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From Publishers Weekly

In bestseller Harris’s solid fourth Harper Connelly mystery (after 2007′s An Ice Cold Grave), Harper, who can not only locate bodies but also deduce the cause of death, and her stepbrother, Tolliver Lang, are summoned to Texas by members of the wealthy Joyce family, who are looking for answers behind the death of their patriarch, Rich. But when an act of violence threatens the pair, Harper realizes that the circumstances behind Rich’s death may have ties to her own troubled childhood in nearby Texarkana. Further complicating matters, Tolliver and his drug addict father, who’s recently been paroled, have an uneasy reunion that stirs up long-buried memories about the unsolved disappearance eight years earlier of Harper’s older sister, Cameron. Harper and Tolliver’s relationship, which blossomed into romance in Ice Cold, is the beating heart of the story and helps smooth over the somewhat rushed and questionably coincidental plot. (Nov.)
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I’ve previously read the first three in the series. After reading the Sookie books last summer, I went ahead and read most of Charlaine Harris’s other books. It is good enough that I’ve kept reading, but they are not so great that I’d highly recommend to others.

I do enjoy a quick read between heavier books, and this certainly qualifies. The plot moved along at a good clip and a couple of lingering mysteries were wrapped up. I appreciated that a great deal. I don’t love when something unanswered hangs around book after book. It becomes too large and generally ends in a dissatisfying way.

I’m sure if there are more in the series, I will read them.

I’d say 3 out of 5 stars.

As for books from the library, I have a LOT of great books waiting to be read, yet I’m in a bit of a funk.
So here is what I have:

Hollywood Station : a novel Wambaugh, Joseph
The girl who played with fire Larsson, Stieg
The lost city of Z : a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon Grann, David
Gregor the Overlander Collins, Suzanne
The last Dickens : a novel Pearl, Matthew
Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet : a novel Ford, Jamie
Karma Dunlap, Susan
Hardball Paretsky, Sara
I dreamed I married Perry Mason Kandel, Susan
Moonlight in Odessa : a novel Skeslien Charles, Janet
Catching fire Collins, Suzanne
Outlander Gabaldon, Diana