An Ice Cold Grave - (Harper Connelly Mystery) by Charlaine Harris (Paperback)

About the Book

Hired to find a boy who has gone missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly discovers that he is one of several boys who have disappeared over the years. As she uncovers the town's dark secrets, Harper becomes the next person likely to rest in an ice-cold grave.

Book Synopsis

The voices of the dead become inescapable clues for lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly in this "winning series" (Booklist) of murder--and beyond--from #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris...

Harper Connelly heads to Doraville, North Carolina to find a missing boy--one of several teenage boys who have disappeared over the last five years. And all of them are calling for Harper. She finds them, buried in the frozen ground. All she wants is to get out of town before she's caught in the media storm--until she herself is attacked and becomes part of the investigation. Soon Harper will learn more than she cared to about the dark mysteries and long-hidden secrets of Doraville--knowledge of the dead that makes her next in line to end up in an ice-cold grave...

Review Quotes

Praise for the Harper Connelly Mystery series

"Charges in with plenty of plot."--Entertainment Weekly

"[Harris] has a great gift for getting inside her characters and making them amazingly real."--The Denver Post

"Grabs your heart and doesn't let go."--Gumshoe Review

"A winning supernatural caper...Should make Harper...as popular as Sookie Stackhouse."--Publishers Weekly

"A spooky but sweet amateur detective mystery full of interesting characters."--Locus

About the Author

Charlaine Harris is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse and Midnight, Texas, fantasy/mystery series and the Aurora Teagarden, Harper Connelly, and Lily Bard mystery series. Her books have inspired HBO's True Blood, NBC's Midnight, Texas, and the Aurora Teagarden movies for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. She has lived in the South her entire life.