Soon to be an NBC TV series! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels - 'the Mark Twain of things that live under your b ed' - comes a new novel of Midnight, Texas, the town where some secrets will nev er see the light of day . . . Welcome to the most intriguing mystery you'll r ead this year. Welcome to Midnight, Texas. At Midnight's local pawnshop, weap ons are flying off the shelves-only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides r ight at the main crossroads in town. Who better to figure out why blood is bei ng spilled than the vampire Lemuel, who, while translating mysterious texts, dis covers what makes Midnight the town it is. There's a reason why witches and were wolves, killers and psychics, have been drawn to this place. And now they must come together to stop the bloodshed in the heart of Midnight. For if all hell b reaks loose - which just might happen - it will put the secretive town on the ma p, where no one wants it to be . . .