The small town of Midnight is populated by an odd (in every sense of the word) assortment from characters. Hailed as the start of a new series, the book does have some crossover with Harris’ earlier Lily Bard series, and is set in the same – or at least a very similar – world to the Sookie Stackhouse novels.

Which is to say that Midnight Crossroad is my first real experience with this immensely-talented author. I did watch the first couple of episodes of HBO’s True Blood, and enjoyed them, before deciding that HBO’s need to turn everything into a soft-porn version of the original material ( Game of Breasts, anyone?) wasn’t worth the effort. I’m going to come straight out and admit that I have never read Charlaine Harris before. Everyone in Midnight has secrets, and this development has the potential to reveal those secrets to the rest of the community. Here he finds a small, close-knit community whose worlds will be turned upside down with the discovery of a body in the outskirts of town. Online psychic Manfred Bernardo has chosen Midnight as the perfect place to get away from the world and concentrate on his work. Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a wide spot in the road grown up around a crossroads that consists of little more than a gas station, a diner and, in the town’s most imposing structure, Midnight Pawn. Most of the town residents are very proud of the stoplight, because they know that without it the town would dry up and blow away.

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