Harper Connelly Character Analysis

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Harper Connelly is the lead character in the Harper Connelly mystery series of novels by the American novelist Charlaine Harris. The first novel featuring the character was the 2005 published title Grave Sight that went on to achieve massive popularity among urban fantasy enthusiasts.

Harper Connelly the lead in the series is a 24-year-old woman who comes from a family that is the quintessential rags to riches story. She has a brother Tolliver who is a product of her mother’s remarriage to another man when she was a teenager. Their parents were drug addicts and it was not long before their family had been decimated by their drug problem. But everything changed when Harper is struck by lightning which gives her the unique ability to tell the cause of death which she
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The team has been hired to locate a boy that has disappeared in Doraville, North Carolina. The case gets interesting when team weird gets there to learn that the missing boy was just one of several disappearances in five years. With her special abilities, Harper soon locates all eight victims that had been disposed of in a half frozen field. Looking to leave after collecting her fee, she finds herself embroiled in a police investigation that she wanted nothing to do with. Her involvement soon stands her in good stead as she learns the long hidden secrets and dark mysteries of the town that come in handy when she becomes the hunted in a strange town.

Grave Secret the fourth novel in the series is one of its most popular as it is a deeper look into the horrible childhood of the lead protagonists that resulted in their paranormal powers. The sibling’s father just got out of jail, and is trying to reconnect with his family, who unsurprisingly want nothing to do with him. However, they may not have much choice in the matter as family secrets ensnare Harper and Tolliver to change their lives forever.

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