Guided by Grace

by Becky Durfee

Twelve-year-old Hailey Newcomb slipped through the ice, going without a heartbeat for eight minutes. When she woke up in the hospital, everything seemed normal...except for one she had memories that didn't belong to her.

Hailey soon determined the memories belonged to Grace Mitchell, a local college student who recently disappeared without a trace. Through flashbacks and whispers, Grace lets Hailey know that she'd been murdered.

And now it's up to Hailey, with guidance from Grace, to find the killer before he strikes again.

175 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 7, 2015

About the author

As she sits by the pool watching her kids splashing around, Becky Durfee is busy under an umbrella writing her Jenny Watkins Mystery series. A statistics teacher by trade, she uses her spare time to explore her more creative side.

She has worked full time, stayed home with kids, gotten married, gotten divorced, gotten re-married, acquired step-kids, juggled a career and a home, been pregnant, puked from morning sickness, given birth, peed from sneezing (directly related to that whole 'birth' thing) and somehow has managed to laugh through it all. Those experiences lend themselves to believable characters and humorous plot lines in her Jenny Watkins Mystery series.

Driven was accepted into the Self-e Library Journal in October of 2015.

Reviews

[Monica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent mystery for the middle grades

This book is aimed towards middle school/ late elementary. Easy read for an adult but still gripping storyline. I will read the whole series as it comes out. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm so excited that my girls had an opportunity to help proofread this book in the making. Highly recommend. Yes it is a murder mystery but if your kids can handle HP this is no big deal. No foul language and no adult "scenes". So excited for a new middle school series.

[Marla · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am very stingy with 5-star ratings. I have maybe given out 10 total. So a 4-star from me is a good rating. This is considered a young adult book, written from the perspective of a 12-year-old, but in no way was it a juvenile book; I would recommend it to anyone regardless of age, and know I can comfortably recommend it to children of my friends as well

[Rosemary Duffin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good storyline

I am an adult but since I have read all of Becky's other books I wanted to check this one out also. Well written for teens and can't wait for Becky's. Next adult book in her Jenny series.