![]() ![]() ![]() While the pace is pretty gripping for the first half of the story, things start to get a little tedious in the second-half. ![]() ‘Grave Surprise’ felt a lot like a Christie mystery for the sheer fact that there were multiple suspects in the missing girl, all of them – family members. The artwork brings to life Harris’ work, and it feels like you are watching a television drama, with a whole bunch of characters walking in and out through the runtime. Co-incidence or conspiracy? The plot navigates through multiple twists and turns until the reader finds out what happened to the lost child. When a professor invites Harper to a recently discovered cemetery, she is shocked to sense a child’s body in an old grave – because it belongs to a missing girl whose family had recently hired Harper to help them. She can sense if there’s a dead body around and can even tell how they lost their life if she is close enough to their remains. The story’s protagonist is a young woman named Harper Connelly who has the gift of ‘finding’ dead people. Illustrated by Ilias Kyriazis, ‘Grave Surprise’ has some really bright and loud coloring by Tamra Bonvillain. I would’ve liked to say Christie mixed with Stephen King, but it’s nowhere close to the kind of dread, tension, terror some of his horror stories build. ‘Grave Surprise’ by Charlaine Harris digs into the cold case of a missing child and is like an Agatha Christie mystery mashed with supernatural elements. ![]()
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