Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator

By Jennifer Allison

When thirteen-year-old Gilda Joyce accidentaly tells her entire class that she is going to San Francisco during summer break (she's not) she decides it is the perfect time to visit her distant cousin Lester Splinter and his daughter Juliet. She then wangles an invitation and heads off  to San Francisco. When she gets there she dicovers that there is a ghost in the tower on the back of the old house. Juliet believes it is the ghost of her aunt who commited suicide several years ago. Gilda, who considers herself a psychic investigator, believes her and sets out to find out why the ghost is there and what made her commit suicide. I LOVE Gilda, who enjoyes wearing wigs and wacky disguises, always carries a copy of the Master Psychic's Handbook, and frequently askes sudden probing and personal questions. She also travels with a typewriter on which she writes stories, progress reports on her latest case, and letters to her dead father. Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator is a great book, and anyone who likes slightly creepy mysteries with funny, zany, main characters should read it.

3 comments:

  1. I am reading this book right now and I LOVE it! I'm almost done with it! :)

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  2. Yay! It seemed like something U would like. The others are just as good although The Ghost Sonata was the creepiest. Do not be put of by the nightmare sequence in the beggining of that one. The Dead Drop is my favorite, though. The Series goes Psychic Investigator, Ghost Sonata, The Ladies of the Lake, then The Dead Drop. Hopefully there are more that either I don't know about or Aren't out yet.

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