All Those Who Came Before
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Everyone nodded or echoed the word yes, grinning at Lucas.
“And I’m fairly handy with a hammer and a nail-gun,” Frank offered. “You can count on me for that anyway. Not bad with plumbing, either.”
Abigail was proud of them. That was another thing Abigail loved about Spookie. The town had a heart. People helped each other without asking for anything back.
“I won’t turn down anyone’s help. I’m not proud,” Lucas stated gratefully. “How can I thank all of you?”
“You’re one of us. You’ve always been one of us,” Myrtle told him. “You don’t need to thank us.”
“Lucas,” Abigail was the one to give the offer, “how about coming with us to the park? Our son, Nick, and his band are playing there in a little while. There’ll also be lots of good festival food and craft booths for you to wander among. It’ll be a way for you to meet more of the townspeople and they to meet you. If you’re up to it?”
“I’m up to it. Let’s go.” Lucas was still smiling. “I’m ready. I’m more than ready.”
Then the group of them got up and left Stella’s, went to the park. Irma held on to Lucas’s arm and the two continued to catch up with each other. Glinda and Kyle hung near the rear, giggling and kissing each other when no one was looking. But Abigail saw.
Silas followed down the sidewalk behind them on his new scooter, with Myrtle on the back seat laughing and waving her arms. “Look at me! I’m riding on a fancy scooter. Yahoo! Faster, Silas, faster!” She giggled like a young girl and lightly slapped his sides with her fingers.
Abigail and Frank clasped hands as they strolled to the park and all around them was sunshine and laughter. Abigail looked at her family and friends and couldn’t stop smiling. She was happy to be there, too, to be alive. Frank feeling better. Ryan safe home from Africa. Lucas now a free man. What a great ending for a turbulent summer.
They had a wedding to look forward to. Soon they’d have a daughter-in-law they loved, and a son who would become the town’s doctor. Frank was as a content as a squirrel with a pile of nuts because, not only was he feeling better, his son would be living in Spookie for the first time in years.
She’d also locked in Thanksgiving dinner and not only were all her remaining siblings, Mary, Carol and Jimmy, promising to travel from their homes to attend–Frank would drive up himself and collect Claudia’s sister, Cordelia, so she could attend–but Laura and Nick’s brothers and sisters were all coming, too. She and Frank would have to have two turkeys to feed them all. And they’d have a house full for sure, but she didn’t mind. She couldn’t wait. A family and friend reunion for the holiday. How marvelous.
Now if she could only keep Myrtle from springing a crazy new mystery on them...all would be well. Life would be beautiful in her world, her town. Fingers crossed.
The end.
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This was the sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery. Here are the first five:
~ Book #1 Scraps of Paper
~ Book #2 All Things Slip Away
~ Book # 3 Ghosts Beneath Us
~ Book #4 Witches Among Us
~ Book #5 What Lies Beneath the Graves
Seventh Spookie Town Murder Mystery coming in 2020...
*NOTE: If you would like more murder mysteries than just these Spookie Town Murder Mysteries, I also have two other stand-alone murder mysteries...The Ice Bridge and Winter’s Journey.
* And if you liked this book you might try any one of my other 28 published novels and 12 short stories because I also write and publish horror, romantic horror, time-travel, and murder mysteries.
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ABOUT Kathryn Meyer Griffith...
Since childhood I’ve been an artist and worked as a graphic designer in the corporate world and for newspapers for twenty-three years before I quit to write full time. But I’d already begun writing novels at 21, over forty-eight years ago now, and have had twenty-nine (romantic horror, thrillers, SF Thrillers, horror novels, romantic SF horror, romantic suspense, romantic time travel, historical romance and murder mysteries) novels, two novellas and thirteen short stories published from many traditional publishers since 1984. But since 2012 I’ve gone into self-publishing in a big way; and upon getting some of my older books’ full rights back for the first time in 33 years, self-published all of them along with my newer novels. My five Dinosaur Lake novels and six Spookie Town Mysteries (Scraps of Paper, All Things Slip Away, Ghosts Beneath Us, Witches Among Us, What Lies Beneath the Graves, and All Those Who Came Before) are my best-sellers.
I’ve been married to Russell for over forty-one years; have a son, two grandchildren and a great granddaughter, and I live in a small quaint town in Illinois. We have a quirky cat, Sasha, and the three of us live happily in an old house in the heart of town. Though I’ve been an artist, and a folk/classic rock singer in my youth with my brother Jim, writing has always been my greatest passion, my butterfly stage, and I’ll probably write stories until the day I die...or until my memory goes.
2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS *Finalist* for her horror novel The Last Vampire ~ 2014 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS * Finalist * for her thriller novel Dinosaur Lake.
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Novels and short stories from Kathryn Meyer Griffith:
Evil Stalks the Night, The Heart of the Rose, Blood Forged, Vampire Blood, The Last Vampire (2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS*Finalist* in their Horror category), Witches, Witches II: Apocalypse, Witches plus bonus Witches II: Apocalypse, The Nameless One erotic horror short story, The Calling, Scraps of Paper (The First Spookie Town Murder Mystery), All Things Slip Away (The Second Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Ghosts Beneath Us (The Third Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Witches Among Us (The Fourth Spookie Town Murder Mystery), What Lies Beneath the Graves (The Fifth Spookie Town Murder Mystery), All Those Who Came Before (The Sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Seventh Spookie Town Murder Mystery coming in 2020...
Egyptian Heart, Winter’s Journey, The Ice Bridge, Don’t Look Back, Agnes, A Time of Demons and Angels, The Woman in Crimson, Human No Longer, Four Spooky Short Stories Collection, Forever and Always Romantic Novella, Night Carnival Short Story, Dinosaur Lake (2014 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS*Finalist* in their Thriller/Adventure category), Dinosaur Lake II: Dinosaurs Arising, Dinosaur Lake III: Infestation, Dinosaur Lake IV: Dinosaur Wars, Dinosaur Lake V: Survivors, Memories of My Childhood (short story collection) and my Christmas Magic 1959 non-fiction autobiographical short story.
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All Those Who Came Before
by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
(The sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery)
Cover art by: Dawné Dominique
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