Midnight Crossroad

A new series about a recurring character from Harper Connolly? Why not, I liked Manfred.
But at the very beginning Bobo from a town called Shakespeare appeared. Then a vampire, with obligatory mention of synthetic blood. But not much else was happening. Still I kept on reading only to see if I can spot any other guest appearences – and there is a new sheriff in town, and his name is Arthur Smith, and he used to be in a club discussing old murder cases... And by that time something happened. But it was not very interesting.
From rasw usenet discussion group comes the term Brain Eater Syndrome (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Nicoll#.22Brain_eater.22) – a disease sometimes contracted by authors. Among the proposed symptoms are:
• nothing happens in later books (check)
• an attempt to tie all his/her previous books into one giant multiverse (check).
The second symptom is more worrying, because Sookie and Lily/Aurora do not belong in the same universe. Just imagine Lily/Aurora saying Sure, we have vampires coming through Shakespeare/Lawrenceton sometimes. Did I forget to mention it?. You can't? Well, neither can I.