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Gilda Joyce is Nancy Drew for a new generation - and she's back in her spookiest mystery yet!
When Gilda Joyce's mother gets engaged to a man from St. Augustine, Florida, Gilda is appalled. She hasn't even given him the "Joyce Family Application" yet! But as the wedding preparations get under way, Gilda realizes the application is the least of her worries. Spooky St. Augustine is riddled with ghost stories and unsolved mysteries, and Gilda has problems of her own. Why does her soon-to-be stepdad keep calling Mrs. Joyce by his ex-wife's name? And why is Mrs. Joyce acting like she's possessed? With only a few short days before the wedding, Gilda knows this much for sure: It's going to take every ounce of her sleuthing skill and psychic savvy to solve this one!
In this fifth Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator installment, amateur sleuth Gilda travels to historic St. Augustine to encounter a ghostly woman in white and ends up literally buried in another baffling mystery.
Horrified when her mother returns from a getaway weekend in St. Augustine engaged to an antiques dealer named Eugene Pook, whom she met on the Internet and plans to marry immediately, Gilda experiences her "psychic signal," a tickling in her left ear, warning something unusual or dangerous is about to occur. Arriving in St. Augustine for the wedding, Gilda finds Eugene to be "older, plump, walruslike" and definitely weird. She loves the ghost tour of St. Augustine, "one of the most haunted cities in the entire United States," but is surprised when Eugene's 12-year-old neighbor confesses she's seen a spectral woman in white in his house. Gilda discovers Eugene had been jilted years before by his fiancée, Charlotte, who looked just like Gilda's mother and mysteriously vanished. Now Eugene seems to be re-creating his aborted wedding. Could the woman in white be Charlotte's ghost? Local ghost tales, Gilda's spy records, letters and travelogue flesh out the account of how this sassy wannabe investigator tries to save her mother from Charlotte's fate.
Gilda fans will rally to her latest caper, while newcomers should revel in her ghostly escapades in old St. Augustine. (Mystery. 10-14)
RebelJim
Posted January 13, 2012
All I can say is that there had better be more of these. If this is the last one I'll be very perturbed.
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
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Posted May 20, 2012
I can easily say that this is one of the best paranormal books I have read. Very well done! Love the whole series!
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Posted February 12, 2012
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.After this book was given to me a few years ago by my aunt, I put it off for a little while but then eventually read it. Gilda is a cool person and readers can relate to her. Definitely read this series- I'm on the last one! :)
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.This series gets better and better with every mystery. The story behind the mystery for this book leaves you thinking and shivering....the wonders of this haunting ghost and who she is and why is she is makeing contact with Gilda, the results can be shocking! I a sure you this book will not leave you hanging but ready to join Gilda in another one of her great mysteries as a psychic investigator. ( Also it will leave you wanting to try a fried peanut butter sandwich :D )
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Posted February 26, 2012
I have not actually read this yet, but I love this series. I bought the sample and can't wait to start it. Last year a teacher reccomended these books to me. My friend and I became obsessed. These are great mysteries, and not scary ones. I would reccomend this to any girl, even if they don't like mysteries. I don't really like mysteries but I loved this series. Great books. A must read. Funny too. Gilda is a character you will fall in love with. READ THIS SERIES! DON'T OVERLOOK IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted March 16, 2013
I need more Gilda books but I've read the whole series! :(
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Posted March 12, 2013
I loved this book sooooooooo much! I got it a my local library not knowing a singal thing about it. Now because I read it it is my 2nd favorite series!!!
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Posted January 26, 2013
A broad winged female griffon with white feathers and brown wings/fur. She has yellow eyes and a bullyish/coolish attitude. Formerly friends with a pegasus named Rainbow Dash before she turned to the pony/dragon lifestyle. Is the leader of a multigriffon tribe. (Multigriffon means they dont single any out.) The most she ever does for a signature is a capitol g. If shes feeling creative she puts gildash up. Always was laughed at for being daughter of two grey griffons. 2 years old.
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Posted August 31, 2012
Its the fith and i live gilda
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Posted July 25, 2012
The problem is. Is that i live in montana and some books. Like this one for instance arent in the bn stores. I dont really want to buy it on my nook because i like the feel of the books and smell of pper. I know call me weird. But its true. :(
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Posted July 25, 2012
HELP PLEASE RESPOND I NEED TO KNOW ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted June 1, 2012
Jennifer Allison shoould defenetly keep writing these books i have read all of them and they are absolutleyy amazing !
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Posted May 15, 2012
It so good
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Posted May 6, 2012
Thiis book is many things especially: CONFUSING WEIRD COOL CRAZY AND THET BEST BOOK I EVER READ
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Posted April 28, 2012
I love Gilda Joyce and have read all the books in her series. And yes sadly I do think this is the last one. You know once I emailed Jennifer Allison, the author, and she wrote back. You should email her.
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Posted March 30, 2012
Great book!
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Posted March 26, 2012
Is this last book plz answer!
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Posted February 26, 2012
Good u should read :)
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Posted January 21, 2012
It's a good book through out the book keeps you thinking one thing is going to happen then there is a big twist at the end.
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Overview
Gilda Joyce is Nancy Drew for a new generation - and she's back in her spookiest mystery yet!
When Gilda Joyce's mother gets engaged to a man from St. Augustine, Florida, Gilda is appalled. She hasn't even given him the "Joyce Family Application" yet! But as the wedding preparations get under way, Gilda realizes the application is the least of her worries. Spooky St. Augustine is riddled with ghost stories and unsolved mysteries, and Gilda has problems of her own. Why does her ...