Dead Reckoning characters

Appears from the start

A telepathic waitress in Bon Temps, married to the vampire Eric Northman by vampire custom and sharing her house with two stranded fairy relatives. She is steadier than she was after her torture but not recovered, increasingly resentful of the blood bond that makes her feelings public property, and tired of being useful to people with more power than she has.

Appears from the start

The shapeshifter who owns Merlotte's. Business has never recovered from the public revelation of the two-natured, money is tight, and an attack on the bar is the last thing he can afford. He is still involved with the werewolf enforcer Jannalynn Hopper, a relationship his friends find hard to understand.

Appears from the start

The Viking vampire sheriff of Area Five and Sookie's husband by vampire law. Free of his maker at last, he is being squeezed hard by Victor Madden, the regent Nevada set over Louisiana, who blocks his business, poaches his customers and refuses his people every request. He is angrier than he lets Sookie see.

Appears from the start

Eric's child and lieutenant, who runs Fangtasia and has never pretended to be anything but ruthless. She has a private reason to hate Victor Madden that she has kept from almost everyone, and it is eating at her.

Appears from the start

Sookie's vampire neighbor, recovered from the poisoning that nearly destroyed him and back to full strength. His attachment to Sookie is undiminished and he no longer expects it to be returned; he simply makes himself available when she needs someone she can rely on.

First appears in chapter 2

Sookie's part-fairy cousin, lodging in her house since Faery closed and running a strip club in Monroe that has become a refuge for the other fae stranded on this side. Vain, blunt and affectionate in his own way, he keeps his real plans to himself.

First appears in chapter 2

Sookie's great-uncle, a fairy who looks like Jason's twin and lives in her attic. He is helpful, hard-working and plainly not in full possession of himself, and Sookie has come to believe that something was deliberately done to his mind.

First appears in chapter 3

Felipe de Castro's regent in Louisiana, based in Shreveport and set over Eric. Unfailingly pleasant, he has spent months obstructing Eric in every way that stops short of open attack, and both sides know an accommodation is no longer possible.

First appears in chapter 3

Packmaster of the Shreveport werewolves, who has decided that binding Sookie to his pack is worth almost any tactic. His judgment about her, and about what she owes him, has been poor for some time.

First appears in chapter 4

The Long Tooth pack's enforcer and Sam's girlfriend, small, expensively dressed and genuinely dangerous. Her devotion to the pack outweighs everything else she claims to care about.

First appears in chapter 7

A Shreveport hairdresser and a friend of Pam's, calm and observant, who moves easily between the human and vampire worlds. His sister Miriam is seriously ill.

First appears in chapter 7

Immanuel's sister and Pam's lover, dying of leukemia. Vampire law requires a regent's permission before anyone may be turned, and permission has been refused.

First appears in chapter 8

Eric's day man, a werewolf who goes by a name he chose for himself and handles the daylight business Eric cannot. Guarded, professional, and firm about the difference between the work and his private life.

First appears in chapter 11

A young human who works around the vampires of Shreveport and has a personal grievance against Victor Madden over a family death. He is willing to take risks that a sensible person would not.

First appears in chapter 12

The younger sister of Debbie Pelt, the shapeshifter who vanished after trying to kill Sookie. She has spent years insisting that Sookie is responsible and has been ordered by her own kind to leave the matter alone.

First appears in chapter 23

The vampire queen of Oklahoma, who does not appear in person. Her name surfaces in old documents belonging to Eric's dead maker, in terms that concern Eric's future rather than his past.