Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris is the 2nd book featuring Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic barmaid in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie gets loaned out by the local vampires to another vampire group in Dallas. She and Bill are sent to discover what has happened to a nest brother of the head vampire. What she discovers are an evil church who wants to masacure the vampires, a vampire who meets the sun, more shapeshifters and a maenad who lives in the forest. I enjoyed this latest installment but far too many loose ends were neatly tied up by the end of the story. I think Harris is trying to become more like Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K Hamilton as there is a lot more gore and sex in this one. I wish I could have learned more about the Maenad who seemed to thrive on pride and drunkeness. But a quick overall good read.