"Fantastic"
After being struck by lightening, Harper Connelly can
locate dead people and know if they died of natural
causes, committed suicide, or were murdered. Relatives of
missing people hire Harper to find their missing loved
ones. Harper knows how they died because she senses the
last minutes of the individual's life. Right now she and
her step-brother Tolliver are in the Ozark town of Sarne,
hired to find Teenie, a missing teenage girl. Harper finds the burial place and knows that the girl was
murdered. She also discovers that Teenie's boyfriend
didn't kill her and in remorse committed suicide but was
murdered as well. Hollis, one of the police officers
working the homicides, is interested in Harper who tells
him that his wife Sally, the sister of Teenie was murdered
and not an accident victim. Someone wants Harper and
Tollivar gone and that person will not hesitate to use
violence if it results in getting rid of them permanently. Considering that the heroine can find a dead body and
learn how they died, she is amazingly normal and treats
her skill like any of her other five senses. She even
make a living out of it, not to exploit people but to give
closure and sometimes even helping her client figure out
who killed them if it was a homicide. Fast pacing,
excellent character development and a strong storyline
make GRAVE SIGHT an excellent reading experience. This
fabulous opening gambit affirms that every series
Charlaine Harris creates is utterly fantastic. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 16, 2005
SummaryHarper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she
finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a
person who's passed, and share their very last moment. The
way Harper sees it, she's providing a service to the dead
while bringing some closure to the living—but she's
used to most people treating her like a blood-sucking leech.
Traveling with her step-brother Tolliver as manager and
sometime-bodyguard, she's become an expert at getting in,
getting paid, and getting out fast. Because for the living
it's always urgent—even if the dead can wait forever.
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