In Grave Secret, Harris brings the Harper Connelly series to an end. It saddens me that I will no longer get to read anymore tales from this interesting character, but it ended very well.

Although I found the "formula" of this book similar to the others, it did differ enough with the family elements to keep it in my hands for two solid days. And although I get they are not bro and sis, the references to that all the time did kinda weird me out. All in all it is a great read. I hope there are more to come.

Grave Secret is a terrific installment in the series. In this book we get to know Harper and Tolliver, and their families, a lot better. And finally find out what happened to Harper's missing sister! With Charlaine's usual high quality writing I read the whole book in two days (had to work in there! lol).

Grave Secret is the fourth Harper Connelly paranormal mystery from Charlaine Harris. Harper, after suffering a lightning strike as a teenager, has the ability to sense the dead and to know how they died. She and her brother, that is, her stepbrother, Tolliver, who is also her manager and business partner, make a living by traveling around the country consulting for local police departments and people who want to learn the truth about the death of their loved ones.

At the end of the last book, An Ice Cold Grave, Harper and her brother - um, stepbrother - had finally acknowledged the nature of their love for one another and become partners in all senses of the word. In Grave Secret, they've returned to Texas to visit their younger sisters and they're not keeping the change in their relationship a secret, instead they're telling everyone they know, and most everyone is, to say the least, disturbed by the situation. Some are downright disgusted, and it doesn't help matters that Harper frequently still refers to Tolliver as "my brother." And, although Harper and Tolliver don't share any blood, they do share two half sisters, the children of his father and her mother.

With her ususal flare, Harris neatly weaves the current case, that of a wealthy Texas family that wants to learn the details of their grandfather's cause of death eight years earlier, with the trauma that drives Harper, the disappearance of her sister Cameron. Tolliver's father, Matthew, recently released from prison, appears on scene and although his desire to connect with the son he abandoned for drugs many years earlier is suspect, it helps steer the lovers closer to an understanding of the truth.

Charlaine Harris is a master craftsman, and endlessly creative. While not as suspenseful as the previous book, the story is more personal. It also had a couple of twists and turns I didn't see coming. My one worry is that as the story wraps up, it also has the feeling of goodbye, like this book may be the last in the series. I hope not, but if it is, at least Harris has brought things to a satisfying end.