Book 61: Grave Sight

Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, has a couple of other series going, too. Grave Sight is the first of the Harper Connelly Mysteries.



Harper was struck by lightning as a teenager, and now she can sense and sort of hear dead people. She can find them and also discover their cause of death. She and her friend, Tolliver, travel around the country, helping locate bodies for desperate families and the occasional police force.

Harper tells us her story in first person, like Sookie does. But I like Harper a lot more than Sookie. She's much less vapid. She is meaner. She's sarcastic and rude and verges on violence. She's fun!

The plot of this book is totally predictable, but Harris excels at character development, and she has convinced me to read more of her work.