Friday Recommends #10

So it's Friday again, and that means another exciting Friday Recommends!
This is an exciting book blog hop that book bloggers can take part in once a week to share with their followers, the books that they most recommend reading!

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• Pick a book that you've read, and have enjoyed enough to recommend to other readers. It can be a book you've read recently, or a book you read years ago - it's up to you - but make sure you tell us why you love the book (like a mini review). You make the post as long or as short as you like.
  
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Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
Amazon UK synopsis:
Harper Connelly had a lucky escape when she was hit by lightning: she didn't die. But sometimes she wishes she had died, because the lightning strike left her with an unusual talent: she can find dead people - and that's not always comfortable. Everyone wants to know how she does it: it's a little like hearing a bee droning inside her head, or maybe the pop of a Geiger counter, a persistent, irregular noise that increases in strength as she gets closer. It's almost electric: a buzzing all through her body, and the fresher the corpse, the more intense the buzz. Harper and her brother Tolliver make their living from finding the dead, for desperate parents, worried friends . . . and police departments who have nowhere else to look. They may not believe in her abilities, but sometimes the proof is just too much for even the most sceptical of police chiefs to deny. But it's not always easy for someone like Harper, for the dead *want* to be found - and too often, finding the body doesn't bring closure; it opens a whole new can of worms.

I think it's about time that I did a Friday Recommends post of a Charlaine Harris novel - I talk about her often enough but I haven't really done a proper review yet.
I chose the first in the Harper Connelly series because it's something different from the more popular Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) series, but it still has some paranormal elements as well as mystery, which makes for a really nice mix. I'll admit that when I first read the synopsis for this book, I found it a little amusing - a girl being struck by lightening, and not only surviving, but being able to sense the dead? - I was a little sceptical, despite already being in love with her writing. When I started reading though, I was instantly hooked!
Harper, like Sookie, is a strong-minded and amiable character, and I instantly liked her - and her step-brother Tolliver, who is an equally interesting character.

I really enjoyed the mixture of the Paranormal with the murder mystery genre - it made the novel much more interesting (although murder mystery can be interesting on its own, the supernatural element made it more unique).

I really recommend reading this series, especially if you're already a fan of the True Blood series.
Have you already read this series? What did you think of it?
And if you've not read it yet, are you now considering it? Let me know in the comments!

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