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Gone Before (Rory Naysmith Mysteries Book 2) by Terry Korth Fischer | $50 Giveaway, Guest Post, Spotlight

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Book Details

Gone Before by Terry Korth Fischer
Series: Rory Naysmith Mysteries #2
Published by Wild Rose Press on 01/17/2022
Genres: Fiction, Mystery
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 318

A murderer who doesn't leave a clue.

Small-town detective, Rory Naysmith, thought he'd seen it all, but a young woman's brutal murder is especially hard to stomach. Doubly so, when he recognizes the murder's MO is identical to that of Tobias Snearl--the killer he put behind bars a decade before.

His frustration grows after a series of senseless accidents plague those dearest to him, and a second woman dies--this one too close to home.

Searching for answers, Rory races against time, plunging deep into the murder investigations, drawing ever closer to becoming a casualty of the dark, angry deeds himself, until he finds no one is who they pretend to be--and none are beyond evil's reach.

 

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Excerpt from Gone Before

“I think my guardian angel is off for the Fourth.” The detective studied the cloudless sky and tried not to think about his foot. It didn’t work. “Just use the crowbar to break one of these frickin’ stones loose.”

The jack handle didn’t do the trick. Opening the trenching tool and using the pick end, Thacker swung it against the largest stone. It bounced off the surface.

Rory suppressed a scream as pain shot from his knee down his encased leg. “Easy!”

“Sorry, boss.”

“Try removing one of the outer stones. Loosen them, and maybe we’ll be able to budge these. I’ll hold the light, and you make room for these damn jaws to unclasp. Try finding the cornerstone.”

A fine layer of perspiration covered Rory’s face. He felt defeated and a little nauseous. He leaned back on his elbows and looked at the sky. “Thacker,” he said, “this is damn unlucky.”

The rookie moved down the mound to the edge of the pile. Using the crowbar and a lot of muscle, he attacked. Finally, he was able to roll one stone out of position. Then another. He was still three feet from Rory’s crevice, working his way toward the more enormous boulders and Rory’s ultimate freedom, when the rock he was prying loose rolled out of place. He hesitated. “There is something funny here, boss.”

“I could use a good laugh.”

“Not ha-ha funny, peculiar funny.” “Tell me anyway.”

“There’s someone else in this rock pile.”

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Guest Post by Terry Korth Fischer

Author of Gone Astray and Gone Before

My Muse Is Never in a Hurry

If you ask me to describe my writing process, I will admit I am a slow, deliberate writer. A list-maker and an out-liner—I like a story map. Others may enjoy a storyline that unfolds as they draft. However, pre-planning gives me the chance to think ideas through before starting the story. And, because of this, I’ve discovered my drafts don’t require extensive rewrites—edits, yes, but not “do-overs.” Not that I haven’t created some surprising scenes while under an impossible deadline and off-course from my original ideas.

There is no one process that is better than another. Every author needs to find the writing method which works best for them. I’ve found mine, but I envy a writer who can sit down and create. One drawback to my method is the “write-in” where you get a topic, thirty minutes to draft, and then share what you’ve written. This is something I’d love to master. But, at minute twenty-eight, I’m still deciding the protagonist’s name and if she will wear blood-red or magenta lipstick.

I’ve answered the siren call of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) four times. For a slow, edit-as-you-go writer, this is a daunting challenge. For the first project, I wrote ten short stories and didn’t post my progress. The second year, I drafted 50,000 words of a novel that was later traditionally published.

My other projects are works-in-progress. Where some of my NaNoWriMo buddies could draft 2,000 words in an hour or two, I needed an entire day, eight to ten hours, to make my daily word count and never finished until the eleventh hour. Yet, I consider myself a four-time winner. In reaching my goal each year, I also found myself inspired by the writing community. (What a wonderful place to live!) If you have not done NaNoWriMo, I encourage you to sign up for the November challenge.

Some writers feel the need to burst into a story while the idea is fresh and then write until exhausted. I like to write, rest, read, rewrite, and then move on. My muse is never in a hurry.

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