Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris

In this addition to the Harper Connelley series, Harper is asked by professor Dr. Clyde Nunley to cocme to Memphis and give a demonstration on her talent to an "open mind" anthropology class. When her and her brother, Tolliver, arrive at the old cemetery her unique talent neither expect something from their past to come haunting back. When two bodies are found in a grave, Dr. Nunley first assumes that Harper is a fraud. But Harper is never wrong, the body above the marked coffin in Tabitha Morgenstern, an eleven-year-old who was abducted in Nashville two years prior. Harper knew this body because she was hired eighteen months earlier to find the little girl. Tolliver and Harper realize that coincidences never happen. And that Tabitha being in this specific cemetary is very fishy. And when more bodies add up Harper has to try to keep safe without being thrown into a crime she did not commit.

I really enjoy this series, partially because of the supernatural aspect. I do enjoy both characters. Both Harper and Tolliver have a dark past and they find comfort in a brother/sister kind of well. They do have an extremely tight friendship that can at time be uncomfortable for the reader. However, they both are very thorough in their thoughts and because Harper spends so much time questioning in her head the read is able to understand more about her character.

My biggest problem with this book in the series is it is an identical plot to Grave Sight. Almost too identical. At the end of the book all I could think about was the comparison of the two. This book had no intention of standing on its own. I hope in the third book in this series Harris finds a way to use these supernatural aspects of the character to broden the plot. I really hope to not see the same plot again or I will have to stop reading this series