The Sound of Regret
DA Colm Truesdale Book 2
Trey Gowdy and Christopher Greyson
Harper Influence Pub
August 2025
The Sound of Regret by Trey Gowdy and Christopher Greyson is a dark, atmospheric thriller.
“That story had been rattling around in the catacombs of my mind for about a decade. It was going to remain there until my boss, Suzanne Scott, the CEO of Fox, brought me into her office. I thought she wanted to talk about the Murdaugh trial, but then she just asked, if I ever thought about writing fiction. I had written three nonfiction books at that point. Sitting in church services, letting my mind wander, that’s where I kind of wrote it. It was not intentional, because it was all one book to me, but nobody wants to read War and Peace part two. It would have been lengthy. This is really 3 books, not one. There were loose ends in book one, there are loose ends in book two. Everything will be tied up in book 3, but what I tell folks that ask me, ‘how could you do that to me? Why did you do that to me?’ In my head, it was all one book.”
The plot has the main character, Assistant District Attorney Colm Truesdale vowing to hunt down the killer of a confidential informant, but a prosecution witness is murdered. As he dives into the investigation, a far more dangerous threat emerges: a ghost from his past, a highly motivated psychopath who has spent years spinning an invisible web designed to destroy him. Every lead Colm pursues draws him deeper into the trap, blurring the line between hunter and hunted.
“The first book, if I had to characterize it, I would say it is the relationship between prosecutors and cops and victims of crime, which is a relationship that’s very hard to describe unless you have lived it and experienced it. They are trusting you through what is the worst experience of their life, if they live, and their family and friends are trusting you. Along with a little of a critique on the so-called world of drugs, which, when I was in federal prosecutor, most of my cases were drug cases. In this book the plotline was in the first chapter or so where I had the trial. I started both books off with a courtroom scene. Just because this is a book about a prosecutor, so I want the reader to know the prosecutor knows what he or she is doing. The particular murder, the man who was tried for killing his wife, I did prosecute a case very similar to that, but that’s kind of a head fake. The real story was the informant’s body that was found at Lake Saranac.”
With his career, his freedom, and perhaps his very life hanging in the balance, Colm must outmaneuver a mind as ruthless as his own, plunging deeper into the twisted psychology of a ruthless killer and into the heart of the relentless prosecutor determined to bring him down.
“The person who is framing Colm did not believe their daughter, but was going after Colm. Yet, the defendants that I put in prison for drug cases were treated with respect. They did their time, they’re out, they know they did wrong. They’re not coming back to get me or carry a grudge.”
People will want to read both books in order to get a thrilling ride.