The Harper Connelly series is my third favorite series written by Charlaine Harris. First will always be Sookie Stackhouse and the vamp/shapeshifting gang. Second is Lily Bard and her non-paranormal peeps. Harper and her companion, Tolliver, are called out to Doraville, North Carolina. There's been a significant number of young men gone missing in the small town and the grandmother of the latest missing young man has hired Harper to come out and use her special talent to see if there is death involved. If you haven't read this series, Harper senses where human corpses can be found. She's been able to do this since she was struck by lightening as a teenager.
Harper does find bodies and also stirs up a hornet's nest of malice. A lot of action in all manners of the word....
All that said, I wasn't as fond of this listen as I usually am. I think it was a mixture of hearing the tune, Doraville by Atlanta Rhythm Section, throughout my listen. It could also have been DH groaning at each perceived error in research by the author...."It doesn't get that cold in North Carolina!", "They have the death penalty in North Carolina!They wouldn't just put that a**hole in prison for life!"....sigh.....
It may have also been the narrator. She had irritating ticks in speech that grated at the edges. Not enough to turn her off, but just enough to cause some dismay. I would have given it one more bean, but for those factors.
Four ghostly beans....
2 comments:
I haven't yet started this series, but I do want to. Sookie and Lily are my two favorites so far. ;-) I just love Charlaine Harris' writing and her characters.
Wendy: I am a huge fan of pretty much all of Charlaine's work. She has some excellent stand-alones, too. I'm not as crazy about her Aurora Teagarden series, but I do read one from time to time.
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