Charlaine Harris

Jean Charlaine Harris Schulz She is best known for her book series The Southern Vampire Mysteries, which was adapted as the TV series True Blood. The television show was a critical and financial success for HBO, running seven seasons, from 2008 through 2014. She did not resume the series until 1999, with the exception of one short story in an anthology titled "Murder, They Wrote".

In 1996, Harris published the first in the Shakespeare series, featuring cleaning lady detective Lily Bard, set in rural Arkansas. At the time, a New York Times interview with Harris noted that she "live in small-town Arkansas". A supplemental book, After Dead, was published in October 2013. The second novel, Living Dead in Dallas, won the 2003 Lord Ruthven Award for Fiction, and the anthology The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories won the 2018 Ruthven Award for Fiction.

October 2005 marked the debut of Harris's new series, entitled Harper Connelly Mysteries, with the release of Grave Sight. The series is told by a young woman named Harper Connelly, who after being struck by lightning, is able to locate dead bodies and to see their last moments through the eyes of the deceased. In October 2010, it was announced Harper Connelly's series had been optioned for a television series named Grave Sight.

The year 2014 marked the debut of the Cemetery Girl series, a graphic novel series co-written with Christopher Golden and illustrated by Don Kramer.

Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League, and has served as a member of the board of Sisters in Crime and as president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance. She is also an avid reader and cinemaphile. Harris formerly resided in Magnolia, Arkansas, where she was the senior warden of St. James Episcopal Church, and as of 2017 lives in Texas. She has recounted that, at age 25, she was sexually assaulted at knifepoint by an intruder in her home. This led to her pursuing Karate and weightlifting. It's also why the protagonists of her novels are "women who strike back."

Adaptations Audio Harris' novels have often been adapted as full-cast dramatised productions by GraphicAudio, starting with their adaptation of her Cemetery Girl graphic novels. The company also adapted her Midnight Texas series, and her Gunnie Rose novels.

Television

Her series of novels The Southern Vampire Mysteries was adapted into the show True Blood. The series lasted seven seasons and totaled 80 episodes. It was nominated for dozens of awards. True Blood aired on HBO. The show was also the most viewed show on HBO since The Sopranos.

In 2014, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries began adapting Harris' Aurora Teagarden novels into a series of television films, starring Candace Cameron Bure.

Harris's series Midnight, Texas was developed as a TV series by NBC and began airing on their network in 2017.

Video games Dying for Daylight (February 2011) The first all new video game written by Charlaine Harris, released by iPlay Games; starring Dahlia Based on Book 10: Dead in the Family Shakespeare's Landlord - an interactive game (January 2018) Video game adapted from Charlaine Harris' novel of the same name, developed by One More Story Games Based on Book 1: Shakespeare's Landlord

Published works

Aurora Teagarden series (1990–present) Real Murders (1990) A Bone to Pick (1992) Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (1994) The Julius House (1995) Dead Over Heels (1996) "Deeply Dead" in Murder, They Wrote A Fool and His Honey (1999) Last Scene Alive (2002) Poppy Done to Death (2003) All the Little Liars (2016) Sleep Like a Baby (2017)

Lily Bard (Shakespeare) series (1996–2001) Shakespeare's Landlord (1996) Shakespeare's Champion (1997) Shakespeare's Christmas (1998) Shakespeare's Trollop (2000) Shakespeare's Counselor (2001) 0-312-27762-8 5.1. "Dead Giveaway" published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (December 2001)

Sookie Stackhouse series (2001–14) For more detailed information see The Southern Vampire Mysteries/True Blood. Title Also In Publication Date ISBN Comments 1 Dead Until Dark

May 2001 2 Living Dead in Dallas Mar 2002 3 Club Dead May 2003 4 Dead to the World Mar 2004 4.1 Fairy Dust Powers of Detection

A Touch of Dead

The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories 4.2 Dracula Night Many Bloody Returns

A Touch of Dead

The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories 4.3 Dancers in the Dark Night's Edge novella 5 Dead as a Doornail Sookie Stackhouse 8 Copy Boxed Set May 2005 5.1 One Word Answer Bite

A Touch of Dead

The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories 6 Definitely Dead Sookie Stackhouse 8 Copy Boxed Set May 2006 6.1 Tacky My Big, Fat Supernatural Wedding Dahlia short story 7 All Together Dead Sookie Stackhouse 8 Copy Boxed Set May 2007 7.1 Lucky Unusual Suspects

Between the Dark and Daylight

A Touch of Dead

The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories 8 From Dead to Worse Sookie Stackhouse 8 Copy Boxed Set May 2008 8.1 Gift Wrap Wolfsbane and Mistletoe

A Touch of Dead

The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories 8.2 Bacon Strange Brew makes an offhand reference to Jim Butcher's wizard, Harry Dresden; a Dahlia short story ' The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories novella 10.3 A Very Vampire Christmas|Glamour Magazine Dec 2010 a Dahlia short story 11 Dead Reckoning| May 2011 11.1 Death by Dahlia|Down These Strange Streets a Dahlia short story 12 Deadlocked| May 2012 12.1 If I Had a Hammer|Home Improvement: Undead Edition The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories 12.2 Playing Possum|An Apple for the Creature The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories 13 Dead Ever After| May 2013 The final Sookie Stackhouse novel Book Two: Inheritance (2015) Book Three: Haunted (2018)

Midnight, Texas Trilogy (2014–2016) Midnight Crossroad (May 2014) Day Shift (May 2015) Night Shift (May 2016)

Gunnie Rose series An Easy Death (2018) A Longer Fall (2020) The Russian Cage (2021) The Serpent in Heaven (2022) All the Dead Shall Weep (2023) The Last Wizard's Ball (2025)

Stand-alones Sweet and Deadly (1981) . Republished in the UK as Dead Dog A Secret Rage (1984) Layla Steps Up (2010) A Taste of True Blood (2010) Indigo (2017)

Anthologies and collections

Living Dead in Dallas

Club Dead

Dead to the World

Dead as a Doornail

Definitely Dead

All Together Dead

"Dracula Night"

"One Word Answer"

"Lucky"

"Dracula Night" (2007)

"One Word Answer" (2005)

"Lucky" (2008)

"Gift Wrap" (2008)

"Two Blondes" (2010)

"Small-Town Wedding" (2011)

"If I Had a Hammer" (2011)

"Playing Possum" (2012)

"In the Blue Hereafter" (2014)Nov 2017 (hardcover), (ebook)Heroic Hearts"The Return of the Mage"2022

As editor Many Bloody Returns (September 2007; co-editor with Toni LP Kelner) Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (October 2008; co-editor with Toni LP Kelner) Crimes by Moonlight (April 2010) Death's Excellent Vacation (August 2010; co-editor with Toni LP Kelner) Home Improvement: Undead Edition (August 2011; co-editor with Toni LP Kelner) An Apple for the Creature (September 2012; co-editor with Toni LP Kelner)