An Ice Cold Grave is the third Book in the Harper Connelly

Harper Connelly

Harper Connelly is the main character in The Harper Connelly Mysteries, a series of books written by author Charlaine Harris that were first published in 2006...

 series by author Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children...

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Plot

Harper and her step-brother, Tolliver Lang, show up in Doravilla, NC

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

, to help locate missing, yet presumed dead, boys. The boys have been labeled as runaways by the former sheriff, yet some in town believe different. Harper meets the new sheriff and one of the grandparents of one of the missing boys, who drives her all over trying to locate any signs of the missing. Near a vacant, unused property Harper locates not just the six missing boys but actually eight in total. Using her 'ability', Harper sees the last few moments of the young men's lives, learning they were raped, beaten and left to die. Soon the town becomes flooded with the media and other law enforcement agencies. As Harper and Tolliver prepare to leave she is attacked and hurt, forcing the duo to remain in town until she can heal. Slowly secrets become revealed and the killer is known.