Bon Ton. But, before Sookie can even start to think about finding that killer, she is called away to Dallas by the Vampires.

After helping them previously she committed that she would continue to use her gift to help them whenever they needed it, so long as they allowed any humans involved to go free. Escorted by her boyfriend, Vampire Bill, she heads off to Dallas to meet a new set of Vampires and find out why one of their friends has suddenly gone missing.

Her investigation leads her to a local anti-vampire religious group that has plans to use their friend to display God's wrath, and before long Sookie has become part of their plan as well. Getting some help from some unlikely sources, Sookie manages to escape and let her new Vampire friends know what is going on before heading back to Bon Ton again.

Once back in Bon Ton, Sookie is wrapped up in trying to clear the name of a local cop in the murder that occurred before she left for Dallas. This investigation takes her to some interesting places locally; places and events she had no idea even existed in her little town.