Fade to Gray

Fade to Gray: The Fate of the Vengeful Victim is a murder mystery novella by R.L. Akers and the sixth book in the Files of Gray Gaynes series. The novella was published on July 2, 2018.

This story is a direct sequel to the fifth installment, and serves as a conclusion to Gray's first story arc as he solves his wife's murder, brings her killer to justice, and ends his tenure with the NYPD.

Artwork

As with each Gray Gaynes installment, the chapter numbering within Gray Rose is unique. In this case, each number is displayed as dilapidated wooden house numbers, an allusion to the cabin in the woods where the story's climax occurs.

Back Cover Blurb

THE TRUTH ALWAYS COMES OUT

Following the bombshell revelations of the re-opened Mad Batter investigation, NYPD detective Gray Gaynes finally has a killer in custody -- AND the proof he needs to secure a conviction. But the truth is worse than he imagined, for there was more than one killer... and the second killer, still at large, was the very one who murdered Gaynes' own wife.

Unfortunately, Gray is now suspended, his badge and gun confiscated following the exposure of his debilitating neurological conditions. He has no authority to continue his investigation, but neither can he let it go. As one friend after another shuns the disgraced detective, his life will spiral out of control until he's left with nothing but a quest for vengeance.

And once he reaches the end of his hunt, he will face the most devastating revelation of all... that nothing he believed about this last year was true.

Meet Gray Gaynes: a brilliant investigator, but also a man deeply wounded by his own personal tragedy... A man who can no longer hide the irrevocable changes he is undergoing.