The Grave Singer

Shepard & Gray, Book 2

By: Victor Methos

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon, Bailey Carr, Jaime Lincoln Smith

From the bestselling author of A Killer’s Wife comes an intense tale of revenge as Solomon Shepard falls prey to a vicious ex-con, who claims the prosecutor put him away for a crime he didn’t commit.

After a traumatic injury took him off the job, prosecutor Solomon Shepard is back to work, teaming up with Sheriff Billie Gray to hunt down Utah’s most dangerous criminals. Shepard has spent years away from crime scenes and courtrooms, but one of those criminals still holds a grudge.

Alonso Hafeez is out of prison after eleven years, and he’s determined to prove that Shepard tried him for a crime he didn’t commit. And he’s got something special planned: kidnapping Shepard and forcing him to revisit Hafeez’s case in an elaborately staged retrial.

As Hafeez descends further into delusion, Shepard’s only choice is to play along with the ex-con’s rapidly deteriorating sense of reality. Meanwhile, Sheriff Gray is working herself to the breaking point as she races to find them before Hafeez’s plans take a deadly turn.

With Hafeez playing judge and jury, hell-bent on proving his innocence, Shepard will be the only guilty party left to execute.

©2023 by Methos Inc. (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

The Grave Singer

Interesting book. Nice plot twists.
Really had me wondering where the line is between wrong and right

Strength

Great story. Really solid characters. Solomon is a man who has a great deal strength of mind. He knows his weaknesses too.

I love this series!

I love Victor Methos. His stories are always engaging and you really root for the characters. This book is the exact same way. I love Solomon and Billie and their dynamic is amazing. This book sucked me in and I can’t wait for the next one in the series! The narrator Timothy Andres Pabon is amazing and I hope he continues to narrate this series.

Disappointing 2nd installment

I’ve enjoyed other Victor Methos books and enjoyed the first installment of this series. I also have a high tolerance for characters behaving in cockamamie ways. This story had the main characters behaving in purely stupid ways.

The first 3/4 of the book was just a contrived slog. Solomon behaved in a way that made no sense if we’re supposed to accept him as an intelligent prosecutor. Also, later in the story Billy behaves stupidly (no back-up). The last 1/4 to 1/3 was interesting and exciting. It’s just that the rest seemed a contrived and awkward way to get us there. So, disappointed in this one.

Narration was good with the exception of the female narrator mispronouncing a few words along the way. It’s just a pet peeve.

Why did the second novel add another narrator?

I have thoroughly enjoyed discovering Victor Methos's novels; the Shepherd & Gray series is no exception. I have two questions: why were two narrators added to the second? did the narrators record their dialogue without knowing the other ones were also reading for the same novel?
Timothy and Bailey had completely different voices/accents for Solomon and Billie; Billie was a Yankee and a Southerner in the same book?! Why did the producers allow this to happen?

The story line kept me engaged, but the whole point of an audiobook is having a narrator bring the story to life, not confusing the listener.