The third season loosely follows the plot of the novel Club Dead in which Sookie teams up with a werewolf named Alcide in Mississippi in order to track down Bill, who has been kidnapped and is being held hostage by a vampire King.
1 "Bad Blood"; Sookie has accepted Bill's offer of marriage but he has been kidnapped.
2 "Beautifully Broken"; the Mississippi Vampire King concocts a plan to consolidate his power, Eric remembers his past, Sam tests the strength of his family bonds and T find out more...

In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995. The timelines braid and converge in 2012 as each man is pulled back into a world they believed they'd left b find out more...