Gilda Joyce is a mystery novel series written by Jennifer Allison

Jennifer Allison

Jennifer Allison is an American author of mystery novels who is best known as the author of the Gilda Joyce children's series of books.Born Jennifer Allison Brostrom, she grew up in Saline, Michigan and is a 1984 graduate from Saline High School. Jennifer holds a B.A...

, published by Dutton Children's Books.

Gilda Joyce is a psychic investigator, a spy and an undercover reporter, who solves mysteries of the supernatural using a Ouija board

Ouija Board

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, her wits and her Masters Psychic Handbook, seeking the answer to various mysteries, such as solving a mysterious death, and discovering the secrets of the cryptic society of the Ladies of the Lake.

Series

• Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator (July 2005)

• Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake
  Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake
  Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake is a mystery novel written by Jennifer Allison, published by Dutton Children's Books.-Plot summary:When Gilda Joyce earns a scholarship to attend Our Ladies of the Sorrows, a private high school for Catholic girls, she discovers that a girl named Dolores Lambert...
  
  (2006)

• Gilda Joyce: The Ghost Sonata
  Gilda Joyce: The Ghost Sonata
  Gilda Joyce: The Ghost Sonata is the third book involving the young American psychic investigator, Gilda Joyce.The book was released in August 2007, by Dutton Children's Books.-Plot summary:...
  
  (August 2007)

• Gilda Joyce: The Dead Drop
  Gilda Joyce: The Dead Drop
  Gilda Joyce: The Dead Drop is the fourth book of the Gilda Joyce series by American author Jennifer Allison. It was first published in 2009....
  
  (May 2009)

• Gilda Joyce: The Bones of the Holy (June 2011)

Characters

• Gilda Joyce is 13 years old at the beginning of the series. A self-proclaimed psychic investigator, she has a 'magic typewriter' given to her by her dead father. She is a quirky, likeable, gutsy and funny character.
• Wendy Choy is a brilliant piano player and an honor roll student. Sometimes she helps Gilda with her investigations, and once is the target of one.
• Stephen is Gilda's older brother who has been immersed in his studies since their father died. He does not believe in Gilda's psychic abilities but still looks out for her.
• Juliet Splinter is Gilda's cousin from San Francisco who lives in a huge mansion with her antisocial father. She is haunted by her dead aunt Melanie who jumped off the tower. She is a good artist but is friendless and isolated from the world until Gilda arrives.
• Mrs.Joyce is Gilda's mother who doensn't believe in Gilda's psychic powers, but tolerates them.