Dead As A Doornail.DEAD AS A DOORNAIL door·nail n. A large-headed nail. Idiom: dead as a doornail Undoubtedly dead. Noun 1. . Charlaine Harris Charlaine Harris (born November 25, 1951 in Tunica, Mississippi) is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. Born and raised in the Delta, she began training for her career as soon as she could hold a pencil. . 2005. Read by Johanna Parker. 7 tapes. 9.75 hrs. Recorded Books. 1-4193-4537-0. $69.75. Vinyl; plot, reader notes. SA The admirable, gritty and enterprising young woman Sookie Stackhouse, a cocktail waitress and a skilled telepath tel·e·path n. One who communicates by telepathy. , lives in a world completely alien to ours, inhabited by vampires, werewolves, fairies, witches and shape shifters. Her community, already coexisting in an uneasy truce with its otherworldly neighbors, is rocked on its heels when an unknown sniper targets seemingly random victims. Sookie is wounded and her house is torched; she is unsure whom she can trust. Relying on her instincts and her telepathic te·lep·a·thy n. Communication through means other than the senses, as by the exercise of an occult power. tel abilities, she manages to survive and help bring the shooter to justice. As deadpan mock serious as the story is, author Harris introduces some unexpected good humor near the end with the introduction of a vampire named Bubba bub·ba n. Slang 1. Chiefly Southern U.S. Brother. 2. A white working-class man of the southern United States, stereotypically regarded as uneducated and gregarious with his peers. , whose true identity I will leave for the listener to ascertain. Parker's soft and sweetly innocent Southern accent immerses the listener in this world with little effort. Miles Klein, Frisco, TX |
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