by Charlaine Harris (Author)
Harper Connelly had a lucky escape when she was hit by lightning: she didn't die. But sometimes she wishes she had died, because the lightning strike left her with an unusual talent: she can find dead people - and that's not always comfortable. Everyone wants to know how she does it: it's a little like hearing a bee droning inside her head, or maybe the pop of a Geiger counter, a persistent, irregular noise that increases in strength as she gets closer. It's almost electric: a buzzing all through her body, and the fresher the corpse, the more intense the buzz. Harper and her brother Tolliver make their living from finding the dead, for desperate parents, worried friends ...and police departments who have nowhere else to look. They may not believe in her abilities, but sometimes the proof is just too much for even the most sceptical of police chiefs to deny. But it's not always easy for someone like Harper, for the dead *want* to be found - and too often, finding the body doesn't bring closure; it opens a whole new can of worms.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 18 Jan 2007
ISBN 10: 0575078839
ISBN 13: 9780575078833
Book Overview: Charlaine Harris is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author with her Sookie Stackhouse series US first printing of nearly 50,000 HBs for GRAVE SIGHT The THE SIXTH SENSE this is a cross-over supernatural/crime/police procedural thriller with a gutsy heroine The girlie supernatural crossover genre is becoming HUGE in the States A new female name to the Gollancz list The first of a brand new series 'An author of rare talents' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Charlaine Harris is published all over the world, including Japan, Greece, Poland, Germany, Spain, Thailand, Korea, France, the Czech Republic, Australia and Russia The last Sookie book, DEAD AS A DOORNAIL, has sold more than 60,000 copies in the US. There will be a new Sookie Stackhouse novel coming in 2006