I like Charlaine Harris's writing, and she captures small-town southern life very well, but I find this series depressing. Harper's narrative is a perpetually gloomy monotone, reflecting her dismal life, the details of which are repeated ad nauseam in every book. To make matters worse this one is about a serial killer who targets children, and I hate reading about serial killers.

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The relationship between Harper and Tolliver is creepy. Even though they're not blood relatives, they More...

The third book in the Harper Connelly series, it was a fun, quick read. Harper was struck by lightening & now can find dead people. She can tell how they died, but that's it. This time she runs into a serial killing & a lot of trouble. Kind of predictable overall, the details were fun to read. There are some added twists & turns to the plot that were fun.

I'd give this book 4 stars, just because it was such a fun, quick & relaxing read, but Harris just annoys me by constantly brin More...

I love all 3 books in this series by Charlaine Harris. Harper, the protag, was hit by lightning as a child and suddenly was able to sense the presence of dead bodies and how they died.

She and her "not" brother (her mother married his father) travel the country, helping families find closure when their missing dead are found.

Two things I love: the relationship of Harper and Tolliver (her "not" brother )is genuine and sweet. They are mutually supportive and fiercely protective. The other thing (as More...

Arriving in a small town in North Carolina to find a missing boy, Harper instead finds eight, and the hunt for a serial killer is on. When Harper is attacked, she and her stepbrother Tolliver are stuck in town, and are drawn into the mystery of who could be killing these boys.

This one was slightly more interesting, but with a darker twist. Things are a little hard to follow, like usual. The romance between Harper and Tolliver feels slightly skeevy.

The third in this series about Harper Connolly, who can detect corpses, continues with her first serial killer case. The limitations of her ability, as always, make it hard for her to help figure out "who done it," especially when all she wants to do is leave Doraville. An ice storm helps ensure that she and Tolliver get stuck there, however. The denoument is excellently scary and dangerous (though I figured out the threat a bit faster than Harper did). I could've done without the long detailed More...

I thought this was written before the sookie books because the writing was amaturish and the plot predictable. I knew who the killer was from his first scene in the book. I find it hard to believe that this was written by ms Harris. The Sookie Stackhouse Novels were far superior to this novel.
I realize it was the 3rd in a series and should stand alone but not having read any of the others i read the entire first chapter thinking Harper was a man. It sounds like a male name ... only to find out More...

After reading the second book in this series, I was about to give up this storyline. Harris has become a better storyteller because An Ice Cold Grave was better told than the first two. Quite a surprise in the life of Harper - hum....

Book 3 in the Harper Connelly series finds Harper and Tolliver in yet another small town, searching for dead bodies. In this instance, there are several who have died, presumed to have gone missing. There is a new sheriff and she doesn’t believe that, she with some encouragement (and money) from others, she hires Harper. There were some surprises and I didn’t know who did it and I always like that.

The newly developing relationship between Harper and Tolliver is strange. I’m not sure how they are More...

Third Harper Connelly mystery in the series finds the psychic sleuth facing her most heartbreaking job so far. She is hired to locate the body of a missing teen aged boy. She not only finds the body of this boy it is in a yard of a vacant house surrounded by the bodies of seven other runaway boys. Residents of Doraville, N.C., must come to grips with the knowledge that these are the victims of a serial killer living among them. After Harper locates the eight bodies, much to the surprise of skept More...

I find Harper and Tolliver to be rather interesting protagonists — two people just trying to make a living from an unusual gift and keep to themselves, but who keep getting pulled into other people’s affairs. In this case, the discovery of a serial killer, an attack on Harper, and several other events all conspire to keep the two in Doraville much longer than they’d like. I’ve decided that this has been my favorite book of the three, maybe because we actually get a taste of a happy Harper in thi More...

What an interesting installment in the series! I enjoyed the western North Carolina setting, and the serial kidnapper/killer thing was pretty different from the story lines in Grave Surprise and Grave Sight. I was most suprised in the change in the dynamics of the relationship between Harper and Tolliver; I picked up on it earlier than it happened in this book, but I'm intrigued that it happened this early in the series. (Obviously, I'm hoping there are several more books in the Harper Connelly More...

Overall I would give this book a 4-star rating for the detail of the serial killers, the fact that Harper makes no secret of the fact that her ability is limited to finding out where the bodies are, who they are, how they died, and how recently. I downgraded it somewhat because although I like the general writing and the plot line, I dislike the overall gloom and doom of Harper, as she is constantly prattling on about how bad her life was growing up. I also dislike the constant reiteration of ho More...

