DEAD AS A DOORNAIL

Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in a little bar in a small town deep in Louisiana. She`s funny and pretty and well-mannered, but she doesn`t have that many close friends - mind you, that`s not so surprising when you consider how few people can appreciate her abilities as a mind-reader. It`s not a quality that has the guys beating down her door - well, unless they`re vampires or werewolves or the like . . . but they`re not just supernatural freaks, some of them are friends, even family . . . And much as Sookie might want a quiet life, when she`s around, things just seem to happen . . . like her brother, who appears to be changing into a were-panther. He`s not that bothered, but someone doesn`t like it - someone`s trying to wipe him out, as well as the rest of the shape-changing population, and that mean`s Sookie`s got just a month, before the next full moon, to find out who wants her brother dead, and stop the fiend.