Grave Sight is the first of four novels in the The Harper Connelly Mysteries by American mystery

Mystery fiction

Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...

 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...

. 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...

, the central character of the novel, has the ability, a result of being struck by lightning as a teenager, to sense the location and last memories of dead people. In Grave Sight, Harper Connelly and her protective stepbrother, Tolliver Lang, help find the whereabouts and condition of a missing teenage girl in a small town in the Ozark mountains

The Ozarks

The Ozarks are a physiographic and geologic highland region of the central United States. It covers much of the southern half of Missouri and an extensive portion of northwestern and north central Arkansas...

, only to encounter a complex network of lies and murders.