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The Secret Witness (Shepard & Gray Book 1) by Victor Methos
From the bestselling author of A Killer’s Wife comes the thrilling first installment in the Shepard & Gray series, featuring a young sheriff who teams up with a former prosecutor to stop a copycat killer. This is Reaper speaking. So begins an anonymous letter published in a Utah newspaper after a young couple is viciously murdered. Tooele County sheriff Elizabeth Gray leads the investigation into the double homicide, which is eerily reminiscent of a string of brutal killings years ago. When the letter leads detectives to yet another body, Gray calls on an old friend for help. Former prosecutor Solomon Shepard is still struggling to recover from the deadly courtroom attack that ended his career. He’s been keeping a safe distance from the action, teaching criminology seminars about serial murders and psychopathology—until Gray asks for his help on the Reaper case. As the body count mounts, Shepard and Gray race to unravel the deranged design of a copycat killer—and find themselves in a face-off with an enemy they never saw coming. Read more
“The Secret Witness” is a murder mystery so badly written that I’m quitting after 40 pages. It’s filled with awkward, clunky sentences comprised of poorly chosen words and errors in grammar, sentences like: “A slight trickle of fear touched his belly for the first time.” “Sickening anxiety confused him as to what to do.” “Her entire world became her feet pounding dirt and the sound of her hot breath as she grew more and more winded and tried not to think about the footfalls behind her and whether they were getting closer.” “The dead tree gave him an ominous, claustrophobic feel. As if the air pressed in on him and stuck to his skin.” So, the prose is no pleasure to read. The content is problematic. Although this purports to be a “police procedural” about the hunt for a serial killer, its command of procedure is woefully inadequate. For example, main character Solomon is a former prosecutor who, years ago, supposedly investigated a string of murders believed to have been committed by the same man now engaged in a new killing spree. Except, prosecutors do not investigate. They can’t because that would make them witnesses in the cases they’re prosecuting, and a lawyer cannot be a witness at the trial he or she is prosecuting. Other matters of procedure are glossed over or treated with a lack of precision and specificity. The characters are not compelling or even particularly sympathetic. Forty pages in and I still have no idea what anyone wants or why they want it. In other words, I have no idea what is driving anyone or why I should care. And the victims? The most we get to know about them are their names and the gruesome and sometimes implausible manners of their deaths. Amazon “First Readers” may well want to skip this in favor of another selection.
ASIN -> B09DYFXKYW Publisher -> Thomas & Mercer (July 1, 2022) Publication date -> July 1, 2022 Language -> English File size -> 3650 KB Text-to-Speech -> Enabled Screen Reader -> Supported Enhanced typesetting -> Enabled
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