Publisher's Weekly Review
In bestseller Harris's solid fourth Harper Connelly mystery (after 2007's An Ice Cold Grave), Harper, who can not only locate bodies but also deduce the cause of death, and her stepbrother, Tolliver Lang, are summoned to Texas by members of the wealthy Joyce family, who are looking for answers behind the death of their patriarch, Rich. But when an act of violence threatens the pair, Harper realizes that the circumstances behind Rich's death may have ties to her own troubled childhood in nearby Texarkana. Further complicating matters, Tolliver and his drug addict father, who's recently been paroled, have an uneasy reunion that stirs up long-buried memories about the unsolved disappearance eight years earlier of Harper's older sister, Cameron. Harper and Tolliver's relationship, which blossomed into romance in Ice Cold, is the beating heart of the story and helps smooth over the somewhat rushed and questionably coincidental plot. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
The fourth installment in Harris' Harper Connelly series finds Harper a young woman who, ever since being struck by lightning as a girl, has the ability to locate dead bodies with her stepbrother and now lover, Tolliver, in Texas, to visit their younger half sisters. On their way, they make a pit stop to help two young women discover the circumstances surrounding their grandfather's death. Harper comes across another revelation: the grandfather's much younger caregiver gave birth to a child shortly before his death.Though intrigued by the discovery, Harper has more personal matters to attend to: Tolliver's father, Matthew, has shown up claiming to be clean, which both Harper and Tolliver doubt. Harper is also rocked by the news that her missing younger sister, Cameron, may have been spotted at a mall in Texarkana. The stakes are high on a personal level for Harper and Tolliver, which will hook followers of the series and keep them eagerly turning the pages to get to the revelatory ending.--Huntley, Kristine Copyright 2009 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Book 4 in Harris's Harper Connelly series; Alyssa Bresnahan reads. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
