All Things Slip Away - Softcover
Blurb of All Things Slip Away, the second in the Spookie Town Mysteries series by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Ten years ago Frank Lester, a Chicago homicide detective, thought he had rid himself forever of the Mud People Killer who'd kidnapped and murdered six people. Frank had shot him as he'd fled through a snowy night; had killed him, he believed, though a body was never found.
But the killer wasn't dead. He'd only been waiting to take his revenge on Frank and those he cares about now...ten years later. Frank retired early and is living back in his hometown of Spookie when the killer resurfaces to take up where he left off. Kidnapping more innocents and tormenting Frank and the people he cares about.
Unless Frank and his artist girlfriend, Abigail Sutton, can find and stop him before he kills more people and perhaps both of them.
Ten years ago Frank Lester, a Chicago homicide detective, thought he had rid himself forever of the Mud People Killer who'd kidnapped and murdered six people. Frank had shot him as he'd fled through a snowy night; had killed him, he believed, though a body was never found.
But the killer wasn't dead. He'd only been waiting to take his revenge on Frank and those he cares about now...ten years later. Frank retired early and is living back in his hometown of Spookie when the killer resurfaces to take up where he left off. Kidnapping more innocents and tormenting Frank and the people he cares about.
Unless Frank and his artist girlfriend, Abigail Sutton, can find and stop him before he kills more people and perhaps both of them.
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From the Author:
The Story of Scraps of Paper and All Things Slip Away (Update 2019: Now there are also three more sequels: Ghosts Beneath Us, Witches Among Us and What Lies Beneath the Graves...and #6 is being written now.)
The Spookie Town Murder Mystery series by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
I wrote this murder mystery series (first 2 books), set in this quaint, quirky little town I tongue-in-cheek called Spookie, between 2002 and 2006. Most of my books before were horror novels, so the town's name was a tip-of-the-hat to my horror roots. My first venture into that genre, which I'd always loved. Sherlock Holmes. Murder She Wrote. Inspector Morse. Miss Marple. I'd written the first book, Scraps of Paper, and then, soon after, a second I called All Things Slip Away (continuing the adventures of Frank and Abigail, this time on the trail of a serial killer) for Avalon Books. I got a small advance up front for each one.
It was 2002. I'd come out of a lengthy publishing dry spell. My seventh paperback novel, Zebra's The Calling, a ghost story with an ancient Egyptian theme, had come out in 1994. Then they dumped a lot of us mid-list horror writers, me included, saying horror was dying; and for eight years I couldn't sell another book. Well, living my life got in the way during some of that time. I'd lost my long-time good-paying graphic artist job in 1994 and had to find another one. My next jobs, the pay was a lot less. No good for my budget or my standard of living, which really fell. I went from one of five bad jobs to another over the next six years...each worse and lower paying than the one before. Each more demanding. I needed to make money. No longer could I live with pie-in-the-sky literary dreams. I had to face reality. So I stopped writing for a while.
When I finally came up for breath and my head was back on straight again I decided to write something different...a mystery. I'd always loved mysteries. I began writing Scraps of Paper: about a woman, an artist named Jenny, whose husband has been missing for two years, and who's just learned he's been dead all that time-a victim of a gone-wrong mugging. She begins a new life and moves to a small town full of fog, quirky townspeople and mysteries. And right away she's drawn into one of her own when she buys, renovates, a fixer-upper house and uncovers hidden in it scraps of paper written by two young children who once lived there with their mother, and who supposedly drove away thirty years before and were never seen again. The town thought they simply went somewhere else; began a new life. But Jenny suspects they never left the house; suspects they'd been murdered. Then she finds three graves in the woods behind the house.
Of course, with her history of a missing husband she develops the overpowering urge to find out what happened to them. The scraps of paper she continues to find makes the bond, the desire, stronger. She forms a friendship with an ex-homicide cop, Frank, and together they try to solve the mystery. Only thing is there's someone still living in the town that just as desperately doesn't want them to. Someone who'd kill to keep the murderer's identity secret.
