Take a trip to the small Texas town where only outsiders fit in with the first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’ paranormal mystery series.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 the Davy highway. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town.There’s a pawnshop … town.
There’s a pawnshop with three residents. One is seen only at night. There’s a diner, but people stopping there tend not to linger. There’s a newcomer, Manfred Bernardo, who just wants to work hard and blend in. But Manfred has secrets of his own…
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Another great book from Charlaine Harris. I never want her books to end. Love the small town feel of Midnight.
It as good as others in the series
This book as so many interesting characters. Book 1 doesn’t even scratch the surface of the characters backgrounds. Can’t wait to read the next book.
I read the book before the TV show aired, so I really loved the show.
I’m a fan of Sookie Stackhouse so I have this a try. I love this book. Love the town, the characters, everything about it.
Never thought I would read this genre, but Charlaine Harris writes so well that I really enjoyed this book and glimpses of characters from other series.
This series is a good read. The characters are each endearing, funny and quirky.
Call it Bon Temps withdrawals but I had some doubts about Charlaine Harris’s new series set in Midnight, Texas. Even after I had read the first book in the series, “Midnight Crossroad,” I wasn’t sure I would be as enthralled with this series as I was her Sookie Stackhouse best-selling series, one you might recognize as the basis to the “True Blood” series on HBO.
And yet after reading “Midnight Crossroad,” I couldn’t get the characters out of my head.
The second book in her “Midnight, Texas” series has just been published and “Day Shift” continues the antics of a small but eclectic group of people who live and work in the tiny crossroads known as Midnight, a town somewhere outside of Dallas. I found myself thrilled to be back in their midst and the book captivates better than the first.
The story begins when the main character — even though it’s an ensemble cast — psychic Manfred Bernardo visiting a tony suburb of Dallas to have face-to-face readings with some clients. His Midnight neighbor, the secretive and beautiful Olivia Charity, is also in the hotel and suspiciously involved in a murder that happens there.
When one of Manfred’s clients keels over dead, things get really interesting.
“Day Shift” deals with the fallout of both murders and its effect on the sleepy town where its peculiar residents want to remain out of the public eye. There’s also a new kid in town who’s odd in his own way and under the protection of the equally abnormal “Rev” who operates a pet cemetery and chapel. The abandoned hotel gets a makeover but the owners appear to have ulterior motives. And one of the hotel’s visitors has unique paranormal gifts.
All of these activities, naturally, come to a head in this paranormal mystery series.
Stackhouse lovers will be happy to note that two characters from that series make appearances in Midnight.
Reading the trilogy is a must. Excellent storytelling.
The series moves faster, but still a good read.
Not a Sookie replacement but very good storyline. I like the town of Midnight and the residents. Just getting in to the 2nd book and it’s getting better. Not as much action or thrill but nothing will compare to Harris’s world she created in Bon Temps.