Edited sentence: Alcide's father and candidate for packmaster.Charles Twining: Vampire.Christine Larrabee: Werewolf.He has long fingernails and a sharp face.He is depicted as a slim and narrow shouldered man with slicked-back hair.He is killed by the other competing candidate, Patrick Furnan.Jackson Herveaux: Werewolf.Mickey: Vampire and a mean spirited man who likes the old ways.Sent by Hot Rain ( Long Shadow's sire) to hurt and kill Sookie thus hurting Eric.She also seems a little sharper, perhaps better educated, than any of Merlotte’s previous short-order cooks.She has been hired to be Merlotte's cook.She has killed twenty-two of them and injured forty-one.She is a former packmaster's wife and a respected member of the Shreveport pack.She is depicted as “bony and brunette and fortyish” who wears a lot of makeup.She shoots Calvin Norris, but she is killed by Andy Bellefleur.Sookie describes his eyes as "cold and hostile as a snake’s.Sweetie Des Arts: Fraction shifter who has been bitten by a half-man half-wolf in a car accident.”  Angry because her boyfriend and family are disgusted by her new nature, she starts a vendetta against all shifters by shooting any shifter she comes across