Sookie Stackhouse in the
Southern Vampire Mystery Series
by Charlaine Harris
Dead as a Doornail
inside-cover “Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She’s pretty and well-mannered and has only a few close friends -- which isn’t surprising, since not many people can appreciate Sookie’s abilities as a mind reader. It’s not a quality that has the guys beating down her door -- unless they’re vampires, werewolves, or other supernatural beings. And now some of them aren’t just friendly – they’re family.
When Sookie see her brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time -- a transformation he embraces more readily than most shape-shifters she’s known. But her concern for her brother becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population and Jason’s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter.
Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who’s behind the attacks -- unless the killer decides to find her first…”
