I started reading this book and I was entirely confused. I figured out that I really needed to read the short story "One Word Answer" to understand or even hear about Hadley's death. Given that A Touch of Dead has these short stories, it is on my TBR, but I didn't think that that would be 100% essential to the story. I honestly had to check to see if I had skipped over one of the books because I was so confused. 
 That aside, I really liked this installment. I don't know what I think about Quinn, I just feel like something is fishy there. Vampire Bill is still the worst. Eric is still Eric and Sookie should obviously shack up with him. I'm concerned about Jason and where his story line is going to go. I think it's odd that we are in book 6 and are just now hearing about Sookie's (view spoiler)[ fairy blood (hide spoiler)]. She's been around so many supes, you would have thought someone would have said something by now, right? Oh well. Looking forward to the next book!