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Whistle Stopper - An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 3)
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List Price: $23.95
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Manufacturer: Berkley Prime Crime
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425217290
ISBN: 0425217299
Label: Berkley Prime Crime
Manufacturer: Berkley Prime Crime
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 280
Publication Date: 2007-09-25
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
Studio: Berkley Prime Crime
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Easy to forget
Comment: I am a huge fan of this author but this book was easy to forget. Stick with the Sookie Stackhouse series if you like her and either put this one on the summer reading list or leave it be altogether. It just didn't give me a lasting impression.
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Summary: Almost 5
Comment: I'm really enjoying the Harper Connelly series by Charlaine Harris. The heroine is unusual, the story-lines are fresh (and a great departure from the talking pet formula). I can't wait to see what is coming next!
I would have given this book 5 stars, but frankly, the whole nad-licking scene was off-putting. I'm not a prude, but gratuitous crap like that is jarring and in my opinion added nothing to an otherwise gripping and exciting storyline.
Harris is a talented author when she uses her own voice and isn't trying to channel authors like Bertrice Small. Somebody should give her editor a slap upside the head.
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Summary: Better than I was expecting
Comment: After the previous two books, I knew where the two lead characters were heading. (Unfortunately)
However, the writing which got them to that predictable spot was REALLY good. And the character development after that point seemed fresh and fully explored.
The crime which serves as the reason for the book is disturbing.
But I didn't know exactly where the story was leading, and the last major plot point was a surprise. So this is the best of the three Harper books to date.
The lead characters have much more depth than was apparent in the first book.
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Summary: Excellent continuation of a fun & suspenseful series
Comment: An Ice Cold Grave was a great addition to the "grave" series. The story was suspenseful with both her work and relationship with "brother" Tolliver. This book has a bit more edge then the previous books, but if you enjoy a good mystery with an interesting and unique heroine, you'll enjoy this book.
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Summary: bestof the bunch
Comment: Charlaine Harris has some fluffy books (in the best sense), but this is not one of them. This novel is tense, real, and completely impossible to put down.
One of my favorite things about the series - and this book especially - is that the main character's powers to sense the dead are so very limited. Harper can only do a rather simple thing - exactly the same thing a great detective plus a perfect autopsy would do - but Harris makes it clear how this power is disturbing, important, and disruptive to Harper's life. Those very limits are what make her story compelling and feel real, fantasy genre not withstanding. A wonderful read, and the best of the series.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Hired to find a boy gene missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver head there-only to discover that the boy was only one of several who had disappeared over the previous five years. All of them teenagers. All unlikely runaways.
All calling for Harper.
Harper soon finds them-eight victims, buried in the half-frozen ground, all come to an unspeakable end. Afterwards, what she most wants to do is collect her fee and get out of town ahead of the media storm that's soon to descend. But when she's attacked and prevented from leaving, she reluctantly becomes a part of the investigation as she learns more than she cares to about the dark mysteries and long-hidden secrets of Doraville-knowledge that makes her the next person likely to rest in an ice-cold grave.
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