Grave Surprise is the second instalment in Charliane Harris's Harper Connelly mysteries. Although this is a series, I see no reason why you couldn't read this book as a standalone paranormal murder mystery. You may miss out on a little of Harper and her brother Tolliver's back story but that is all. Grave Surprise opens with Harper taking another case as part of her unusual job. She is invited to Bingham College to identify corpses in their ancient chapel graveyard. The college professor who organised the workshop is a complete sceptic. He doesn't believe that Harper can locate dead bodies, identify the deceased and state their cause of death. Of course, Harper proves ...  Read the complete review

Grave Surprise - Charlaine Harris No Real Surprise in This Grave When visiting the library with my daughter, I thought I would take a look for a new book for myself. There were two in particular which I picked up, both from the same author and seemingly from the same series so I thought that if I liked the first I wouldn't need to wait for the next. Unfortunately when I started what I believed to be the first book, there were some holes in the story which lead me to believe that it was not in fact the first in the series. On looking online I found that 'Grave Surprise' is actually the second in the 'Harper Connelly' series. There are ...  Read the complete review