Harris does an admirable job of creating a heroine who's not only interesting but completely believable in a world of the strange and the different. If trying to discover who's behind the shootings isn't enough, the telepathic cocktail waitress from Bon Temps, La., 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? Between one mishap and another, Sookie is one busy gal. ) pits vampires, were-creatures, shifters and one fairy godmother against a sniper with an apparent aversion to nonhumans. Harris's rousing fifth Sookie Stackhouse fantasy-mystery (after 2004's Dead to the World
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