From Variety – CBS wants to see dead people (again). The Eye, no doubt inspired by the runaway success of HBO’s True Blood, is developing a series based on author Charlaine Harris’ Harper Connelly mysteries. Scott Free Prods will produce, along with CSI veterans Naren Shankar and David Zucker. Kam Miller (Law & Order: SVU) will write the adaptation.
The Harper Connelly series centers on a woman who’s struck by lightning and suddenly able to see the last moments of the dead.
Book Jacket:
Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who’s passed, and share their very last moment. The way Harper sees it, she’s providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living – but she’s used to most people treating her like a blood-sucking leech. Traveling with her step-brother Tolliver as manager and sometime-bodyguard, she’s become an expert at getting in, getting paid, and getting out fast. Because for the living it’s always urgent – even if the dead can wait forever.
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