Dead in the Family
- 320
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 0 weeks on the list
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Our view
“Dead in the Family” puts relationships first: Sookie’s tangled ties to vampires, fairies and her own family take centre stage. In this tenth volume, anyone who simply likes spending time with these characters gets plenty, and the book remains easy and fun. Some readers miss a central story and see loosely linked incidents in place of a single plot. For those long settled into “The Southern Vampire Mysteries”, not a place to begin.
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About the book
Dead in the Family is a 2010 New York Times Bestselling Gothic mystery novel by Charlaine Harris and the tenth book in her The Southern Vampire Mysteries series. The novel was released on May 4, 2010, by Ace Books and follows Sookie as she deals with her increasingly more complicated romantic and personal relationships with the supernatural creatures around her.
Reading order · The Southern Vampire Mysteries
Full order & progress →- Dead Until DarkStart here
7.27.2 / 10 - Living Dead in Dallas
7.57.5 / 10 - Club Dead
7.57.5 / 10 - Dead to the World
7.77.7 / 10 - Dead as a Doornail
7.57.5 / 10 - Definitely Dead
7.57.5 / 10 - All Together Dead
7.67.6 / 10 - From Dead to Worse
7.67.6 / 10 - Dead and Gone
7.47.4 / 10 - Dead in the FamilyThis book
7.47.4 / 10 - Dead Reckoning
7.37.3 / 10 - Deadlocked
7.37.3 / 10 - Dead Ever After
7.17.1 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.0 across 252 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 63% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Romance average of 7.6. That is how 7.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.5 | 15 | 6% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 20 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 6.9 | 217 | 86% |
Frequently asked
How long is Dead in the Family?
It has 320 pages — shorter than 92% of the ranked books in Romance.
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