Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She`s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn`t get out much - not because she`s not pretty - she`s a very cute bubbly blonde - or not interested in a social life. She really is ...but Sookie`s got a bit of a disability. She can read minds. And that doesn`t make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill: he`s tall, he`s dark and he`s handsome - and Sookie can`t `hear` a word he`s thinking. He`s exactly the type of guy she`s been waiting all her life for. But Bill has a disability of his own: he`s fussy about his food, he doesn`t like suntans and he`s never around during the day ...Yep, Bill`s a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with a reputation for trouble - of the murderous kind. And then one of Sookie`s colleagues at the bar is killed, and it`s beginning to look like Sookie might be the next victim ...