Grave Measures

The Grave Report, Book 2

By: R.R. Virdi

Narrated by: Travis Baldree

"This series is worth your time." (Jim Butcher, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Dresden Files)

What do shadows darting across the walls, cryptic writing, black fog, and a little girl who can see ghosts have in common? Paranormal investigator and soul without a body Vincent Graves has 44 hours to find out.

To make matters worse, his years of body-hopping and monster-hunting are catching up with him. He's losing his mind. An old contact has shut him out. To top it all off, something's skulking through an asylum, killing patients.

Three guesses who might be next, and the first two don't count. The writing on the wall is not so clear. But one thing is: If he doesn't figure this out he's a dead man - well, deader - and a strange young girl might follow. Vincent's got his back against a wall, and that wall's crumbling.

Some days it's not worth it to wake up in someone else's body.

©2016 R. R. Virdi (P)2021 Tantor

WOW!!!

R.R. Virdi really steps it up in this book. Action packed and fun with a great setting. Audio performance really pulls you in as well. Great job and highly recommend this read/listen!

A fantastic premise populated by fantastic characters

Really, really good. Virdi knows how to keep up the pace and make you care about the characters. I’m looking forward to the next one.

Fun

If you like Dresden you'll like this. Similar character and plot tools. Enjoy the ride.

Even better.

As Audiobook 2 in a series, Grave Measures hits all the targets it needs to. It expands the world, its characters grow, the story improves off book 1 even as it sets up book 3, raises the stakes all the way through and it'sthe same great Narrator as book 1. I enjoyed this book more than the first and am looking forward to book 3.

Who’s running this asylum, anyway?

“Good ole mouth- when my body freezes you just keep going.”
Vincent Graves has grown on me. I wanted a bigger cast of regulars than just Vincent, Ortiz, and Church. Like in book 1, the climactic fight scene ran long.
However, these were minor criticisms for an entertaining listen.

“It was like that scene from Jurassic Park: don’t move and the T-Rex won’t spot you,
i also resolved never to let Ortiz know that I had compared her to a dinosaur.”
This installment leaned into horror. But, thankfully, the horror is balanced with humor and sarcasm.

“How do I gank it?”
Hunh, turns out that’s a real word. After the upteenth time he used it, I looked it up. In video game speak, it means to kill with maximum effort, maybe even with dirty tricks. Whatever works when dark things need extermination.