Book one-seventy-six: An Ice Cold Grave

An Ice Cold Grave (2007)
Charlaine Harris

Rating: 2/5

I’m conflicted about whether or not I like this book.

I think I need to split the book into its two elements: the character’s personal lives and the mystery they were investigating.

The mystery part sucked. It was boring and there were too many characters and it annoyed me every time it took me away from the personal stuff. It was also obvious who was behind every thing. Just from the conversations Harper had with them.

Why is it that in Charlaine Harris books the villain is always someone they talk to… or know, or meet or whatever. Why is it never just some random person. Whatever.

The character’s personal lives part didn’t so much suck. And I’m glad that they finally, finally, dealt with the things they had been dancing around for two books.

So overall, because of the personal lives stuff, it was worth reading. But probably not if you hadn’t read the other two. It was also fairly short, at only 288 or so pages.

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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Finished: Friday 28/9