The books, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, feature a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences.
Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of series, and soon had her own traditional mystery books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. The resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After holding down some low-level jobs, her husband Hal gave her the opportunity to stay home and write. Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. Charlaine lives in Texas now, and all of her children and grandchildren are within easy driving distance. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Soon, family secrets ensnare them both, as Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister, Cameron, so may years before.Īnd what she finds out will change her world forever.Ĭharlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over thirty-five years. Tolliver wants nothing to do with the man - but he may not have a say in the matter. 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. But, as always happens when they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface. 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. Most days, though, I was sure she was dead." 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. "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.
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