If you didn’t, you go most of the book thinking that Harper is sexually interested in her actual brother. Now if you read the premise closely, you already knew that Harper and Tolliver are step-siblings. I’m a good writer, but some things can only be expressed with a gif: I loved to listen to the air going in and out of his lungs, the swoosh of his heart” (p. They’re each jealous of the other’s sexual partners and Harper thinks “I loved hugging Tolliver, who was bony and hard and warm. You get the impression that they are a little too close. Harper is prone to panic attacks during storms and is very dependent on Tolliver. She turns this into her job and her brother, Tolliver, serves as her manager and bodyguard. After being struck by lightning as a teenager, Harper Connelly develops the ability to sense dead bodies and to see the last 15 seconds or so before their death. The cover is definitely not the last bizarre thing about this book. I doubt that I would have picked up the book if I hadn’t already read other books by Charlaine Harris.

It doesn’t exactly make sense in relation to the plot of the book, other than many of the characters are hiding secrets. The two male figures hold up portraits of men, but the female figure holds up a painting of a skull. Three figures hold paintings in front of their faces in a room covered with pink, floral, old lady wallpaper. And the killer’s not finished yet…ĭiscussion: I find the cover of this edition of Grave Sight is aggressively ugly. With hostility welling up all around them, she and Tolliver would like nothing better than to be on their way.

A teenage girl has gone missing, but the secrets of her death - and the secrets of the town - are deep enough that even Harper’s special ability can’t uncover them. Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver are experts at getting in, getting paid, and then getting out of town fast - because the people who hire Harper have a funny habit of not really wanting to know what she has to tell them.Īt first, the little Ozarks town of Sarne seems like no exception.

She can sense the final location of a person who’s passed, and share their very last moment.

Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. Series: Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book #1 I also chose this book because it was the only first book in her various series that the library had in stock that I hadn’t already read. Grave Sight was one of the books that I grabbed because I enjoy Charlaine Harris’ light, quirky paranormal mystery books. On the very last day before the public library closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, I made a frantic trip to snatch up as many books as I could.

Grave sight by charlaine harris