Sookie Stackhouse is a fictional character and protagonist of The Southern Vampire Mysteries book series, written by Charlaine Harris.
[1] The author said that to do this she would include "all the elements I loved: mystery, the supernatural, bloody adventure, and a dash of romance.
And since people had told me for years that I had a great sense of humor, I thought it would be interesting to try to include that in the book, too".
[7] Sookie is a telepathic waitress working in Merlotte's Bar and Grill in Bon Temps, Louisiana.
She and her brother, Jason, were raised by their grandmother, Adele Stackhouse, after their parents were killed in a car accident.
She meets and falls in love with Bill Compton, a vampire to whom she is attracted partly because she cannot read his mind.
Sookie saves Bill from Denise and Mack Rattray who intend to drain their victim's blood for use as a narcotic.
Sookie uses this ability to help Eric discover that vampire Long Shadow has been embezzling from Fangtasia.
While receiving medical treatment at Russell's mansion, Sookie learns that Bill is being tortured in the pool house.
Bill shoots the witch responsible for Eric’s memory loss and Pam’s curse(resulting in it being broken).
Charles attacks Sookie and reveals that he was sent by Longshadow's maker to hurt Eric by taking something that he loves.
Charles had shot Sam so that Sookie must find a replacement bartender and had set her house on fire before framing an innocent man.
Sookie and Quinn attend the party Sophie-Anne and her husband, Peter Threadgill, throw in celebration of their new union.
Sookie agrees for the benefit of Sophie-Anne to listen to the thoughts of humans at The Summit, attended by powerful vampires.
Sookie and fellow telepath Barry Horowitz, who met previously in Dallas, learn that multiple bombs have been planted in the hotel by the Fellowship of the Sun.
Sookie and Barry discover that if they hold hands their telepathy is magnified and by doing this they help find humans buried in the rubble.
The Louisiana town of Bon Temps—along with the rest of the world—is about to be rocked with some big supernatural news: like the vampires before them, the Were people—humans with the ability to change into animals—are about to reveal themselves to humanity.
While the initial announcement seems to go over smoothly with most people, tragedy strikes when Sookie's sister-in-law, a werepanther, is found murdered and nailed up on a cross.
Jason is the prime suspect, but Sookie has even bigger problems to deal with when she learns that a vicious fairy prince is determined to kill her.
Eric's maker, Appius Livius Ocella, arrives, bringing his other vampire child Alexei Romanov with him.
Bill, who sustained silver poisoning while rescuing Sookie, refuses to ask any of Lorena's other vampire children for help so that his health will continue to worsen.
Sookie discovers that the unknown fairy previously on her property is Claudine's unborn child's father, Colman.
Sookie sells some furniture to an antiques store where the owner, Donald Calloway, finds a secret compartment containing a letter from her grandmother and an object called a Cluviel Dor.
Donald arrives at Sookie's house demanding that she give him the contents of the furniture she has sold him and then he pulls a knife on her.
Sookie learns that Jannalyn, who has held Warren captive, had told Mustapha to let Kym into Eric's house.
Claude reveals that he had enlisted Jannalyn to find a werewolf to whom he would then give fairy blood, thus making them irresistible to Eric.
Sam, Sookie's friend and now co-owner of Merlotte's, is having a hard time dealing with having been suddenly brought back to life.
To help her with these issues, Sookie is visited by Desmond Cataliades, Diantha, Barry Horowitz and Amelia Broadway and Bob.
After Jason and Michele get married, Sam drives Sookie home and wants to spend the night.
The rapper Snoop Dogg, a fan of the tv-show, made a song called "Oh Sookie", inspired by the character.