This book is a bit of a slow burner to begin with, and I will admit that I struggled a bit to flow along with second person narrative ‘Manfred did this, Fiji did that’ but after a couple of chapters I eased into it, so if it’s something that you find difficult… stick with it. I love this kind of mix of rural characters and supernatural powers, it gives the book a really comforting gossipy feel and makes characters much easier to relate to. My favourite thing about this book is the characters, they’re all the eccentric and distinctive personalities you’d expect to find in a small town, all with their own histories and secrets that will hopefully be spilled later on in the series. It’s only at the very end of the book that the action heats up and you get hit with a surprising ending. Similar to the first book in the Stackhouse series, this is a meandering supernatural mystery that focuses on the strange residents of a small town. I’m a fan of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series (far more than the TV series, past season 2 anyways), so after I saw that this series has been adapted for TV I thought I’d skip that step and just read the book instead.

But if you stay a while, you might learn the truth… If you stop at the one traffic light in town, then everything looks normal. And there’s new resident: Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own). There’s a diner (although those folk who are just passing through tend not to linger). There’s a pawnshop (where someone lives in the basement and runs the store during the night). It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. So I wasn’t really worried, but I’m always anxious that it will turn out to be something that’s a credit not only to me, but to everyone involved, because I want them to have a job for a long, long time.Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. The demands of telling the story visually are very different from the demands of sitting in a room by yourself and putting it on the page. The initial shock with True Blood was just me being a newbie, and now I’m used to it. In an interview with Screen Rant at SDCC 2017, Harris revealed how she now deals with changes made to her stories and characters when they are adapted to TV, following Midnight, Texas' premiere on NBC:

Related: Midnight, Texas TV Show is Like the Books, But On Steroids Her other book series, the Aurora Teagarden Mystery franchise (consisting of nine books so far), has also found a home on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel, with Candace Cameron Bure starring as the title character. Charlaine Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League.

She is best known for her The Southern Vampire Mysteries series, which HBO adapted for its hit drama/fantasy series True Blood. Of course, this is not the first time Harris' novels have been adapted for the small screen.

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