All Together Dead
Sophie-Anne Leclerq, Queen of Louisiana, has been left politically and financially exposed by the hurricane that wrecked her state — and she is about to stand trial, accused of murdering her husband, the King of Arkansas. She summons Sookie Stackhouse to a vampire summit in the northern city of Rhodes, where undead power players from across the central United States are gathering, and puts the telepathic waitress to work reading the minds of the humans who travel in their entourages.
Sookie arrives with her weretiger boyfriend, Quinn, and finds a hotel full of rival delegations, old debts, and vampires who would rather she did not hear what she can hear. Outside, the anti-vampire Fellowship of the Sun is picketing the summit. Inside, Sookie and Barry the Bellboy — the only other telepath she has ever met — begin to sense that someone means to do far worse than protest.
The seventh Sookie Stackhouse novel turns the series' small-town Louisiana intrigue into a locked-hotel political thriller, and closes with the most destructive night the Southern Vampire Mysteries have yet staged.
Reading the earlier novels is recommended to fully appreciate the character development and ongoing political tensions, as the series features a continuous narrative arc that builds significantly by this seventh installment.
Several short stories exist within the same universe that provide additional context for characters and events, including specific pieces that take place between the novels in the series.