5.0 out of 5 based on 6 reviews. – Customer review on 10/01/2007

Heroine Harper Connelly can find dead people. She's kind of an energy sensing cadaver dog of a medium: able to feel the vibrations of the dead and discern how they died. In some ways Harper is reminiscent of Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake: she uses her paranormal skills in both private enterprise, and as part of police forensic investigations. And,like Anita, most of the time the people doing the hiring don't really like to hear what Harper has to tell them.

Harper is assisted and protected by her stepbrother Tolliver. The relationship between these two is complex, to say the least, and it will be wonderful to watch them develop in coming volumes. Harris writes skillfully yet playfully, and develops her characters in a strong, appealing fashion. All of the groundwork for a fantastic series is beautifully established here in Grave Sight.

In this first installment, Harper and Tolliver travel to the Ozarks to find a missing teenaged girl, presumed dead. They find her body deep in a wood, and plunge even deeper into small town intrigue, deception, secrecy, and murder. With conservative bigotry welling up around them, can Harper and Tolliver get away with their lives? Well, of course they can: there are many more books ahead, and I suspect we shall all of us buy them up like hotcakes. This new character is a winner.

5.0 out of 5 based on 6 reviews. – Customer review on 18/01/2010

Charlaine Harris writes in a manner that is easy and enjoyable to read, Grave Sight is just that, a good read. The characters are believeable even though they are able to do unbelieveable things. If you liked the True Blood series you should like this also.

4.0 out of 5 based on 6 reviews. – Customer review on 18/12/2006

If you’ve read Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse vampire / werewolf novels, then you might be a little disappointed with ‘Grave Sight’, which doesn’t have the humour of that series. However if you have read and enjoyed her Lily Bard mystery series then you will find many parallels in style. While Harper Connelly wasn’t brutally raped like Lily, she still has had to overcome a harsh childhood, which is referred to throughout the novel so you have a background for the relationship between Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver. Ever since Harper was struck by lightning as a teenager it hasn’t been so much ‘I see dead people’ as ‘I find dead people’. She and Tolliver travel from town to town finding the dead and getting paid for it. When they end up in a small town in the Ozarks, however, they find more dead people than expected, and the number keeps growing. They also find prejudice, violence, and the sort of secrets that make small towns so necessary to literature. Although ‘Grave Sight’ has little humour, even less sex, and is written in the first person, there’s an edge to the characters that, when combined with the gritty, realistic, sparse style of Harris, makes the novel very memorable.

4.0 out of 5 based on 6 reviews. – Customer review on 19/07/2010

Charlaine Harris has done it again, be it sci-fi/fanatasy or crime fiction, from the moment you start reading this your hooked. A great new concept.
A twisting turning plot that keeps you guessing until the end. I love the idea of having a brother sister team and not too much romance... yet!

4.0 out of 5 based on 6 reviews. – Customer review on 27/08/2009

I enjoyed this book but didnt find it as captivating as "The Sookie Stackhouse Novels" Also written by Charlaine Harris. I'm going to order the sequel though becasue just as the book finished i found that i wanted to know what might happen next. I guess im saying don't read it just because you like the Sookie books, But if you like a murder mystery then it's definately worth the read. Enjoy.

5.0 out of 5 based on 6 reviews. – Customer review on 22/04/2009

Great book and Series another wonderfull series by Charlaine Harris