Hired to find a boy gene missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver head there-only to discover that the boy wa...
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Jan 19, 2010
Jamie
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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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Apr 06, 2009
Jim
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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 bring More...
I'd give this book 4 stars, just because it was such a fun, quick & relaxing read, but Harris just annoys me by constantly bring More...
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Jun 24, 2008
Pat
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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 <g>)is genuine and sweet. They are mutually su More...
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 <g>)is genuine and sweet. They are mutually su More...
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Oct 02, 2008
Shae
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Feb 16, 2008
Diana
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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.
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.
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Jan 19, 2009
Kristen
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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
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Jan 13, 2009
Linda
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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....
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Jun 17, 2008
Barbara
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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 sur More...
The newly developing relationship between Harper and Tolliver is strange. I’m not sur More...
Mar 10, 2009
Genie
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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 sk
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Feb 23, 2009
Jaime
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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 th
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Dec 30, 2008
Lesley
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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
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Oct 17, 2011
Susan
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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, a More...
In this book it got a bit deep down a dark path of pedophilia. That made it hard, a More...
Mar 24, 2011
Lins
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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 h More...
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 h More...
Mar 21, 2011
AstrogirlM42
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Actual rating: 3.5
This series is definitely improving with each book. Even though I still don't particularly like Harper or her "brother", I do like the chemistry between them and I really enjoyed the turn their relationship took in this book. What has improved though is the story-telling. This is the first Harper book where I was guessing the culprit right up until the very end (in the previous books it was dead (pun intended :-P) obvious after a few chapters. It was a book More...
This series is definitely improving with each book. Even though I still don't particularly like Harper or her "brother", I do like the chemistry between them and I really enjoyed the turn their relationship took in this book. What has improved though is the story-telling. This is the first Harper book where I was guessing the culprit right up until the very end (in the previous books it was dead (pun intended :-P) obvious after a few chapters. It was a book More...
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Mar 02, 2011
Karen
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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 numbe More...
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 numbe More...
Feb 07, 2011
Erin
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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 g
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Jan 01, 2011
Yolanda
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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 som More...
It's awful how she always finds herself in the middle. I guess if a criminal's plan gets ruined by som More...
Dec 10, 2010
Jasmine
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Nov 05, 2010
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Aug 22, 2010
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 just
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Jun 21, 2010
Patti
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Mar 18, 2010
vylit
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I loved the first two books in the series so much that I wanted to like this one too.
Up until this point, Tolliver and Harper's relationship has been the best thing about the series, and while I am happy that Harris chose to actually move their relationship from subtext to text, I needed things to move a bit slower to be believable for me. Whether the characters are blood relatives or not, they have interacted and related to each other as brother and sister for many years at this More...
Up until this point, Tolliver and Harper's relationship has been the best thing about the series, and while I am happy that Harris chose to actually move their relationship from subtext to text, I needed things to move a bit slower to be believable for me. Whether the characters are blood relatives or not, they have interacted and related to each other as brother and sister for many years at this More...
Jan 06, 2010
Larissa
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In Memphis Xylda told Harper "In the time of ice, you'll be so happy". At the time Harper had no idea what Xylda was talking about, as is the way with Xylda, but now Harper is about to find out just how happy she can be while chasing a serial killer in the freezing town of Doraville.
Harper and Tolliver have been hired to search for a missing grandson. At the time of the disappearance it was put forward by the then Sheriff that the boy had simply runaway, but many others were More...
Harper and Tolliver have been hired to search for a missing grandson. At the time of the disappearance it was put forward by the then Sheriff that the boy had simply runaway, but many others were More...
Jul 21, 2009
Amanda
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This book was the most interesting out of the first three books in the series. There were many characters that were positioned in the story to be considered the suspect for the murders taking place in this small town. I found it interesting trying to determine which character was responsible for the horrible acts of crime. However, the responsible party was not revealed to the last possible moment.
This mystery was much darker then the mysteries from the previous books. The thought of More...
This mystery was much darker then the mysteries from the previous books. The thought of More...
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May 17, 2009
Kate
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This is the third book in Harris' Harper Connelly series, and of course, is as good as the other two - both of which I gave top-ratings too.
In this installment, Harper is in South Carolina. The grandmother of a missing teenage boy has contacted them to see if she can find his body. Not only does Harper find the body of one boy, she finds the bodies of eight. In this small town, a serial killer is at large. At once the place is swarming with police and the media. However, having had h More...
In this installment, Harper is in South Carolina. The grandmother of a missing teenage boy has contacted them to see if she can find his body. Not only does Harper find the body of one boy, she finds the bodies of eight. In this small town, a serial killer is at large. At once the place is swarming with police and the media. However, having had h More...
Dec 23, 2010
Vanessa
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I thought I was done with this series-I even said so when I reviewed the last book-but the holidays have a way of sucking the reading mojo right out of me and besides, Charlaine Harris' oeuvre is for me the literary equivalent of a deep-fried candy bar laced with valium. I just can't quit her.
This is the 3rd book in her Harper Connelly series about a woman who has an ability to find dead bodies and know how they died as a result of her being struck by lightning as a teenager. Harper an More...
This is the 3rd book in her Harper Connelly series about a woman who has an ability to find dead bodies and know how they died as a result of her being struck by lightning as a teenager. Harper an More...
Jun 30, 2010
Shannon
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4 stars...great paranormal murder mystery story with romance
A lighting strike survivor, Harper Connelly has the unusual ability to find dead people and read their cause of death. She and her partner Tolliver turned it into a business--traveling on the road as they work cases. Not everyone is accepting of her ability, some thinking her a fraud. The law enforcement cases are the worst--the cops are more skeptical of her power and the cause of death is more often a horrible foul play. H More...
A lighting strike survivor, Harper Connelly has the unusual ability to find dead people and read their cause of death. She and her partner Tolliver turned it into a business--traveling on the road as they work cases. Not everyone is accepting of her ability, some thinking her a fraud. The law enforcement cases are the worst--the cops are more skeptical of her power and the cause of death is more often a horrible foul play. H More...
Mar 10, 2010
Jennifer
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Harper is quickly becoming my favorite protagonist from Harris. . .she could even (amazingly!) outstrip Sookie. This installment really amps up Harper's character. Her unorthodox source of happiness has made her more rounded and complex as a character, rather than the overly grim and distant Harper of the first two novels, which allows us to feel closer to her and become more emotionally invested in her actions.
One emotion is compassion for the effects of the horrifically dead th More...
One emotion is compassion for the effects of the horrifically dead th More...
Jan 28, 2010
Chelle
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May 19, 2011
Dirk
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Harris is best known for her Sookie Stackhouse vampire books, which have been made into a hit show on HBO called True Blood. This is the third book in another series of hers. The main character in this one was struck by lightning and since then she has been able to sense dead bodies and get some visions/impressions of how they died.
So she drives around the country with her step-brother and they find bodies for money, or go to graveyards and ‘sense’ a dead person for a relative, to se More...
So she drives around the country with her step-brother and they find bodies for money, or go to graveyards and ‘sense’ a dead person for a relative, to se More...
