Gilda Joyce
5 primary works • 8 total works
Book 1
Ever since her father died, quirky Gilda Joyce has been working hard to sharpen her psychic skills. She's determined to communicate with spirits from the Other Side and become a crack investigator of spooky, twisted mysteries. After wrangling an invitation to visit relatives in San Francisco, Gilda discovers that her dreary, tight-lipped uncle and his strange, delicate daughter need her help to uncover the terrible family secret that has a tortured ghost stalking their home. From poignant to hair-raising and hilarious, this is a behind-the-scenes, tell-all account of the very first case in the illustrious career of Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator.
Book 2
Zany Gilda Joyce leaves her wacky disguises at home but brings all her psychic and investigative skills with her as she sets out to investigate a mysterious death at a Catholic girls? school. Is Our Lady of Sorrows really haunted by the ghost of Dolores Lambert? Or is the student body suffering from group hysteria? Solving this mystery will put Gilda in more danger than she ever imagined? and will put all of her brashness, bravery, and smarts to the test.
Book 3
Gilda Joyce?s best friend, Wendy Choy, is chosen to participate in a piano competition in Oxford, England, so of course super-sleuth Gilda finds a way to go too. Once there, the grueling practice schedule takes a backseat to strange and spooky occurrences. There are foreboding tarot cards that keep appearing to the participants and ominous numbers etched in frosty windowpanes. But even more chilling are Wendy?s ghostly nightmares of a young boy?and the haunting melody she can?t shake out of her mind. Could there be a sinister connection to the piano competition? Gilda has a genuine haunting on her hands, and solving this one will take every ounce of psychic intuition she?s got!
Book 4
When Gilda lands a summer internship at Washington, D.C.?s International Spy Museum, she finds herself embroiled in both a museum haunting and a real case of espionage. While investigating a cemetery where Abraham Lincoln?s son was once buried, Gilda stumbles upon a spy?s ?dead drop? of classified information. Gilda?s efforts to decode the cryptic message lead to further intrigues: Is she on the trail of a mole operating inside the U.S. intelligence community? Aware that ?nothing is what it seems? when it comes to spies in Washington, D.C., Gilda faces the most serious challenge yet in her career as a psychic spy.
Book 5
Psychic investigator Gilda Joyce is appalled that her mother plans to remarry, but while they are in St. Augustine, Florida, making wedding arrangements Gilda discovers that the city is full of ghosts and mysteries, including one involving her stepfather-to-be.
Gilda's not one to let the horrible, awful, tragic things in life stop her in her tracks. When her beloved dad dies, she sets about keeping herself busy by embarking on several careers. Her stab at writing a novel doesn't really come off, so Gilda decides that her other role - that of psychic investigator - is the ons the one she will make a huge success! Luckily, her break comes in the form of her weird distant relation, 'Uncle Lester', who is troubled by the ghost of his late lamented wife. Lester and his even weirder daughter - a pale-faced hostile girl of Gilda's age - are unable to 'move on' because of the ghost in the tower who visits every night. Gilda can't wait to get her teeth stuck into this one - the minor fact that her uncle lives thousands of miles away in San Fransisco doesn't bother her either. Gilda's looking forward to spending the school summer vacation away from her chain-smoking mother and dimwit of a brother! But when she arrives she finds her relations less than welcoming, if not downright obstructive. Anyone would think they didn't take her psychic powers seriously!
But somehow, Gilda gets to the bottom of the ghost mystery and makes a new friend of her young cousin, too. No surprise to the reader as Gilda is an unforgettable, heart warming character with a wonderfully funny narrative voice...
But somehow, Gilda gets to the bottom of the ghost mystery and makes a new friend of her young cousin, too. No surprise to the reader as Gilda is an unforgettable, heart warming character with a wonderfully funny narrative voice...
Gilda is not exactly thrilled when she gets accepted on Scholarship to the prestigious Our Lady of Sorrows school for girls. But then she finds out about Dolores Lambert, the ex-pupil who drowned mysteriously in the lake in the grounds of the school. Now Gilda can't wait to start at the school. She plans to begin solving the mystery straight away. But certain people are trying to thwart her investigation. There's the intimidating Ladies of the Lake clique for a start, not to mention eccentric headmistress Ms McCracknell. But Gilda isn't going to let anything get in the way of truth, or the completion of her gothic novel. With so many strings to her bow, Gilda Joyce can't possibly fail ...can she?
When ninth-grader Gilda travels to an international piano competition in Oxford, England, as page turner for her friend Wendy Choy, she finds adventure investigating why Wendy is being haunted and who is frightening the performers, while enjoying a romance with a British boy and her first kiss.