thenia 's review for:

Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris

3.0

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Grave Secret on Books On Track

The mystery of Harper's sister Cameron's disappearance is finally solved in this last book of the series and it's something I wasn't expecting...

Harper and Tolliver's latest case takes them back to Texas and many unpleasant memories, as well as the unwelcome news that Tolliver's dad Matthew is finally out of prison and wants to reconnect.

Their case reveals something that the rich family was not expecting to find and someone is unhappy enough to

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shoot at them, which leads to Tolliver in the hospital

. Harper is on her own and in danger and she needs to find out who wants them dead and why before they succeed.

It turns out that

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their rich client Lizzie's long time boyfriend Chip and Lizzie's brother Drex had killed her grandfather and tried to hide the fact that Chip had a baby with their housekeeper and got rid of the baby so many years ago.

When they failed to keep the truth from coming out, and after Chip discovered that he was dying from cancer, he wanted the truth to come out and take his accomplish with him. He admitted that they were responsible for shooting Tolliver and killing their private investigator friend, as well as the police officer who was protecting Harper, and then Chip killed Drex before killing himself.

While they helped solve a part of the mystery, Harper and Tolliver still had to confront Matthew, who confirmed that they were right that he had swapped the babies in an ill-conceived scheme to blackmail the rich people at some future point. What none of them realized was that Mark also knew about the swap, and so did Cameron, who discovered the truth and confided in the wrong person before going to the police...

Mark, wanting to protect his father, killed her before she could, and had been keeping her body in a storage shed away from anywhere Harper could find it.

Harper finally found out what happened to her sister as well as her body, with the intervention of her psychic friend Manfred, since Mark refused to tell her where the body was. Mark and Matthew ended up in prison, while their sisters remained with their aunt, despite the truth regarding Gracie's true parentage

.

It's not exactly an "all's well that ends well" story, but Harper and Tolliver do manage to finally put the past behind them and

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got married

, before going back to their lives and unusual job.


Previous book reviews:
✦ An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly, #1) ~ ★★★ (13/04/2021)
✦ Grave Sight (Harper Connelly, #1) ~ ★★★ (11/10/2019)