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Grave Secret (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 4) (edición 2009)

por Charlaine Harris (Autor)

Series: Harper Connelly (4)

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Fantasy. Fiction. Mystery. HTML:Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver must face their familyâ??s troubled past in this gripping mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris.

Taking a break from looking for the dead, Harper and Tolliver decide to visit the two little girls they both think of as sisters. But as they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface...
 
To make matters worse, Tolliver learns his father is out of jail and trying to reestablish contact with other family members. Tolliver wants no part of the manâ??but he may not have a choice in the matter. Soon, family secrets ensnare them both, as Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister, Cameron, so many years before. And what she finds out will change her world fo
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Título:Grave Secret (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 4)
Autores:Charlaine Harris (Autor)
Información:Berkley (2009), Edition: First Edition, 320 pages
Colecciones:Tu biblioteca
Valoración:****
Etiquetas:PBS, M, series, #4, Mom has now

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I wasn't sure about this series when I started it, but each book got better and better. This book is a fabulous end to Harper's story and I was really surprised at the ending. The only thing that bugs me about this book (and the others with Manfred) is that we've been told his age a couple of times, but we still get "he's somewhere around 21" and "he must be several years younger than me" as if he hasn't told Harper his age more than once. But that's a minor irritant and one I can live with over-all. ( )
  amandabeaty | Jan 4, 2024 |
For once with Harris mysteries, I didn't guess the "ultimate" killer half way through. A good read for when you're bored, but hardly anything mind boggling. ( )
  tuusannuuska | Dec 1, 2022 |
The last of the Harper Connolly novels, we at last learn the truth behind the question of her sister’s death, although this feels somewhat abrupt, almost as though the first 3 books were a setup of Harper’s romantic interest, before the grand reveal. Entertaining enough, I’m glad to have read them. ( )
  SharonMariaBidwell | Sep 8, 2021 |
Another great story by Charlaine Harris wherein the long story of the missing sister Cameron comes to a conclusion. Several stories wound into one that keeps you thinking and enjoying the read. ( )
  Angel.Tatum.Craddock | Dec 17, 2020 |
"Grave Secret", concludes the Harper Connelly series of four books.

Harper Connelly's struggle to come to terms with her past, make the best of her strange talent and find a place for herself in the future holds these four books together.

As the books progress, the balance between focusing on the death Harper Connelly is involved with (she has a talent for being able to find the bodies of the dead and then see their final moments) and her personal history (abusive, drug addicted parents, abducted elder sister, relationship with the man she grew up thinking of as her brother but to whom she is not related) shifts in favour of resolving Harper's own conflicts.

The final book has a good who-dunnit plot that gets side-lined by what-happened-to-Harper-and-what-is-she-going-to-do-about-it. I think this was a brave and good decision by Charlaine Harris. Harper's character is what makes these books memorable and sets them apart from other paranormal detective stories.

I won't give away the plot, but by the end of the series, I had understood that Charlaine Harris is showing us that real bravery is making the most of the hand your are dealt and real love is about being willing to give everything you have for someone else.

I keep going back to the lightning bolt that struck Harper in her teens. This gave her her strange power. It created a bond between her and her not-brother. It set her apart, linking her more intimately to the dead than the living. It weakened her physically and drained her emotionally. At one level, that lightning bolt is a metaphor for all the traumatic events that push young girls into being adults before their time. Harper's story is the story of all those damaged women who choose not to let their circumstances define them, who struggle for dignity and honesty, who crave love but not at any price and who have to come to terms with their past in order to be free to have a future.

Throughout the books, Harper has a fantasy of a normal life where she has a house and a garden and doesn't spend her time on the road. This is a life she has never led and one she does not really understood. It reminds me of the Prozorov sisters endlessly dream of going to Moscow to escape the monotony of provincial life in Chekov's "Three Sisters". It is an escape from reality, not an engagement with it.

By the fourth book it is clear that what Harper really wants is to be whole. She wants to know what happened to her sister, to know how to be with her not-brother, to be at peace with herself and her family.

I think the strength of the Harper Connelly books comes from Harris' decision to write in the first person. We see this world only through Harper's eyes and her vision changes and matures book by book. Harris has a gift for dialogue and she has given Harper a distinct and memorable voice.

I recommend all four books. Here's the sequence to read them in: "Grave Sight", "Grave Surprise", "An Ice Cold Grave", "Grave Secret". ( )
  MikeFinnFiction | May 16, 2020 |
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Fantasy. Fiction. Mystery. HTML:Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver must face their familyâ??s troubled past in this gripping mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris.

Taking a break from looking for the dead, Harper and Tolliver decide to visit the two little girls they both think of as sisters. But as they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface...
 
To make matters worse, Tolliver learns his father is out of jail and trying to reestablish contact with other family members. Tolliver wants no part of the manâ??but he may not have a choice in the matter. Soon, family secrets ensnare them both, as Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister, Cameron, so many years before. And what she finds out will change her world fo

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