Grave Surprise

Its place in Harper Connelly

Grave Surprise is book 2 in the Harper Connelly series. It follows Grave Sight. It is followed by An Ice Cold Grave. See the full Harper Connelly reading order.

Harper Connelly can find dead bodies and sense exactly how they died — a supernatural ability she picked up after being struck by lightning as a teenager, which she now uses professionally, travelling from town to town with her stepbrother Tolliver to work as a paid corpse-finder for grieving families and stumped police departments. It's a bleaker premise than most of Charlaine Harris's other series suggests: Harper and Tolliver grew up in genuine poverty with addict parents, and the series takes their damaged…