Traveling with Tolliver her brother who doubles up as bodyguard and manager, she soon becomes proficient at getting gigs, getting paid, and leaving the scene fast. For Harper, the unique ability is an essential service as she brings much-needed closure to the deceased family, even as most of her clients still think she is a blood-sucking leech. She can locate a dead person and share with their loved ones just what happened in the very last moments before their death. When we are first introduced to Harper Connelly in “Grave Sight”, she has what most people would consider an odd job. But everything changed when Harper is struck by lightning, which left her with the unique ability to tell cause of death of anyone, which she uses to make herself and her brother rich. Their parents were drug addicts and it was not long before their family had been decimated by their drug problem.

She has a brother Tolliver who is a product of her mother’s remarriage to another man when she was a teenager. 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. Harris wrote the Aurora Teagarden series, the Lily Bard series, and started on the Sookie Stackhouse books before she started writing the Harper Connelly books. It wasn’t until after college that she began writing novels, but she has had tremendous success since beginning and the world is happy that she did. She would later attend Rhode Island University where she began writing her own plays. Harris was interested in writing from a young age as she wrote poems about ghosts and teenage angst from a young age.

The series is written by Charlaine Harris who is best known as the author of the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires series that was made into the True Blood series for HBO.

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