Where the sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery was more Abby's and Frank's stories, their mysteries to deal with, solve and remain alive through; this seventh book is old Myrtle's story. Two mysteries, one from her far distant past of over seventy-years ago; and one for the future, a dire prediction (only a prediction as I didn't want to venture into the actual time of the pandemic because we are living through it and that has been difficult enough) of a pandemic from her grandniece, Glinda, the psychic, that will affect not only Spookie and its inhabitants, but the whole world. Mysterious bones are unearthed in the ground behind Luke's Hardware Store, and Frank and the sheriff are determined to find out whose bones they are, and how the victim died...even though whatever happened occurred over seventy years ago. This seventh novel also revisits some of Spookie's best loved characters and catches the readers up on what they've been up to recently. Then again, the town and its...]]> Fri, 25 Dec 2020 19:40:32 +0200 https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/665941-dinosaur_lake_vi.html https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/665941-dinosaur_lake_vi.html

Henry Shore has spent the last decade hunting for, fighting, protecting people from, and exterminating rogue dinosaurs in his beloved Crater Lake National Park, and the towns around it. Once the Chief Park Ranger there, now he's retired and, since all the dinosaurs are supposedly gone, he's trying to live his best retirement life. Except, for Henry, that doesn't seem to be possible...because of a new sorrow he's had to shoulder, and a new insidious breed of super-smart, highly intuitive dinosaurs that have suddenly emerged to again menace humanity. Henry is asked to track them down; and he's dragged back into the fray. Besides being asked to battle this new threat, Henry has also been invited by his paleontologist son-in-law, Doctor Justin Maltin, to join a top-secret government team of research scientists at Area 52 investigating the original and apparently ancient origins, of the earth's earlier plague of dinosaurs–and two mysterious alien spaceships stored there. What...]]> Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:20:37 +0200 https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/630446-the_ice_bridge.html https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/630446-the_ice_bridge.html

She'll fall in love again...with a man and the island. Charlotte returns to her Aunt Bess and Mackinac Island, a quaint retreat that welcomes summer tourists and allows no cars to renew herself and write about the island's ghosts.
She's come to help Bess with her heartache, an ended love with Shaun, and to renew a friendship with neighbor Hannah.
In winter Mackinac closes down and everyone looks forward to the ice bridge that freezes across the Straits of Mackinac.
Until Hannah disappears into the icy waters crossing it.
Everyone says it's an accident. But Charlotte and her admirer cop friend, Mac, don't think so. Something isn't right. Hannah was too smart to go off the path.
So it's murder...but why...how...by whom?
In the end, it's Mac–and perhaps Hannah's ghost–who saves Charlotte and Bess's lives when the killer decides they're too close to the truth and tries to kill them, too.

This sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery belongs primarily to Abigail and Frank Lester, my two main characters in the six book series. It's their turn. First off, it at long last solves the enigma of Abigail's first husband Joel Sutton's disappearance, and death, a decade before...the tragic event that sent Abigail to Spookie in the first place to begin a new life. The new life that would grow so big as to include a new love, a new family, quirky, but well-meaning friends, and the strange murder mysteries her new friends would drag her into over the years. As an unsolicited, and unwanted, envelope arrives from Abigail's now dead detective she'd hired a decade before to find her missing first husband, its contents sends Frank searching for the truth. The envelope's files are full of disturbing facts concerning the unsolved crime and it piques Frank's interest. Soon, against Abby's wishes, he's on the cold trail of what actually happened to Joel Sutton–had he been a victim of...]]> Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:57:43 +0300 https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/20976-scraps-of-paper.html https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/20976-scraps-of-paper.html
A widow starts a new life in a small quaint town full of quirky characters and in renovating her new home finds “scraps of paper” that make her suspect two children and a woman went missing from the house...30 years ago. Are they just missing or were they murdered? In trying to solve the mystery she and her ex-homicide detective friend put themselves in grave danger.Scraps of Paper-Revised Author’s Edition by Kathryn Meyer GriffithAbigail Sutton’s beloved husband walks out one night, doesn’t return, and two years later is found dead, a victim of a long ago crime. It’s made her sympathetic to the missing and their families.Starting her new life, Abigail moves to small town and buys a fixer-upper house left empty when old Edna Summers died. Once it was also home to Edna’s younger sister, Emily, and her two children, Jenny and Christopher, who, people believe, drove away one night, thirty years ago, and just never came back.But in renovating the house Abigail finds scraps of paper hidden behind baseboards and tucked beneath the porch that hint the three could have been victims of foul play.Then she finds their graves hidden in the woods behind the house and with the help of eccentric townspeople and ex-homicide detective, Frank Lester, she discovers the three were murdered. Then she and Frank try to uncover who killed them and why…but in the process awaken the ire of the murderer. ***]]> Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:06:50 +0300 https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/20477-dinosaur-lake.html https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/20477-dinosaur-lake.html
Dinosaurs do still roam the earth; they're loose in Crater Lake National Park...and they're smart and hungry.Dinosaur Lake by Kathryn Meyer GriffithAn ancient predator has been reborn in the caves beneath Crater Lake…and it’s hungry.Ex-cop Henry Shore has been Chief Park Ranger at Crater Lake National Park for eight years and he likes his park and his life the way it’s been. Safe. Tranquil. Predictable. But he’s about to be tested in so many ways. First the earthquakes begin…people begin to go missing…then there’s some mysterious water creature that’s taken up residence in the caves below Crater Lake and it’s not only growing in size, it’s aggressive and cunning…and very hungry. And it’s decided it likes human beings. To eat.And it can come up onto land.So Henry, with the help of his wife, Ann; a young paleontologist named Justin; and a band of brave men, must not only protect his park and his people from the monster but somehow find where it lives and destroy it…before it can kill again. ***]]> Sun, 27 Jul 2014 20:00:29 +0300 https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/630448-blood_forged.html https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/630448-blood_forged.html
An ancient snake-demon lies trapped behind the stone walls of an Incan prison; for centuries demanding blood sacrifices and scheming to escape. Then it discovers a pathway into the world of men, forging itself into a malevolent and cursed 357 Colt Python gun, and making itself capable of giving misery and bringing death to all who touch it. Through decades it torments, decimates, the lives of the unfortunate people it comes into contact with until a married couple, Emily and Sam Walters, have enough love and faith–and the help of a mysterious priest who's much more than he appears to be–to fight against and destroy it forever...and to finally send it back to hell where it belongs. (Originally a Leisure mass market paperback titled Blood Forge.)]]> Fri, 25 Dec 2015 19:40:27 +0200 https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/532928-what_lies_beneath_the_graves.html https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/532928-what_lies_beneath_the_graves.html

