Another Sookie Stackhouse? Book Review

As an old True Blood fan, I was quite excited when I discovered that Charlaine Harris had written a second supernatural/crime series with another interesting protagonist, Harper Connolly. Unlike Sookie, the mind reading small town waitress, Harper can find dead bodies. And once she touches them, she can figure out how they died. You would think this is a useful skill to have in a crime book and that she’d be pretty popular with the crime fighting brigade. But as some of us know, people on the whole don’t like those who are different and feel threatened by those with special talents. We’re a pretty closed-minded lot and people in the Ozarks, Arkansas, where ‘Grave Sight’ takes place, are no different.  

Harper travels all over the States as a sort of corpse finding consultant, accompanied by her step brother and manager Tolliver. Having grown up together in the same dysfunctional family, they understand each other like no outsider ever could. They look out for each other and protect each other in some very trying circumstances and often dangerous situations.

The follow-on book, ‘Grave Surprise’, takes them to Memphis where they end up in the middle of a complicated double murder case. If you liked Sookie, then you might just take to Harper. Charlaine Harris has nailed a light readable and engaging style. Published by Orion. (Indiana Brown)

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