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".

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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)

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.

Why Charlaine Harris is not my favorite author.

Charlaine Harris is a talented writer; there is no doubt about that. She can create interesting characters and she often comes up with a good plot. I have read all the books in this series, the first seven or eight books in the Sookie series, and a few of her other books as well. But she has one flaw which seems to pervade all her writing and which keeps me from putting her on any list of my favorite authors: Her negativity.

If I had only read this series, I might have thought that the constant negativity was a trait of this book's main character. But this same attitude is present in the Sookie books as well, which leads me to believe that it is a basic way of thought not of any character but of the author herself. Let me explain.

Pretty much every single character in this series except the main character and her brother is bad in some way. Some examples: One woman is sweet but stupid. An otherwise good man is willing to hide evidence that one of his adult offspring has murdered a child. Many people are insincere. Many people are unwilling to be helpful unless there is something in it for them. One man wants Harper and is willing to behave unethically if it will get him what he wants. The majority of people are rude straight out of the box.

The main character, Harper, has a single psychic talent. She uses this talent to earn her living. She points out that she must earn a living. She is not independently wealthy. She can't afford to take a week off from a job at Walmart to travel somewhere and help people out. This fact might seem to be worthwhile to mention once in each book, but it seems to have to be gone over with every new person that Harper meets. I have met some people that believed things that I thought were absurd, but I generally don't say so to the person's face. It wouldn't be polite. But about 90 percent of the people Harper comes in contact with feel compelled to tell her within moments of meeting her that they think she is weird, crazy or evil for taking money for fooling people into believing her. Even the people who have hired her seem to take this attitude, which I find particularly strange because I wouldn't hire a psychic if I didn't believe in her abilities. And then after she performs her job and it is clear that she can do what she says, people seem to hate her even more.... what? I find the behavior of the police in these books particularly offputting. I don't have any real, personal experience with police, but it stands to reason that if they are trying to get someone's cooperation, it wouldn't be a good idea to start out by accusing them of lying, fraud and complicity in murder. And yet time after time that is exactly what every policeman in this series does.

Okay. I've already said that I've read every book in this series. So the good things about Harris's writing outweigh the constant negative onslaught. If you have read and liked the Sookie books, then I think chances are good that you will like this series. If you haven't read the Sookie books, then I recommend that you try the first one in this series. But be aware that the negativity in the rest of the series is about the same in all of them, so if it wears on you, take that into consideration when deciding whether or not to go on.

If you want some recommendations of authors who write in the same genre and whom I like better than Harris, try: Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Patricia Briggs, Tanya Huff, and the early books in Laurel K Hamilton's Anita Blake series.

Enjoyable

Interesting characters and a good reader make up for a weak mystery. Maybe listening at 2, twenty-minute sessions a day during commuting gave me too much time to think about it, but the mystery and the culprit were clear from about 1/3 of the way through.

What a great beginning to an excellent series

I confess I am on book 4 now!!! I love this series. It has all sorts of excitement with a mystery tossed in. I sincerely wish there were other books to follow.

Wow! Excellent

This was totally unexpected. The characters were different. The paranormal aspect was unusual which made for a fascinating story.