CHARLAINE HARRIS is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for over thirty-five years. Born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, she is the author of the Aurora Teagarden mysteries, basis for the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Aurora Teagarden original movies; the Midnight, Texas series, now a brand-new TV series; the Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy series, basis for the HBO show True Blood; the Lily Bard mysteries; the Harper Connelly mysteries; and the co-author of the graphic novel trilogy Cemetery Girl. Harris now lives in Texas with her husband and two rescue dogs.

Harper Connelly was struck by lightning as a teenager, and now she can find the dead.

In her third case, Harper and Tolliver, her stepbrother, are hired to find a missing grandson. But the truth is far worse than a single dead child, for numerous teenage boys, all unlikely runaways, have disappeared from Doraville, North Carolina. Harper soon finds the eight bodies, buried in the half-frozen ground, but then, still reeling from coming into contact with her first serial killer, she is attacked and injured. Now she and Tolliver have no choice but to stay in Doraville while she recovers, and as she reluctantly becomes part of the investigation, she learns more than she cares to about the dark mysteries and long-hidden secrets of the town: knowledge that makes her the most likely person to be next to end up in an ice-cold grave.

When she was 15, Harper Connelly was struck by a bolt of lightning. She recovered, mostly . . . she has a strange spiderweb of red on parts of her body, and her right leg has episodes of weakness. Sometimes her right hand shakes. She has headaches. And she can find dead people.
Now Harper and Tolliver, her stepbrother, are hired to find a missing boy. But the truth is far worse than a single dead child, for numerous teenage boys, all unlikely runaways, have disappeared from Doraville, North Carolina. There's a serial killer at work - but the more of their secrets Harper uncovers, the greater a risk she places herself in. As she learns more than she cares to about the dark mysteries and long-hidden secrets of the town she become the next most likely person to end up in an ice cold grave . . .

'Harris delivers a knuckle-gnawing tale populated with well-developed, edgy characters' Publishers Weekly
'Paranormal mystery at its best!' Romantic Times

Harper Connelly finds dead people - and a cold case suddenly becomes too hot to handle...