Definitely Dead

A Were's sudden attack at a Shreveport theater is just the start of Sookie Stackhouse's night, she still has to drive to New Orleans to settle the affairs of her cousin Hadley, a vampire murdered some time before. Hadley's old apartment turns out to be sealed under a preservation spell, and breaking it releases more than dust, including a newly turned vampire nobody accounted for. Between hospital visits and a reunion with her ex Bill Compton, Sookie gets pulled into the political orbit of Louisiana's vampire Queen, and a missing piece of jewelry that matters more than it should. The sixth novel in Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series.