Bite and Powers of Detection

I just finished reading Bite and Powers of Detection, both collections of short stories by various authors. The former focuses on vampire stories and latter on supernatural murder mysteries. I bought them because Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse vampire series on which the HBO series True Blood is based, wrote stories for both of these collections.

Bite has the short story that goes after Dead to the World and before Dead as a Doornail. It's only about 20 pages long, but we're introduced to new characters and there's an occurrence that turns out to be the catalyst for events in subsequent books. You don't need to buy this book, but you'll definitely want to at least check it out from the library so you won't feel lost.

Powers of Detection has a Sookie short story but it's not "required" reading to keep up the novels. This one focuses on Claudine and Claude, fairies that occasionally help Sookie out of trouble. The book was OK. I finished reading all the stories but I wouldn't recommend it.