Grave Sight

Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 1

By: Charlaine Harris

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

Grave Sight draws listeners into the intriguing world of Harper Connelly, a woman with a unique gift: she can "see" the deceased and how they died.

A teenage girl from a small Ozarks town is missing and feared dead. Hired by local police, Harper locates the girl's body in a nearby forest. But there's more than one corpse in those woods, and the second one raises questions no one wants to ask. Soon Harper and her stepbrother/assistant, Tolliver, are under suspicion. All they want is to get out of town, but they will have to clear their reputations first.

Charlaine Harris writes best-selling mysteries described by Booklist as "gripping and spicy", and praised by the Denver Post for their "goofy charm".

And hear more from the Harper Connelly series!

©2005 Charlaine Harris (P)2006 Recorded Books LLC

Critic reviews

"A strong debut that will have readers dying for more." (Booklist)
"Harris delivers a knuckle-gnawing tale populated with well-developed, albeit edgy characters. A nifty puzzle toward the end will challenge the most jaded mystery buffs." (Publishers Weekly)

awesome book

Could not stop listening absolutely loved this book. would recommend to anyone to read. Amazing.

another horribly edited book

I love this author and thought this was an interesting story. However, I did not care for the flat monotone that this narrator used. Much worse, I can NOT STAND the "mouth noises" heard throughout. I have listened to plenty of books on which I could not hear swallowing, burping, and lip smacking. Therefore, I have to conclude that any audible noises are due to a lack of good editing. It is enough to ruin what could have been an enjoyable listen. Glad I only paid $4.95 for this....

Harper has my mystery loving heart

I enjoyed Harper & her brother's relationship. Best yet i choose the wrong "who done it" .
Good listen & excellent 1st book. Keep up the suspense!

Ok

Maybe little predictable story but it was good, somehow I didn't like the narrators voice.

One of the Best

I loved it. Love this author and the narrator was wonderful! Looking forward to next in series.

Really love listening too this style of writing.

The author had me hooked on the Snookie Stackhouse series. I am now drawn in to this latest series. It’s really amazing. She has great imagination style of writing imagination everything. Blows me away. Can’t wait to listen to the rest. 📚 📖

I see dead people

This is not the Sixth Sense movie but anyone who likes that movie should get this book. the writing could be tighter. the narration could be better but a good listen nonetheless. A very solid series. wish the author would write more.

Entertaining

This series has an interesting character with an unusual talent. It's a nice change from all the supernatural creature novels. I don't like this series as well as the Sookie Stackhouse series, however, Charlaine Harris still does a good job of entertaining her readers. Good mystery!

Strong Start to this Series

I finally finished the last Sookie Stackhouse book in the series and it was as disjointed and unfulfilling as most readers claimed. But I enjoyed the early books in the series so much and didn't have a book in my TBR stack that was screaming to be read, so I decided to check out the Harper Connelly series.

I am very glad I did. Harper and her step-brother Tolliver weren't bubbly or vivacious. They didn't have the charm of Sookie and the whole feel of the book lacked the humor running throughout the Sookie series. But I found them fascinating. Kind of depressing, but fascinating. I found Harper's "magical" abilities a little creepier than the typical fantasy heroine and she seems to willingly be governed and controlled by them. She has given up a normal life in order to share her gift with people who reluctantly tolerate her and don't believe her most of the time. Most of the time they seem to be totally aimless, moving through events they would prefer not to be involved in, but feel they have no choice.

I could tell Harris was finding her footing with this first book in the series. I don't know if she knew where Harper and Tolliver's relationship was headed when she started the series. While this book did provide a good overview of the two and their relationship, it didn't really give the ultimate result away.

The plot wasn't that complicated and there were a couple of points why I wondered why the pair stuck around. But it kept my interest and the light story line allowed plenty of space for character development.

While Johanna Parker is hard to beat as a narrator on the Sookie books, I was glad another voice was used and Alyssa Bresnahan did a very good job.

Ok... if you can get thru the narration

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The Narrator!

If you’ve listened to books by Charlaine Harris before, how does this one compare?

Have always enjoyed the ones reads by Johanna Parker. Alyssa Bresnahan's reading was too flat, with little emotion, spoken/read in clipped, rapid staccato fashion. Did not enjoy this at all!

Would you be willing to try another one of Alyssa Bresnahan’s performances?

No!

Could you see Grave Sight being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

Not sure...