The Granddaughter

By John Matsui

Kerry is a pretty, 20-year-old woman who visits her grandfather every day at a posh retirement home. The old man has a condition that leaves him unable to remember anything from his past. Each day he loses all memories of what happened the previous day. Kerry recounts the family's struggle from its rough and poor beginnings through its triumphs and tragedies each visit using a photo album to regenerate lost memories and attach faces to the names and events.
The next day, the old man's memory is blank and Kerry starts again from the beginning.
The nursing home staff thinks Kerry is the perfect granddaughter, but is she?
The Granddaughter is a tale of suspense by author John Matsui who is known for the wicked twists in his stories. The Granddaughter is either a long short story or a short novella.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Matsui
• Release date: Dec 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9780995322530

John Matsui

I'm being stalked by strange characters. One is a guy we suspect is a vampire but he's not quite out of the closet (Late Bite and Lycanthrope Rising). Another who denies he's the reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes is a world class chef and sommelier because he has the world's most sensitive sniffer. That gift also means he can smell murder. Okay, this is supposed to be about me but I'm a pretty dull read in comparison. For longer than I care to remember, I earned my keep as a daily newspaper journalist and persuaded Judy to marry me because I had a steady income. We raised two incredible daughters who have long since graduated from university and are smart, powerful women who make the world a better place.. All that time in newspapers I was definitely more Clark Kent than Superman other than the occasional flight of imagination. Now those practiced fingers are now tapping out thriller stories and, surprise! people seem to like them. I'm a fan of the Frederick Forsyth plot twist, an admirer of Lee Child's action scenes, and jealous of Seth Grahame-Smith's zany mashups – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. I hope my readers see elements of these writers in what I've written - pulse pounding action, gut wrenching plot twists, and whacky mashed up characters and genres. Judy and I live in Wortley Village, a quaint neighbourhood in London Ontario, far from vampires, shape-shifters and superheroes. Now that's personal.

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The Granddaughter

A Suspense Novella

By

John Matsui

The Granddaughter Copyright © 2018 John Matsui.

Published by Poison Pine Books

All rights reserved under Canadian and International Copyright Conventions.

The Granddaughter is a work of fiction and is a product solely of the author’s imagination. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are fictitious or used in a way that have no attachment to any person, organization or event that has occurred in real life. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

The author has worked diligently to produce an original work and appreciates your cooperation to ensure he is compensated for his efforts. If you have received a free copy of The Granddaughter, the author would appreciate feedback and especially a review of this work of short fiction.

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ISBN 978-0-9953225-3-0

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