Charlaine Harris

Since she met her fiance Martin, Roe has never been happier. There's a difference in age and background, but he seems to know exactly what she wants - like the Julius house. But when Roe is attacked by an axe-wielding maniac, she realises that the secrets inside her four walls - and her brand-new marriage - could destroy her.

Life has taken Sookie from waitress, to part owner; from social outcast to popularity; from a vampire's girlfriend to the wife of one of the most powerful vampires in the state. She has survived explosions, revolutions and attempts on her life. But the question is, in the end, who will love, who will live and who will be dead ever after?

Harper Connelly can sense the dead, & sometimes even their last moments of life. So when she & her brother are called in to find missing people, the outcome is seldom happy. But when she's called to a small-town investigation & stumbles across a 'suicide', her welcome is even frostier than usual. Originally published: New York: Berkley Prime Crime,

Disguising herself with short hair and baggy clothes, Lily Bard has started over as a cleaning lady in the sleepy town of Shakespeare, where she can sweep away the secrets of her dark and violent past. However her plan to live a quiet, unobserved life begins to crumble when she discovers the dead body of her nosy landlord.

Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner have selected the best of a rare crop of supernatural and urban fantasy stories from some of the greatest writers in the school.