Dinosaur Lake: Volume 1

Name: Dinosaur Lake: Volume 1
Rating: 4.537815093994141 (119 reviews)

Kathryn Meyer Griffith

Dinosaur Lake Book 1 · Kathryn Meyer Griffith

4.5

119 reviews

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An 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. ***

dinosaur, Crater Lake, thriller, suspense, horror, SF, romance, paleontologist, mystery, paleontology dig, Kathryn Meyer Griffith

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4.5

119 reviews

Yarn Dragon

May 6, 2024

I really enjoyed this story. As a dinosaur book fan I was pleased to find this series and discover that it's a pretty quick and easy read. One thing I loved about the book was that it had action but lacked a lot of the gore that Jurassic Park and a lot of other dinosaur books had. I can share this book with my nephew without fear of scaring him. One thing I didn't like is how long the ending scenes went on, but once the action started it was very good. Overall I have more positive to say about the book than negative, a lot more.

Shelley Penner

August 8, 2020

I very much enjoyed this story. The relationships felt engaging and realistic, the flow of the narrative smooth and linear. It kept me turning pages. It could have benefited from the services of a copy editor, or at least a group of beta readers, before publication -- I noticed several grammatical errors and a few poorly constructed sentences, but in general, the story was well enough constructed that it was easy to suspend disbelief, despite the unlikely premise that dinosaur eggs could remain viable for millennia. Eggs are not like seeds -- they are porous and actually have living, growing beings inside them who could not survive long in an arid, oxygen deprived environment. Also, for dinosaurs to evolve intelligence, they would have to actually live and reproduce for millennia, or have evolved that intelligence before they ended up in the geological time capsule. But despite the suspension of bio logic, I will definitely read the next one in the series. I feel curious to see where you will take this idea next.

6 people found this review helpful

Jack Savage

August 27, 2020

Not since Michael Crichton has someone else captured the sense of horror the presence a primordial predator would convey. Her characters and there own personal stories are a joy to read, a few times I found myself on the brink of tears. Bloody well done Kathryn.

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About the author

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-four years ago now, and have had twenty-two (ten romantic horror, two horror novels, two romantic SF horror, one romantic suspense, one romantic time travel, one historical romance, two thrillers, and four murder mysteries) previous novels, two novellas and twelve short stories published from Zebra Books, Leisure Books, Avalon Books, The Wild Rose Press, Damnation Books/Eternal Press. But I’ve gone into self-publishing in a big way since 2012; and upon getting all my 22 books’ full rights back for the first time in 33 years, have self-published all of them. My Dinosaur Lake novels and Spookie Town Mysteries (Scraps of Paper, All Things Slip Away and Ghosts Beneath Us) are my best-sellers.

I’ve been married to Russell for thirty-eight years; have a son and two grandchildren 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 my horror novel The Last Vampire-Revised Author’s Edition ~ 2014 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS *FINALIST* for her thriller novel Dinosaur Lake.

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, 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), 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 and Dinosaur Lake III: Infestation.

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