They were not believers during life, why should they be angels now? Even average people, people you think of as "good," can be foolish or venal or jealous. Often, their spirits hover, clinging to the mortal remnants that housed them. I detect the final destination of the teenage boy who drank too much in the wrong company - a shallow grave in the piney woods. I spot the bones of the waitress who served the wrong man - there, under the collapsed roof of an old shack. I spy the man who went hunting with his enemy - there, under that tree, in that thicket. I soar above them, noting their remains, bearing testimony to their disposal. Those more hastily discarded are tossed on the side of the highway - so that life, having swerved away, can swiftly pass them by without pausing to look. Their bodies are rolled into gullies, shut in the trunks of abandoned cars, harnessed to cement blocks and thrown down to the bottom of lakes. Still, the author has an unerring eye for people’s quirks, insecurities, and insincerities, as well as an insistence on the complexity of motivations by giving even evil characters their moments of kindness.THE silent witnesses lie everywhere, passing from one form of matter to another, gradually becoming unrecognizable to their nearest and dearest. But the more answers Harper and Tolliver unearth, the more they are subjected to murder threats themselves.Įvaluation: This is a pleasant enough mystery, though it lacks the energy and charm of the Sookie Stackhouse books.
The mother of the boy hires Harper so it won’t seem as if she doesn’t care about her son’s wrong-side-of-the-tracks girlfriend. In this book, Harper and Tolliver go to the small town of Sarne, Arkansas, to find a missing teenaged girl, lost about the same time as her boyfriend, whose body was found and deemed a suicide.
Because for the living it’s always urgent – even if the dead can wait forever…” It’s an unpredictable work schedule: we live out of hotels, ready to hit the road at any time. “The way I see it, I’m providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living … I couldn’t do it alone – that’s why my stepbrother Tolliver travels with me, as my manager and, sometimes, bodyguard. Consequently, she and her 27 year old stepbrother, Tolliver Lang (acting as manager and assistant), hire themselves out to help find missing persons. Harper Connelly, aged 24, was struck by lightning when she was 15, and ever since then has been able to sense the location of dead people and also see how they died (but not who killed them). This is Book One of the Harper Connelly mystery series, by the author of the Sookie Stackhouse series.
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