Okay so I wasn't overly gripped by previous books in the Harper Connelly series but this one was definitely much more exciting anyway. There are still flaws and it sure isn't perfect but the plotline itself was much better written and more exciting and fast-paced than its predecessors.

Harper and Tolliver are once again called in to investigate the disappearance of a number of teenage boys in a small town in southern America. The grandmother of one of the boys has called them much to the seeming More...

First of all, this book disturbed me...a lot. I'm not generally a massive fan of violent crime stories so the fact that this story involved child abduction, torture and rape really freaked me out. Despite this, I enjoyed this story, mainly because I think the formulaic nature of this series appeals to me; I like kind of knowing what to expect, especially in stories where I really want everything to turn out right. Anyway, this was slightly more cheery character-wise with Harper and Tolliver (her More...

Meine Meinung:
Charlaine Harris hat wieder alles aus sich rausgeholt und noch viel mehr. Im dritten und vorletzten Teil der Serie rund um die Totenfindende Harper Connelly wird es nicht nur extrem spannend, als die Polizei aus North Carolina sie beuftragt sechs Jungen zu finden, die zwischen fünf Jahren und drei Monaten vermisst werden, sondern auch Privat geht es heiß her.

Harper und ihr "Bruder" Tolliver - der eigentlich gar nicht ihr richtiger Bruder ist - werden zu einem Polizeiauftrag nach Do More...

This is the third novel in the Harper Connelly series and I continue to be enamored of Charlene Harris’s talent. On the one hand, she is writing here about the complex plot that is the story of this book; on the other hand, she is also writing a constantly expanding story of Harper’s evolving relationship with her stepbrother and always in the background is her search for her missing sister, and in some respects it is like reading two or three books at once. More than that, I am intrigued by Ms. More...

In An Ice Cold Grave, Charlaine Harris continues the story of Harper Connelly, a woman who was left with a strange gift after being struck by lightning as a teenager. Harper has the ability to "feel" the dead - she can find their bodies and tell how they died. This talent earns her and her step-brother/manager, Tolliver, a living as they travel around the country working for both everyday citizens who want to be sure their loved ones died of natural causes and law enforcement who need her help i More...

So I've committed to reading this series of Charlaine Harris'. If for nothing else but to see what else she can do aside from the popular vampire genre, which I like. Here I find the heroine much more interesting and believable. Her mystical gift is delivered to her via a lighting bolt. I like it. But also this heroine is a lot more sturdy and tough than say the other well known champion, Sookie.

In this book it got a bit deep down a dark path of pedophilia. That made it hard, at times, to read More...

I loved this book! But to tell you why, exactly, would spoil it... so I'll tell a little about why else I like this series.

What I have loved about this series is that despite being oriented around dead bodies and a mystery, they don't read like the hundreds of crime thrillers and forensic mysteries out there. Harper Connelly is not a forensic expert and she knows it; she doesn't attempt to do the police and other experts jobs for them, in fact she bluntly refuses! This character with her unique More...

I picked up this book immediately after finishing book 2 in the Harper Connelly series and, as other reviewers here promised (and thank you!), this is a terrific read - much better in many ways than Grave Surprise.

A bit of time has passed since the events in the previous novel and the relationship between Harper and Tolliver is fraught with tension. This is elevated to new heights when they're called to another small town to help with the investigation into the disappearance of a number of boys More...

LOVE. THIS. SERIES. I immediately picked this up after #2 and finished it in a matter of hours. Harper and Tolliver's undefinable relationship really makes it as intriguing and different as anything else I've read, and I just loved not quite knowing where it was taking them. Add to that an interesting case (if more graphic than the previous books, with 10 teenage boys abducted and murdered in a small town near Asheville) and some interesting characters, all in the deep of winter, and you've got More...

OMG! This book had a very creepy and depraved crime. And following Harper while she got closer to solving the mystery was a fascinating ride. Seriously. I felt so bad for her, because pretty early on, as soon as she finds the first lot of graves in the snow, someone attacks her and she has to spend a few days in the hospital. Of course, that's not the only time she gets into trouble.

It's awful how she always finds herself in the middle. I guess if a criminal's plan gets ruined by someone, they l More...

An Ice Cold Grave is the third book in Charlaine Harris’ Harper Connelly series. This time Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver are headed to small town Doraville, NC to search for a missing boy. What they discover instead are multiple bodies of boys, suspected runaways, who have disappeared over the years. Now involved with a possible serial killer case, Harper and Tolliver are stuck in icy Doraville where they will be torn between wanted to leave and wanting to see justice prevail. But justice More...