The characters are such unique personalities that there was never any confusion about whose words and thoughts I was hearing. I don't like to repeat myself, so I needed the challenge of the third-person point of view and the different premise and setting." Harris says that the second book will be narrated by a different set of characters than this first one. Although some have criticized Harris's break from her usual first-person female voice, this third-person male/female approach worked quite well for me. In an on-line interview, Harris has this to say: "I was really stoked by the prospect of doing something new. In a break with tradition, Harris tells this story in the third person voice from various characters' perspectives, primarily Manfred, Bobo, and Fiji. One word of advice to the reader: Keep an eye on Fiji's cat, Mr.
As the investigation moves along, some-but not all-of Midnight's secrets are gradually revealed. Harris follows the classic crime mystery format: providing fair but cunning clues, throwing in several plausible suspects, and keeping the killer's identity secret until the end. The sheriff who heads up the investigation is Arthur Smith, a character who has jumped over from Harris's AURORA TEAGARDEN mystery series. The murder investigation plays out in a police procedural sort of way with brief interruptions for expositional information about the town and its quirky inhabitants. The investigation of Aubrey's murder uncovers one of Bobo's secrets: that his grandfather was mixed up with a white supremacist group called the Men of Liberty (MOL). Early in the story, Aubrey's skeletal remains are discovered on the bank of a near-by river, and everyone in town becomes a murder suspect, except for Manfred, who just moved to Midnight. His friends don't have very high opinions of Aubrey and seem to think that her disappearance from Bobo's life is a blessing in disguise. As the novel begins, Aubrey has been missing for about two months, and Bobo is still grieving because he believes that he must have done something to make her leave him. The primary plot line follows the disappearance of Bobo's girlfriend, Aubrey Hamilton. The group is friendly and supportive of one another, but everyone is holding back information of some sort. The first thing that Manfred learns when he moves to Midnight is that everyone has secrets and that no one asks personal questions. Private (and who has secrets of his own). Resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in There’s aĭiner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). It’s aĪ pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). Inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time But then, that’s how the locals prefer it. In a series that takes place in a darker locale-populated by more strangers From Charlaine Harris comes the first novel
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