The 5th Spookie Town Murder Mystery is finally out.

Who wouldn't want to find a chest of buried treasure, ancient gold coins and exquisitely priceless jewelry, on their land? A treasure a sailor dead for over seventy years once found in the shallow waters of a distant island and later buried, hid, the remnants of at the end of his tragic life. The townspeople of Spookie have been searching, fighting and killing each other over it, for decades and no one has ever unearthed it. Abigail, Frank, Myrtle and her psychic grandniece, Glinda, are on the hunt for the treasure…and they might just find it with Glinda's and the dead sailor's help. For Frank, ex-Chicago homicide detective, there's also a new and dangerous case that brings him temporarily out of retirement and back to Chicago because it threatens his adopted daughter Laura's safety at the art college she is attending. There are three missing college students, young women, one a close friend of Laura's, and the...]]> Fri, 09 Mar 2018 15:42:08 +0200 https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/630447-winters_journey.html https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/630447-winters_journey.html

To keep the bank from repossessing her eighteen-wheeler and putting her and her daughter on the street, trucker Loretta Brennan takes a dangerous route to Wyoming with a winter storm approaching. She worries if she can make the deadline and navigate the icy roads since her driving partner husband died in an accident the year before.

At a truck stop, Loretta meets handsome hitchhiker Sam Emerson, who helps her out of a bind. She feels compelled to return the favor and offers him a ride to Cheyenne. Blizzards, a series of trucker murders, and a sinister truck haunt them along their route. They grow close despite Loretta's fear that Sam may be aligned with the killer. Is Sam a good man down on his luck or is she falling in love with a murderer?

1) Don't Look Back, Agnes. Novella.

Agnes Michaels is coming home. Home to her childhood town of Fairfield and the house her father lovingly built for her mother. A house surrounded by the woods where Agnes’ two childhood friends and her boyfriend, Tyler, were all murdered twenty summers ago when she was just seventeen. She was the only one who escaped, but not without emotional and physical scars. Agnes knows that the woods and the evil entity that lives in it have been waiting for her all these years but she has no choice but to return to Fairfield and her mother’s house when her mother falls very ill and needs her care. Agnes can no longer avoid her destiny. Because the killings have begun again and she’s the only one who can stop them. And with the help of a new friend and Tyler’s ghost, she’ll defeat the evil and save another child’s life.

2) In This House. Ghostly short...]]> Fri, 25 Dec 2015 19:40:28 +0200 https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/665940-waiting_beyond_the_veil.html https://comics.library.land/kathryn-meyer-griffith/665940-waiting_beyond_the_veil.html

The eccentric, and sometimes lovable, characters of Spookie have returned for another series of mysterious adventures. Frank Lester, ex-Chicago homicide detective and mystery author, after his and Abigail's long-awaited vacation is over, and they're home again, has once more come out of retirement this time to take the position of sheriff of Spookie, because of Sheriff Mearl's murder. In this ninth Spookie Town Murder Mystery story Sheriff Lester has two town murders to solve. Harvey, the strange homeless boy that Myrtle befriended, has now been adopted by the psychic Glinda, and her husband, Doc Kyle Lester; the Lesters have also welcomed a baby girl called Amanda...and a mysterious phantom deep in the park's woods beckons Harvey, seeking his help. Old Myrtle fears the ghost girl haunting Harvey isn't what she seems. Is she a benevolent spirit or one of darkness? With his new family's support and help, Harvey will find out which one. Book #9.