Definitely dead - charlaine harris

The new Sookie Stackhouse novel finds the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress in New Orleans where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.

Supernaturally gifted waitress Sookie Stackhouse is pitted against the legacy of her own undead bloodline in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series --the inspiration for the HBO(R) original series True Blood .

Since Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has so few living relatives, she hates to lose one--even her cousin Hadley, undead consort of the vampire queen of New Orleans.

Hadleys left everything she had to Sookie, but claiming that inheritance has a high risk factor.

Some people dont want her looking too deeply into Hadleys past or Hadleys possessions.

And theyre prepared to do anything in their power to stop her.