She shoots Tray Dawson, a werewolf who was sent to protect Sookie by Calvin Norris (who wants to marry Sookie), but she is then killed by Andy Bellefleur, who is a believer in Sookie's talent, and realizes there are other supes out there. Sweetie explains that she was bitten and became part shifter, and kills any shifter she comes in contact with. Later, Sookie is in an alley with Sam (as a dog) trying to find the killer, when Sweetie Des Arts, Merlotte's cook, comes at her with a gun. She discovers that her bullet matches the bullets of all the others who were killed, except Sam's. Sookie is also shot while leaving the library, presumably because she associates with shifters. A dead man (killed by Charles Twining during the fire) is found outside her house, covered in gasoline, with a FotS card in his wallet, so he is blamed for the arson. Someone tries to burn down Sookie's house, but she is saved by her fairy godmother, Claudine. Alcide hopes Sookie's telepathic abilities will give him an advantage. The quest for new packleader begins: it's either Alcide's dad or Patrick Furnam. Colonel Flood, leader of the Long Tooth pack of Shreveport, is also killed (supposedly by accident), and Alcide brings Sookie to the funeral as his date.

Known for dispensing their own kind of justice, the real shooter needs to be found before the werepanthers turn on Jason. Calvin suspects Jason, based on the theory that Jason is angry at weres for turning him into a werepanther. Calvin Norris is also shot and seriously wounded, and Sookie learns that other shifters and were animals are being shot throughout Louisiana. Eric sends their new bartender, Charles Twining, who is very nice to Sookie. He asks Sookie to go to Fangtasia to ask Eric to lend him a bartender while he is out. Sam is shot in the leg, and must recuperate, so cannot run the bar. Calvin Norris comes to watch over him and help him, and Jason ends up loving turning into a half man/half panther. It's the first full moon since Jason was bitten by the werepanthers (in Dead to the World), and Sookie doesn't know how he is going to handle it. As if trying to discover who's behind the shootings isn't enough, the telepathic cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has to cope with a few other distractions: her sexy 'Were' friend, Alcide Herveaux, needs her help in his father's bid to become the next leader of the local werewolf pack her boss, Sam Merlotte (a collie in his spare time), gets shot her house partly burns down and what's she to do about the handsome vampire bartender who dresses as a pirate at Sam's place? In this fifth installment, the fifth Sookie Stackhouse fantasy-mystery puts vampires, were-creatures, shifters and one fairy godmother against a sniper with an apparent aversion to nonhumans.

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