But time runs short when a third body is found in the same grave. Suspicion falls on Harper, so she and Tolliver must prove her innocence by finding the killer themselves. The dead girl is eleven-year-old Tabitha, abducted from Nashville two years previously - a child whom Harper had tried, and failed, to find. Dr Nunley is sceptical when Harper senses two bodies in the grave - one of a centuries-dead man and the other of a young girl, recently deceased.

At the request of anthropology professor Dr Clyde Nunley, Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver head to Memphis to give a demonstration of her unique talent in an old cemetery. Southern mystery writer Charlaine Harris is the New York Times best-selling author of Grave Sight and the Sookie Stackhouse series. Ever since Harper Connelly was stuck by lightening as a teenager, she's been able to find dead people.

She is a strong, hard-working woman and in ‘Grave Secret’ you really appreciate all that she had to overcome to get that way.Harper Connelly is embroiled in a triple murder in the second paranormal mystery from bestselling author Charlaine Harris. When I was fifteen, I was struck by a bolt of lightning through a. The publication date of this novel was September 26, 2006. The official graphic novel adaptation of Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris, the author of The Southern Vampire Mysteries Harper Connelly, a psychic capable of finding dead people and reading their last thoughts, discovers a grave in Memphis with two bodies: a man centuries dead, and a girl recently deceased. Putting aside her ability to locate dead bodies, Harper is a fascinating character for her past alone. Charlaine Harris Grave Surprise (2016) Publication Order of The MatchUp Collection Books Publication Order of Anthologies Notes: Inherit the Dead is a collaborative novel written with several other authors. Read 1,420 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Grave Surprise is the second book in Charlaine Harris’ Harper Connelly series. This is very much true of Harper, and at several points in the book she quietly muses about how she and Tolliver ended up ‘okay’ despite their childhoods and genetics. She favours female leads who have overcome great personal tragedy, and been made stronger for it. Charlaine Harris seems to be really fascinated by how people’s pasts can affect their future and their personalities. Harper is a warrior, and Harris’s austere description of her and Tolliver’s past is chilling, but an amazing indictment of their character. Then she was struck by lightening and dealing with the physical side effects as well as the supernatural ones. Her stepfather would frequently pass her off to the highest bidder in exchange for pills, and she was the primary caregiver when her little sisters were born.

Most of Charlaine’s female protagonists have bleak pasts (with the exception of Aurora Teagarden) – but Harper has the worst of them all.