Dinosaur Lake IX: Dinosaurs Are Hard to Kill

by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

Park Ranger Henry Shore has been fighting large rogue, blood-thirsty, dinosaurs for over a decade…and now, finally, they have been eradicated. Or have they? Henry works hard to keep the secret of his amazing little dinosaur friend, Oscar, and Oscar’s family, from the world; knowing the highly intelligent telepathic creatures must be protected for many reasons, especially because if the hostile aliens ever return, Oscar is the key to communicating with them. Last time that communication saved the world. But now, suddenly, more malevolent large dinosaurs have shown up near the northern boundary of his park, and Henry, once more, is asked for his help to find, and to exterminate, them before they kill any more innocent humans. But when he finds the first large dinosaur, it is already dead. And then the second large dinosaur, also dead. How? And what is this virulent infection that is killing them? Now nine books in series.

465 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 14, 2025

About the author

About Kathryn Meyer Griffith 2026
Since childhood I’ve been an artist, and have 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 fifty-five years ago now, and have had forty-one (romantic horror, horror novels, romantic SF horror, romantic suspense, romantic time travel, historical romance, thrillers, one non-fiction short story collection, dinosaur books, and murder mysteries) previous novels and thirteen short stories published from various traditional publishers since 1984. But I’ve gone into self-publishing in a big way since 2012; and upon getting all my previous books’ full rights back for the first time in 36 years, have self-published all of them. My ten Dinosaur Lake novels and Spookie Town Murder Mysteries (Scraps of Paper, All Things Slip Away, Ghosts Beneath Us, Witches Among Us, What Lies Beneath the Graves, All Those Who Came Before, When the Fireflies Returned, Echoes of Other Times, Beyond the Veil, Concerning Good and Evil) are my best-sellers.
I was married to Russell for over forty-three years; have a son, two grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. I live in a small quaint town in Illinois. I have a quirky cat, Sasha, and we 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 late 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 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; sixth, All Who Came Before, When the Fireflies Returned (the seventh Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Echoes of Other Times (the eighth Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Waiting Beyond the Veil, Concerning Good and Evil, 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, Six 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 and Dinosaur Lake IV: Dinosaur Wars, Dinosaur Lake V: Survivors, Dinosaur Lake VI: The Alien Connection, Dinosaur Lake VII: The Aliens Return, Memories of My Childhood, and Christmas Magic 1959.

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Reviews

[Martha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Where is Oscar?

I'm worried about Oscar, what happened?
I have enjoyed this whole series. Who would have ever thought that dinosaurs and aliens would appear in the same story written about Earth. Outer space maybe, but here on Earth?
Looking forward to reading the next book.

[Patty A Copenbarger · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book, and I hope it is not the last one. The Dinosaur Lake series is well worth readin.

[Kathleen Knowles · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great series! This one was just as good as all the others. There has to be another! We have to know what happened to Oscar