When I’m in a particularly stressed or feel down, I’ll pick up one of Harris’s books and I’ll get wrapped up in the utter normalcy of these people. What made Grave Sight a four-star read instead of the average three-star one is the way this book just made me happy. The clues aren’t that cleverly hidden, and the resolution could have had more impact. Ms Harris is only an average mystery writer in my opinion it’s not as if the killer is that obvious, but the experienced reader will figure it out before the end. Within a dozen pages though Ms Harris’s simple language wrapped me up like in a warm blanket, and I got invested in Harper’s story.
When I first started reading I kind of missed the town of Bon Temps with its quirky inhabitants and Sookie’s homeliness. It is more paranormal mystery than anything, and readers should be aware that Grave Sight doesn’t nearly has the scope or feel of the Sookie Stackhouse books. It has a touch of the paranormal with the heroine, but otherwise features the normal world. Grave Sight was a short but entertaining intro in a different series by Charlaine Harris. Together with her stepbrother Tolliver she travels the country to help people: by finding dead bodies. They feature heroine Harper that has been struck by lightning when she was young. Since then, Harper’s scratched out a living selling her services to anyone with a checkbook.Instead of the full-on supernatural romp of the Sookie Stackhouse books, the Harper Connelly ones are more rooted in reality. Because for the living it’s always urgent ― even if the dead can wait forever.Īt the age of 15, Harper Connelly was struck by lightning, an event that gave her the ability to find the dead and see how they died. 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. 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. She can sense the final location of a person who’s passed, and share their very last moment. Acclaimed New York Times Bestselling author Charlaine Harris, the writer of the Sookie Stackhouse series, has joined the Dynamite Entertainment family with the first book of her hit Harper Connelly series, Grave Sight.įor the past five years, readers have been thrilled by the Harper Connelly series which follows a woman who has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people.
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