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Grandma's Little Secret

Becca C. Smith

Inspired by true events, one girl’s life is changed forever when she foils a murder—and becomes a target herself.When imaginative eleven-year-old Emma and her parents and friends go to a remote island in the Pacific Northwest during the summer of 1985, she thinks it’ll be a normal family vacation.But when she starts dreaming of her loving Grandma Virginia killing people, she realizes there’s more to the sweet matriarch than she thought. And when she has a premonition that her grandmother intends to kill her husband, she knows she has to take matters into her own hands.When she foils Virginia’s first plan to murder Grandpa Roy, Emma becomes a target herself.Allied with her friends, Emma must differentiate between make-believe and psychic visions to try to save both her grandfather’s life and her own.Includes a True or False section with color pictures comparing the novel to the real-life murder of Rolf Neslund and a print-exclusive bonus chapter.

GenresLiterature & FictionGenre FictionMystery, Thriller & SuspenseThrillers & SuspensePsychological ThrillersCrime

296 pages

English edition · First published 2026 by Inimitable Books · ISBN 9781958607459

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