


Colonel Flood, leader of the Long Tooth pack of Shreveport, is hit by a car and dies, so the pack needs a new leader. 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.

He asks Sookie to go to Fangtasia to ask Eric to lend him a bartender while he is out. Then Sam is shot in the leg and is therefore unable to run the bar. Calvin Norris comes to watch over him and help him, and Jason turns into a half man/half panther. It's the first full moon since Jason was bitten by the werepanther Felton Norris (in Dead to the World). Dead as a Doornail is the fifth book in Charlaine Harris's series The Southern Vampire Mysteries.
