Thursday, May 17, 2007

#37 Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris

My Rating: 9 out of 10 stars

I ate this book up in a few days! Which was surprising because I'd been wondering why my reading pace had slowed down somewhat with my last few books. It's become obvious to me that I chew through the ones I really enjoy while the other stuff that's just okay kind of drags at a steadier pace. Hmmm....

Grave Surprise continues the story of Harper and Tolliver started in Grave Sight. Harper has an unusual talent for being able to find the dead, and discover their last living moments including how they died. She's often called upon by distressed parents or various law enforcement officials to help in missing persons cases, to see if a body can be located... for Harper can only find the dead, not the living.

Harper and Tolliver are called to Memphis by anthropology professor Dr. Clyde Nunley to "read" a graveyard, the records for which were only recently discovered. Little do they realize that Dr. Nunley is hoping to expose Harper as a fraud since no one else has had access to these records besides himself. But the entire class gets more than they bargained for when, besides being spot on for each person buried in the centuries-old cemetery, Harper discovers the body of 11-year-old Tabitha Morganstern, abducted from Nashville 2 years prior, in one of the existing grave sites. Harper had been called in on Tabitha's case back then but had failed to produce results when she couldn't locate the body. So her and Tolliver begin to wonder if this is too much of a coincidence and that perhaps they were set up to find this body. Unfortunately, the police and FBI aren't too pleased with the coincidences either...

The action keeps going nonstop right up until the very end. I anxiously await the next book in the wonderful new Harper Connelly series by Charlaine Harris.

BookCrossing journal page for this book

6 comments:

Marg said...

I recently read the first book in this series, and while I liked it, I didn't love it! I am hoping that I will enjoy the second book in the series more.

Cherie said...

yeah, I only gave the first book a 7 myself... meaning pretty good, but not wow! This second one was much better IMO. :)

Cherie said...

BTW, here's a link to my review of Grave Sight.

Sheila said...

I'm guessing this is another series of Harris's than the vampire books?
These sound pretty good maybe I should give them a try :)

Cherie said...

yeah a newer series, the first book of which came out in hardcover at the end of 2005 and paperback October of 2006. I think I still like the Sookie books better though time will tell as this series develops. But I'm kinda a Vamp Whore! :D LOL

Anonymous said...

Most of her fans love Sookie the best, but this is my favorite series.