Grave Sight (Harper Connelly Mystery, Book 1)
by Charlaine Harris

As a fan of Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Series, I picked up Grave Sight in hopes of discovering another well-written series with a likable female heroine and some fun supernatural mysteries. And that’s just what I got with Book 1 of the Harper Connelly Mysteries.

Harper is a quiet and somewhat scared young woman who, after being struck by lightning as a young girl, can sense the dead. This extremely unusual skill has lead to a somewhat lucrative career for Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver (who acts as business manager) as they help solve murders and missing persons cases. And this is actually not as creepy as it sounds! Harper and Tolliver perform this ‘service’ in order to assist those who have lost loved ones and are unable to find closure in unsolved crimes. In this first book in the series, Harper and her brother are called into a small town in Arkansas to assist in the search for a missing local teenager. Once there, they discover, that there’s a lot more going on in this small town than just one missing boy.

While this series has a slightly darker tone than the Sookie Stackhouse books, I really enjoyed getting to know Harper and Tolliver, and was quite intrigued by the pieces of their back-story that we were given. I found the secondary characters to be interesting as well, although it’s unlikely we’ll see many of them again since Harper and Tolliver seem to move around with every case. The mystery itself wasn’t all that difficult to figure out, but Grave Sight was still a fun and enjoyable read.