The best of the series. I am looking forward to where Harris takes Harper and Tolliver the next go round. ( )

Disturbingly satisfying. Harris bravely follows through with the hints and suggestions of previous books, despite the taboos and social squeamishness that might accompany her narrative decisions. A great read for a rainy day. ( )

An Ice Cold Grave is the third book in Harris' Harper Connelly series, a dark mystery with feather-light touches of paranormal. For those who haven't encountered it before Harper is a woman who gained the uncanny ability to sense the dead and read their last moment after being hit by lightning. After surviving a horrible, abusive childhood she and her step brother Tolliver travel around using her talent to survive.

In An Ice Cold Grave Harper and Tolliver have been called to Doraville, North Carolina where a woman, angry at the past sheriff's handling of the disappearances of several teen boys, asks Harper to find the bodies of the boys that surely must be dead by now. Harper begins her hunt, and to her horror finds not only the six missing boys, but two others as well, all buried in what looks suspiciously like a serial killer's dumping grounds.

Suddenly Harper finds herself not just blackmailed into staying nearby by the newly appointed sheriff, but a target of the serial killer's outrage.

As usual Harris offers a tale that features a delicate thread of darkness. There is true horror in this book, but by the characters trying to block it out, move past it and not dwelling on it, even when it rises up and tries to claim them, it becomes secondary, and undertow rather than a flood of dark themes. The characters are Harris' strength. They are complex, easy to sympathize with and as a reader you find yourself wanting things to work out for them.

This particular book is more scattered than the previous books, but it reflects the complexity of the serial killer nature. Despite the attention focused on Harris' other series, this is her best. An Ice Cold Grave is satisfying, page turner that fans of dark fiction should definitely give a chance. ( )

in my opinion, this is the best so far of the harper connelly mysteries. Tolliver finally confesses his love for harper and they get it together. hated to see grandma die, though . because she keeps finding bodies, im wondering just who. or what is doing these murders, to find out that it is the person i really didnt expect.

I thought this book was the best in the series so far. I like how the relationship between Harper and Tolliver developed but it seemed like it came out of thin air, at least on Tolliver's part. I have to say that there were some great twists in this book and some unanswered questions, most especially about Chuck. I would like to have them answered. And I would like to see more about Harper and Tolliver's family. All in all, however, a good book and I look forward to reading more in the series.