When Joe Christie's fishing boat is swept onto Tentsmuir beach during a fierce storm, a man's mutilated body is found in the
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Now it's the turn of the weres & shifters to follow the lead of the undead & reveal their existence to the ordinary world. Sookie Stackhouse already knows about them, of course
- her brother turns into a panther at the full moon, she's friend to the local Were pack & Sam, her boss at Merlotte's bar, is a shifter. At first the great Were revelation seems to go well
- then the horribly mutilated body of a were-panther is found outside Merlotte's. Though Sookie never cared that much for the victim, no one deserves such a horrible death, so she agrees to use her telepathic talent to track down the murderer. But what Sookie doesn't realise is that there is a far greater danger than this killer threatening Bon Temps: a race of unhuman beings, older, more powerful & far more secretive than the vampires or the werewolves is preparing for war, 19.7 x 12.9 x 2.5, pages 312.