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Dead As A Doornail

Sookie's got just a month before the next full moon to find out who wants her brother dead - and to stop the fiend! Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life mostly. She's a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life albeit a bit complicated and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is Sookie wants a quiet life - but things just seem to happen to her and her friends. Now her brother Jason's eyes are starting to change: he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. She can deal with that but her normal sisterly concern turns to cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population. She afraid not just because Jason's at risk but because his new were-brethren suspect Jason may be the shooter. Sookie has until the next
full moon to find out who's behind the attacks - unless the killer decides to find her first. The Sookie Stackhouse books are delightful Southern Gothic supernatural mysteries starring Sookie the telepathic cocktail waitress and a cast of increasingly colourful characters including vampires werewolves and things that really do go bump in the night.

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Sookie's got just a month before the next full moon to find out who wants her brother dead
- & to stop the fiend! Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life mostly. She's a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life albeit a bit complicated & most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is Sookie wants a quiet life
- but things just seem to happen to her & her friends. Now her brother Jason's eyes are starting to change: he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. She can deal with that but her normal sisterly concern turns to cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population. She afraid not just because Jason's at risk but because his new were-brethren suspect Jason may be the shooter. Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who's behind the attacks
- unless the killer decides to find her first. The Sookie Stackhouse books are delightful Southern Gothic supernatural mysteries starring Sookie the telepathic cocktail waitress & a cast of increasingly colourful characters including vampires werewolves & things that really do go bump in the night.

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