...in which Sookie witnesses a bombing, gets pulled into vampire politics, and acquires an interesting fairy artifact.
Dead Reckoning, the most recent installment in Charlaine Harris' enormously popular Sookie Stackhouse series, is an improvement on the last few books in the series, but doesn't quite measure up to the earlier books. The book opens with Sookie working her shift at Merlotte's bar, which is firebombed by a mysterious individual. Sookie suspects that someone supernatural is behind the attack. Meanwhile, at home, Sookie is working on cleaning out the attic of her 150 year old house, with the help of her two fairy cousins/roommates. While cleaning out an old desk, Sookie finds a mysterious object that was given to her grandmother by her grandfather. As Sookie digs deeper into the mysteries surrounding her fairy ancestry, she also has to fend off attacks on her life and cope with her secretive, distracted boyfriend, Eric, who's being pulled into a nasty political affair amongst the vampires.
