Grave Sight Series, Harper Connelly by Charlaine Harris

Quite coincidentally, I discovered Charlaine Harris first with her Grave Sight/Harper Connelly series. If you like supernatural realistic fiction (which I obviously do) the four-book mystery series contains four compelling and suspenseful mysteries which Harper Connelly and her step-brother Tolliver must solve using Harper's uncanny sixth sense which she acquired when struck by lightning: She is able to find dead bodies. Despite the morbid topic, Harper and Tolliver are down-to-earth and likeable survivors of a not broken but blown-up home (their respective parents were druggies and dragged the kids down with them). Harper's acquisition of her dead-body sense allowed them to, when they aged our of the foster care system, reunite and start a business of finding missing persons (who are dead) and performing graveside gigs to announce causes of death (when it was in question). Throughout the series, two underlying mysteries emerge: Will Harper ever find the body of her sister, Cameron, who disappeared when she was a teenager? And will Harper and Tolliver ever realize (SPOILER ALERT) they are in love with each other? Each book is a self-contained mystery and perpetuates the storyline of the underlying mysteries as well.

This series is comfort food to me: I have read each of these books several times. My favorite of the series is Ice Cold Grave (the third book) when (SPOILER ALERT) Tolliver and Harper finally consummate their love in a passionate confession in a lakeside cabin during an ice storm. Great to read during your own blizzard! Unlike in the Sookie Stackhouse series, this book is the only one where you're going to find a half-decent sex scene.