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"While Tolliver slept, I wondered if it was possible that Cameron was still alive...At first, I'd thought she'd been abducted by a gang, sold into slavery, something lurid and horrible. Then I'd wondered if maybe she'd simply been fed up with her life: the tawdry parents and the tacky trailer, the sister who limped and looked abstracted, the baby sisters who never seemed to stay clean. Most days, though, I was sure she was dead."
Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as sisters. But, as always happens when they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface...
To make matter worse, Tolliver learns from his older brother that their father is out of jail and trying to reestablish contact with other family members. Tolliver wants nothing to do with the man - but he may not have a say in the matter.
Soon, family secrets ensnare them both, as Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister, Cameron, so may years before.
And what she finds out will change her world forever...
"ALL right,” said the straw-haired woman in the denim jacket. “Do your thing.” Her accent made the words sound more like “Dew yore thang.” Her hawklike face was eager, the anticipatory look of someone who is ready to taste an unknown food. We were standing on a windswept field some miles south of the interstate that runs between Texarkana and Dallas. A car zoomed by on the narrow two-lane blacktop. It was the only other car I’d seen since I’d followed Lizzie Joyce’s gleaming black Chevy Kodiak pickup out to the Pioneer Rest Cemetery, which lay outside the tiny town of Clear Creek. When our little handful of people fell silent, the whistle of the wind scouring the rolling hill was the only sound in the landscape.
There wasn’t a fence around the little cemetery. It had been cleared, but not recently. This was an old cemetery, as Texas cemeteries go, established when the live oak in the middle of the graveyard had been only a small tree. A flock of birds was cackling in the oak’s branches. Since we were in north Texas, there was grass, but in February it wasn’t green. Though the temperature was in the fifties today, the wind was colder than I’d counted on. I zipped up my jacket. I noticed that Lizzie Joyce wasn’t wearing one. The people who lived hereabouts were tough and pragmatic, including the thirtyish blonde who’d invited me here. She was lean and muscular, and she must have tugged up her jeans by greasing her legs. I couldn’t imagine how she mounted a horse. But her boots were well-worn, and so was her hat, and if I’d read her belt buckle correctly, she was the previous year’s countywide barrel-riding champion. Lizzie Joyce was the real deal."
Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris, born Jean Charlaine Harris Schulz on November 25, 1951, is a highly acclaimed American author best known for her work in mystery fiction and urban fantasy. She gained worldwide recognition through The Southern Vampire Mysteries series, which inspired HBO’s hit television show True Blood. With a career spanning decades, Harris has become one of the most influential writers in modern supernatural and mystery literature.
Early Life and Education
Charlaine Harris was born and raised in Tunica, Mississippi, located in the Mississippi Delta. Growing up in the American South had a profound influence on her storytelling style, settings, and character development. From an early age, Harris showed a strong interest in writing, initially composing poems centered on ghosts, emotions, and teenage experiences.
She attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, where she began writing plays before eventually shifting her focus to prose fiction. This transition marked the beginning of her journey into mystery writing, a genre in which she would later excel.
Writing Career and Breakthrough
Harris began her professional career by publishing standalone mystery novels before launching her first major series, The Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, starting with Real Murders. The novel received critical acclaim and was nominated for Best Novel at the 1990 Agatha Awards, establishing Harris as a rising star in mystery fiction.
In 1996, she introduced the Shakespeare series, featuring Lily Bard, a cleaning lady turned amateur detective in rural Arkansas. The series ran for five novels, concluding in 2001, and remains popular among traditional mystery readers.
Charlaine Harris achieved international fame with The Southern Vampire Mysteries, beginning with Dead Until Dark. The series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress navigating a world filled with vampires, werewolves, and supernatural beings. The novel won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001.
The series includes 13 novels, concluding with Dead Ever After in 2013, followed by the companion book After Dead. The books were translated and published across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, making Harris a global bestselling author. HBO’s adaptation, True Blood, aired from 2008 to 2014, running for seven successful seasons.
Later Works and Other Projects
In 2005, Harris launched the Harper Connelly Mysteries, centered on a young woman with the supernatural ability to locate dead bodies after being struck by lightning. The series was later optioned for television.
In 2014, she expanded into graphic novels with the Cemetery Girl series, co-written with Christopher Golden and illustrated by Don Kramer, demonstrating her versatility as a storyteller.
Personal Life and Legacy
Charlaine Harris lives in Texas with her husband and has three grown children and two grandchildren. Outside of writing, she has practiced weightlifting and karate, and is an avid reader and film enthusiast.
She is an active member of professional organizations such as the Mystery Writers of America and has served in leadership roles within Sisters in Crime and the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance.
Today, Charlaine Harris is celebrated as a pioneering author whose work reshaped modern supernatural mystery fiction and continues to captivate readers worldwide.
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