Dark Granny

When homicide detective Lindsay Carter heads to Paso Robles to clean out her estranged grandmother's hoarder house, she expects dust, junk, and bad memories-not a crime scene from another lifetime.

Hidden in the chaos are things that don't add up: a gun shoved into a box spring, furs and jewels no one ever saw her grandmother wear, a freezer full of cash, and a trunk of yellowed newspaper clippings about robberies, fires, and a baby snatched on Halloween night, 1949. The more Lindsay reads, the less she recognizes the woman who raised her mother-and the more it looks like "Grandma Betty" built an entire life on other people's losses.

Lindsay tells herself she already has enough on her plate with missing kids, online predators, and a high‑pressure career in L.A. homicide. But some ghosts don't stay politely buried. As old secrets leak into the present, long‑protected reputations crack, witnesses start dying, and danger follows her home.

To protect the living, Lindsay will have to untangle decades of lies about the dead-and face the possibility that the worst monster she's ever hunted is the grandmother her family was taught to endure, not fear.