2007-12-04 An excellent follow-on

Story 2 in the 'Grave' series sees Harper Connelly and her 'brother' Tolliver Lang called in to determine the reasons for the deaths of various bodies in a town cemetary. No problem there for Harper, except during this visit she locates the body of a missing teenager previously mentioned in the first book 'Grave Sight' - and it's in a 200 year-old grave!
Hardly before the local police can suggest Harper and Tolliver had some ulterior motive for suddenly finding the girl's body, a third corpse is found in the same grave!
And, as in all Charlaine Harris's novels, there is plenty of action and mystery as the two try to establish the reasons for the deaths of the two recent bodies. Murder and mayhem are the usual bywords and I'm happy to to await the pending arrival of 'Ice Cold Grave', the third in the series. You can put Sookie to oneside now; Harper is definitely a stand-alone hero - not forgetting Tolliver, of course.