Grandma Gang Mysteries
by Cathy Pepe
The “Grandma Gang” is what the press started calling a group of three older women, all grandmothers, who several years ago figured out three break-ins and thefts at the local 7-11 store and then helped the sheriffs capture the thieves.
Grandma Cathy is Donny and Mary Grace’s grandma who is taking care of Donny, a five-year old boy with Down syndrome and his sister Mary Grace, a 10-year-old girl in the fifth grade while their parents are on a special assignment in Africa. Mary Grace has developed quite a reputation as an amateur detective, and with Donny and the Grandma Gang has solved a number of puzzling and interesting mysteries involving bullying in her classroom, dognapping in their town of Lompoc, California, and the mystery of the “ugly marbles” in a home for seniors where their great grandma Gigi lives.
Their stories are fun and suspenseful, and also feature the other Grandma Gang members — LaShana Jackson, a retired Deputy Sheriff in Lompoc and Elizabeth Blythe, a retired family counselor who worked with LaShana and Cathy before retirement and is now a Karate instructor, Penelope Li, Mary Grace’s best friend and others.
Books in the Grandma Gang Mysteries series are available on Amazon.com
10% of net proceeds from sales of this book will be donated to Special Olympics
Photo gallery of readers enjoying Donny and Mary Grace’s California Adventures: A Grandma Gang Mystery.
News & Events
A Wonderful and Meaningful Review of Donny and Mary Grace Go to Camp
Cathy Pepe didn’t write the Grandma Gang mysteries for praise, accolades or glowing reviews. She penned the series to honor her beloved brother, Donny, whose zest for life was never slowed or dampened by his Down syndrome. The praise, accolades and glowing reviews that followed each book in the series were simply affirmation that she…
Fourth and Final Mystery in the Grandma Gang Series is Published: Donny and Mary Grace Go to Camp
Lompoc, CA (July 18, 2023) – The fourth and final mystery novel in the Grandma Gang children’s book series, Donny and Mary Grace Go to Camp, has been posthumously published following the passing of author Cathy Pepe. The new, exciting tale concludes the adventures of Donny, a curious boy with Down syndrome, and Mary Grace,…
Online Book Club’s May Book of the Month: Donny and Mary Grace’s California Adventures
Exciting news to share as Cathy Pepe’s first novel, Donny and Mary Grace’s California Adventures: A Grandma Gang Mystery has been chosen as the “Book of the Month” for May by Online Book Club. In Mary Grace and Donny’s California Adventures, the two siblings move from Wichita, Kansas to Lompac, California to be taken care…
World Marbles Day
Have you read Donny, Mary Grace and the Ugly Marbles yet? If so, you’ll be interested to know that World Marbles Day is coming up! I’m serious. There really is a World Marbles Day and it has been commemorated since 1588! That’s right, World Marbles Day has taken place on Good Friday for almost 200…
World Down Syndrome Day is March 21
Did you know that March 21 is World Down Syndrome Day? It’s true. In December 2011, the United Nations General Assembly declared that March 21 would be the annual worldwide day for raising public awareness of Down syndrome and the need for advocacy for adequate access to health care, early intervention programs, inclusive education and…
High praise for Donny, Mary Grace and the Ugly Marbles
All writers both love and fear reviews. Naturally, you want others to have positive opinions of your work, but you also dread the possibility that, for one reason or another, someone will write something negative that could possibly influence the decisions of others to either read or purchase your book. I’m happy to say that…