When done I was proud of it. Thought it was good. I sent it to Avalon Books in New York. They loved it and bought it. I signed the contract, though I didn't like some of the things in it. But I was desperate. I hadn't had a book published in so long and, as my mom always said, beggars can't be choosers. I sold them the second in the series, hoping it'd help sell the first. All Things Slip Away zeroed in more on Frank, the ex-homicide detective, when a seial killer from his past threatens their peaceful town of Spookie and both their lives. They got great reviews. But I came to regret signing both those contracts more as every year went by because I never received one penny more for either book for the next ten years. I know, it sounds impossible. But it happened to me. I'm sure it happened to a lot of their authors. Probably one of the reasons Avalon Books sold themselves lock-stock-and-barrel to Amazon Publishing in June of 2012 and, without their authors' knowledge or permission, including mine, sold away their authors' contracts from under them as well. I guess you live and learn. Scraps of Paper's contract had run out so I took the book back and self-published it, but was happy to let Thomas & Mercer (the mystery imprint of Amazon Publishing) publish the second in the series, All Things Slip Away. Later, I even took that book back and self-published it....eventually self-publishing all my books going back to my first (1984). Now I have 28 novels and 12 short stories self-published; in paperbacks and Audible audio books, too.
But, all my problems with legacy publishers are in the past, and my rewritten Scraps of Paper and its four sequels are now available, each on sale for $5.99 everywhere; in paperbacks and Audible audio books, as well. And people seem to like them so much I'm writing a 6th one now. Thank you, Kathryn Meyer Griffith rdgriff@htc.net 2019***
About the Author:
The Spookie Town Murder Mystery series by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
I wrote this murder mystery series (first 2 books), set in this quaint, quirky little town I tongue-in-cheek called Spookie, between 2002 and 2006. Most of my books before were horror novels, so the town's name was a tip-of-the-hat to my horror roots. My first venture into that genre, which I'd always loved. Sherlock Holmes. Murder She Wrote. Inspector Morse. Miss Marple. I'd written the first book, Scraps of Paper, and then, soon after, a second I called All Things Slip Away (continuing the adventures of Frank and Abigail, this time on the trail of a serial killer) for Avalon Books. I got a small advance up front for each one.
It was 2002. I'd come out of a lengthy publishing dry spell. My seventh paperback novel, Zebra's The Calling, a ghost story with an ancient Egyptian theme, had come out in 1994. Then they dumped a lot of us mid-list horror writers, me included, saying horror was dying; and for eight years I couldn't sell another book. Well, living my life got in the way during some of that time. I'd lost my long-time good-paying graphic artist job in 1994 and had to find another one. My next jobs, the pay was a lot less. No good for my budget or my standard of living, which really fell. I went from one of five bad jobs to another over the next six years...each worse and lower paying than the one before. Each more demanding. I needed to make money. No longer could I live with pie-in-the-sky literary dreams. I had to face reality. So I stopped writing for a while.
When I finally came up for breath and my head was back on straight again I decided to write something different...a mystery. I'd always loved mysteries. I began writing Scraps of Paper: about a woman, an artist named Jenny, whose husband has been missing for two years, and who's just learned he's been dead all that time-a victim of a gone-wrong mugging. She begins a new life and moves to a small town full of fog, quirky townspeople and mysteries. And right away she's drawn into one of her own when she buys, renovates, a fixer-upper house and uncovers hidden in it scraps of paper written by two young children who once lived there with their mother, and who supposedly drove away thirty years before and were never seen again. The town thought they simply went somewhere else; began a new life. But Jenny suspects they never left the house; suspects they'd been murdered. Then she finds three graves in the woods behind the house.
Of course, with her history of a missing husband she develops the overpowering urge to find out what happened to them. The scraps of paper she continues to find makes the bond, the desire, stronger. She forms a friendship with an ex-homicide cop, Frank, and together they try to solve the mystery. Only thing is there's someone still living in the town that just as desperately doesn't want them to. Someone who'd kill to keep the murderer's identity secret.
