Review: Grave Secret

Grave Secret

Grave Secret
Charlaine Harris
Berkley, 2009
ISBN 0425230155
Hardcover

Harper Connelly and Tolliver Lang are going back home to Texas to salve a rich rancher’s curiosity. Harper is to read Rich Joyce’s remains to tell his granddaughter how he really died. What she discovers is nothing the family actually wanted to know.

Someone Rich knew greeted him on the road and flung a rattler at him. The shock caused his death.

But, while doing that job, Harper also uncovers that a household servant died in childbirth rather than complications from peritonitis from an infected appendix as they all believed. This sets the family looking for the child, who Harper thinks must be alive since she can only locate and read the dead–and there is no child in the cemetery.

Oddly, while Harper and Tolliver are there, a call comes in to the Texarkana police that their sister Cameron has been sighted at a local mall. The pair has never given up looking for their sister all the eight years she’s been gone and this whets their curiosity anew.

Not such good news–Tolliver’s father Matthew is finally out of jail. Matthew wants to reconnect with his kids and he certainly does not approve of Harper and Tolliver being together.

Thus begins the latest and most complicated of the Harper Connelly stories. Harper and Tolliver not only have to deal with the newness of their romance and their family’s reaction to what they consider incest (The pair was raised together but are not blood kin), they may have new leads on Cameron’s death, and someone’s trying to kill Harper and actually does manage to shoot Tolliver.

If you enjoy mysteries with a good supernatural twist, this story is going to be one you will want to pick up. I have enjoyed the Harper Connelly stories since the beginning, you do not have to start with the first book to comprehend what is going on here.

Reviewed by Rebecca Kyle.

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January 30, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Full Reviews

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