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The Files of Gray Gaynes (series)

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The Files of Gray Gaynes is an ongoing murder mystery series by R.L. Akers, which started with Gray Tones. Major installments in the series consist of numbered novellas. All Gray stories are written in past tense, from close third-person point of view (with limited exceptions[1][2]), and feature the eponymous protagonist as the point-of-view character. To date, all major entries in the Gray Gaynes series have the word "Gray" in the title, while short story titles reference other colors.

Given the short narrative length of each mystery, Akers has stated that each story arc will eventually be republished in anthology format and include exclusive short stories. The first such anthology, Gray in the City, encompasses all six of the novellas set in New York City during Gray Gaynes' career as an NYPD detective (books #1-6). The forthcoming Gray Dawn (book #7) will pick up in a new locale with a largely new cast of supporting characters, albeit with a few cameos from old favorites.

Audiobook productions of Gray Gaynes stories are performed by narrator Marcus Freeman.

Stories

Gray in the City

  1. Gray Tones: The Case of the Elevator Slaying (2017)
  2. Gray Area: The Case of the Hellhound Homicide (2017)
  3. Old Gray: The Case of the Cold-Blooded Cremation (2017)
  4. Gray Matter; The Case of the Autonomous Assassination (2018)
  5. Gray Rose: The Return of the Mad Batter (2018)
  6. Fade to Gray: The Fate of the Vengeful Victim (2018)

Gray in the Dark

  1. Gray Dawn (forthcoming)

Characters

Major and recurring characters in the Gray Gaynes series include:

  • NYPD personnel
    • Gray Gaynes (all books)
    • Patrick "Mack" McMurphy (books #1-6)
    • Bobbi Falmer - one of the precinct's "resident geeks" who assists Gray from time to time on technical matters
    • Captain Bannon Fortier - Gray's superior, commander of the homicide squad at Gray's precinct
  • Others
    • "Old Gray" Gaynes - Gray's father, a semi-reformed ex-con grifter whom Gray himself helped put in jail
    • Matty Di Buca - Gray's nemesis and chief suspect for the Mad Batter murders

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The short first chapter of Fade to Gray is a flashback written from the perspective of the as-yet unidentified Mad Batter serial killer.
  2. ↑ The Gray in the City anthology and Gray Dawn both include excerpts from this wiki, which is of course written from an omniscient perspective.
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