When done I was proud of it. Thought it was good. I sent it to Avalon Books in New York. They loved it and bought it. I signed the contract, though I didn't like some of the things in it. But I was desperate. I hadn't had a book published in so long and, as my mom always said, beggars can't be choosers. I sold them the second in the series, hoping it'd help sell the first. All Things Slip Away zeroed in more on Frank, the ex-homicide detective, when a seial killer from his past threatens their peaceful town of Spookie and both their lives. They got great reviews. But I came to regret signing both those contracts more as every year went by because I never received one penny more for either book for the next ten years. I know, it sounds impossible. But it happened to me. I'm sure it happened to a lot of their authors. Probably one of the reasons Avalon Books sold themselves lock-stock-and-barrel to Amazon Publishing in June of 2012 and, without their authors' knowledge or permission, including mine, sold away their authors' contracts from under them as well. I guess you live and learn. Scraps of Paper's contract had run out so I took the book back and self-published it, but was happy to let Thomas & Mercer (the mystery imprint of Amazon Publishing) publish the second in the series, All Things Slip Away. Later, I even took that book back and self-published it....eventually self-publishing all my books going back to my first (1984). Now I have 28 novels and 12 short stories self-published; in paperbacks and Audible audio books, too.
But, all my problems with legacy publishers are in the past, and my rewritten Scraps of Paper and its four sequels are now available, each on sale for $5.99 everywhere; in paperbacks and Audible audio books, as well. And people seem to like them so much I'm writing a 6th one now. Thank you, Kathryn Meyer Griffith rdgriff@htc.net 2019***
Kathryn Meyer Griffith has been a writer for over 41 years and has had 18 novels, 2 novellas and 12 short stories published with Zebra Books, Leisure Books, Avalon Books, The Wild Rose Press, Damnation Books/Eternal Press since 1984; and now also Amazon Publishing and Amazon Kindle. And her romantic end-of-the-world horror novel THE LAST VAMPIRE-Revised Author's Edition was a 2012 EPIC eBook Awards Finalist Nominee.
Her books (most out again from Damnation Books and Eternal Press): Evil Stalks the Night, The Heart of the Rose, Blood Forge, Vampire Blood, The Last Vampire, Witches, The Nameless One short story, The Calling, Scraps of Paper, All Things Slip Away, Egyptian Heart, Winter's Journey, The Ice Bridge, Don't Look Back, Agnes novella, In This House short story, BEFORE THE END: A Time of Demons, The Woman in Crimson, The Guide to Writing Paranormal Fiction: Volume 1 (I did the Introduction), Telling Tales of Terror (I did the chapter Putting the Occult in Your Fiction). Dinosaur Lake; Four Spooky Short Stories; Human No Longer; Scraps of Paper-Revised Author's Edition and All Things Slip Away are all for sale on Amazon Kindle Direct. ***
All Kathryn Meyer Griffith's Books available at Amazon.com here: amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Kathryn+Meyer+Griffith
Her books (most out again from Damnation Books and Eternal Press): Evil Stalks the Night, The Heart of the Rose, Blood Forge, Vampire Blood, The Last Vampire, Witches, The Nameless One short story, The Calling, Scraps of Paper, All Things Slip Away, Egyptian Heart, Winter's Journey, The Ice Bridge, Don't Look Back, Agnes novella, In This House short story, BEFORE THE END: A Time of Demons, The Woman in Crimson, The Guide to Writing Paranormal Fiction: Volume 1 (I did the Introduction), Telling Tales of Terror (I did the chapter Putting the Occult in Your Fiction). Dinosaur Lake; Four Spooky Short Stories; Human No Longer; Scraps of Paper-Revised Author's Edition and All Things Slip Away are all for sale on Amazon Kindle Direct. ***
All Kathryn Meyer Griffith's Books available at Amazon.com here: amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Kathryn+Meyer+Griffith
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- PublisherThomas & Mercer
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1477812504
- ISBN 13 9781477812501
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages231
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