A nifty puzzle toward the end will challenge the most jaded mystery buffs. Harris delivers a knuckle-gnawing tale populated with well-developed, albeit edgy characters. When Harper's life is threatened and Tolliver ends up in jail on trumped-up charges, it quickly becomes apparent that something sinister is going on in Sarne.
There are four Harper titles (Grave Sight, Grave Surprise, An Ice Cold Grave and Grave Secret). Finding the body takes no time at all, but leaving town afterward isn't so easy. Harris's newest series features Harper Connelly, a young woman who, after being struck by lightning, finds herself able to locate the bodies of the dead and to determine the cause of their death. Charlaine Harris Harper Connelly Mysteries Quartet 4 Books Collection Pack Set (An Ice Cold Grave (3), Grave Sight (1), Grave Surprise (2), Grave Secret (4)) 4. Harper travels to the Ozark town of Sarne, Ark., to find a missing teenage girl's body, accompanied by her stepbrother, Tolliver, who acts as her manager and bodyguard and with whom she shares a thinly disguised physical attraction that they manage to keep at bay by engaging in casual sex with various partners.
When a deceased acquaintance names Roe as heir to a substantial estate, which includes money, jewelryand#151 and a house complete with a skull hidden in a window seatand#151 Roe concludes that the elderly woman has purposely left her a murder to solve.Ever since Harper Connelly survived a zap from a lightning bolt, she's been able to find dead people, a skill that makes the protagonist in the first installment of Harris's new series a tad more bizarre than the mind-reading heroine of the author's Sookie Stackhouse books (Dead as a Doornail, etc.). But after she finds a member dead, killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss, Roe has to uncover the person behind a terrifying game, one that casts all the members of Real Murders, herself included, as prime suspectsand#151 or potential victimsand#133 Georgia librarian Aurora and#147 Roeand#8221 Teagarden belongs to a club called Real Murders, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. Harper Connelly, the central character of the novel, has the ability to sense the location and last memories of dead people, a result of being struck by lightning as a young teenager. The acclaimed author of the phenomenal Sookie Stackhouse novels, Charlaine Harris introduces a Southern librarian whose bookish bent for murder gets her involved in real-life mysteriesand#133 Grave Sight is the first of four novels in The Harper Connelly Mysteries by American mystery author Charlaine Harris. NOW IN ONE VOLUMEand#151 THE FIRST TWO AURORA TEAGARDEN MYSTERIES
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