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One Word Answer

Charlaine Harris

First published January 2005
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series Sookie Stackhouse › Sookie Stackhouse short fiction

Synopsis

Sookie finds out about the death of her cousin Hadley Delahoussaye and helps solve her murder.<br> This story falls between the novels Dead as a Doornail and Definitely Dead.

Notes

Synopsis adapted from "The Sookie Short Stories and Related Material" in The Sookie Stackhouse Companion. In this essay, Charlaine Harris says, "'One Word Answer' ... contains information important for understanding the action in the next book... I apologize to readers who for years wondered if they'd missed a book somehow. I won't put vital information in a short story again."

Publications (20)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
January 2005 Cover Bite Jove Books Anthology 33
January 2005 Cover Bite Jove Books Anthology
May 2009 Cover A Touch of Dead Gollancz Collection
September 2009 Cover A Touch of Dead Ace Books Collection
October 2009 Cover A Touch of Dead Ace Books Collection 73
October 2009 Cover A Touch of Dead Ace Books / SFBC Collection
October 2009 Cover A Touch of Dead Ace Books Collection
October 2009 Cover A Touch of Dead Gollancz Collection 73
October 2009 Cover A Touch of Dead Gollancz Collection
March 2010 A Touch of Dead Wheeler Publishing Collection
August 2010 A Touch of Dead Chivers Press Collection
August 2010 Cover A Touch of Dead Gollancz Collection 73
October 2010 Cover True Blood Boxed Set 2 Gollancz Omnibus |10.5
January 2011 A Touch of Dead Camden Collection
November 2015 Cover A Touch of Dead Ace Books Collection 73
November 2017 Cover The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories Ace Books Collection 47
November 2017 Cover The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories Ace Books Collection
November 2017 Cover The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories Gollancz Collection 47
November 2017 Cover The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories Gollancz Collection
November 2020 Cover The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories Gollancz Collection 47