by Charlaine Harris,
This is the first in a new series by the author of the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries. In this series Harper Connolly, a victim of a lighten strike, has the ability to sense the dead and the cause of their death. She is summoned to Doraville, N.C. by a reluctant but desparate Sherrif. Six young boys have gone missing. The previous Sherrif seemed to think the boys had run away but boys keep disappearing.
Harper is given tips on a few places near where the young people were seen prior to their deaths, including where vehiles have been found. They eventually go to a barn on an abandoned property and she senses not six but eight bodies. The authorities are stunned by the news and the accuracy of her work.
Harper is devastated by the number of deaths and the amount of pain the boys suffered prior to their deaths. She wants to get paid and get out of town. However, she is attacked outside her motel by an unknown assailant and ends up in the hospital. When she is released from hospital she is asked to stay in town for the memorial service for the boys and agrees to do it.
She wants to leave town but then goes to another location where animal deaths were sensed but now she senses a human body and discovers a den with a victim, still alive, who is chained up and a local boy, who was accused of the animal murders, has committed suicide. His father is arrested but Harper thinks he must have had an accomplice to help him overpower the boys. The police agree that there probably was another criminal involved. Harper's hunch is right and the other man captures her and tries to kill her.
This was an okay mystery, it wasn't terribly engaging and the story of the pedophilia bothered me, it seems to be a very frequent story in books and tv crime shows these days. I am not sure that I would bother reading any others in this series, there wasn't really anything unique or appealing.
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