Club Dead

Club Dead

Charlaine Harris

First published 2003Original language EN

7.57.5 / 10
Score out of 10358 ratingsConfidence 71%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
297
Pages
about 5 h
Reading time

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Our view

“Club Dead” is a quick, compulsive third volume of “The Southern Vampire Mysteries”, built to send you straight to the fourth. Sookie’s search for the missing Bill brings a werewolf and the vampire Eric to the fore, and some readers find it stronger than the two books before it and feel the prose gets better with each instalment. It assumes knowledge of the earlier volumes, so begin there.

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About the book

Club Dead is the third book in American mystery writer Charlaine Harris's series The Southern Vampire Mysteries, released in 2003. In Club Dead, Sookie's boyfriend Bill disappears while working on a secret project, and Sookie heads out to Jackson, Mississippi in hopes of retrieving him alive. In this quest, she enlists the aid of a werewolf, Alcide Herveaux, and a vampire Eric.

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Reading order · The Southern Vampire Mysteries

Full order & progress →
Score per volume13 volumes on a timeline, 2001 to 2013 · Best-rated volume: Dead to the World
  1. Dead Until Dark
    Dead Until Dark2001 · 719 ratingsStart here
    7.27.2 / 10
  2. Living Dead in Dallas
    Living Dead in Dallas2002 · 414 ratings
    7.57.5 / 10
  3. Club Dead
    Club Dead2003 · 358 ratingsThis book
    7.57.5 / 10
  4. Dead to the World
    Dead to the World2004 · 356 ratings
    7.77.7 / 10
  5. Dead as a Doornail
    Dead as a Doornail2005 · 319 ratings
    7.57.5 / 10
  6. Definitely Dead
    Definitely Dead2006 · 317 ratings
    7.57.5 / 10
  7. All Together Dead
    All Together Dead2007 · 305 ratings
    7.67.6 / 10
  8. From Dead to Worse
    From Dead to Worse2008 · 294 ratings
    7.67.6 / 10
  9. Dead and Gone
    Dead and Gone2009 · 282 ratings
    7.47.4 / 10
  10. Dead in the Family
    Dead in the Family2010 · 252 ratings
    7.47.4 / 10
  11. Dead Reckoning
    Dead Reckoning2011 · 202 ratings
    7.37.3 / 10
  12. Deadlocked
    Deadlocked2012 · 167 ratings
    7.37.3 / 10
  13. Dead Ever After
    Dead Ever After2013 · 135 ratings
    7.17.1 / 10

Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.3 across 358 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 71% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Romance average of 7.6. That is how 7.5 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library8.05 1%
Hardcover7.3353 99%

Frequently asked

How long is Club Dead?

It has 297 pages — shorter than 94% of the ranked books in Romance.

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