Branscom’s so busy busting Tolliver for a broken taillight that solving the case themselves might be the beleaguered pair’s only ticket out of town.ĭespite her nifty gimmick, Harris’s whodunit is unlikely to raise the dead.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. But after the beating death of Helen Hopkins, Sally and Teenie’s recovering-alcoholic mom, Sarne Sheriff Harvey Branscom forces the siblings to stay put, despite minor harassment by Vernon McCluskey, owner of the motel where they’re stuck for the duration, and more serious persecution from highschooler Scot Briscoe, who’s irked by the crush Dell’s sister Mary Nell develops on Tolliver. Even a budding romance with deputy Hollis Boxleitner, who uses Harper’s powers to learn that the drowning of his wife Sally, Teenie’s sister, was no accident, can’t convince her to stick around. But once she locates Teenie Hopkins, who vanished with Sybil’s son Dell, and confirms that both teenagers were murdered, her employers join the rest of two-bit Sarne, Ark., in regarding her gift with revulsion-and Harper wants nothing more than to get into her stepbrother Tolliver Lang’s Subaru and drive far, far away. The creator of telepathic Sookie Stackhouse ( Dead as a Doornail, May 2005) and other paranormals sets her latest heroine the unenviable task of finding undiscovered corpses.Īrkansas socialite Sybil Teague and her lawyer, Paul Edwards, hire Harper Connolly because of her unique talent for finding dead bodies-a skill Harper’s had ever since she was struck by lightning at age 15.
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