Harper Connelly finds dead people.  It’s a gift, and a curse, a legacy of a lightning strike that nearly killed her several years earlier.  Traveling with her step brother, Tolliver, she makes a living helping to solve cases that leave the authorities stumped. 

When Harper comes near a dead body, it speaks to her.  Not in words, but in knowledge.  Who they are, and how they died.  And she shares that information with the authorities. 

When she and Tolliver come to the call of a worried grandmother in a small town that has had a rash of recent disappearances, she thinks it may be something far more dire than simply a spate of kids running away from home. 

As it turns out, she’s right.  But that’s just the beginning. 

This reviewer is a long-time fan of Charlene Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse novels.  This other series is a lot grittier, the protagonist not nearly as free-spirited as Sookie seems to be.  Harper is a haunted soul, and her relationship with her step-brother Tolliver is both complex and captivating. 

This is the third novel in the series, but stands alone quite well.  It wasn’t hard for this reviewer to catch on.  It’s a strongly written novel with strongly defined characters and a true pleasure to read with its combination of paranormal and suspenseful romance. 

This reviewer strongly urges anyone who loves the Sookie Stackhouse novels as he does to consider picking up something from this series as well.  There really is no comparison, but that fact is impressive in itself.

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