"The Edgar-winning seventh-grade sleuth takes on the art world, not to mention affairs of the heart, in the eighth novel in this...

"Tara Sands brings a lively voice and brisk pace to the story of a determined 13-year-old detective, her three girlfriends, and the slew of quirky characters who populate this...

"Fans will enjoy Tara Sand's spirited telling of [this] melodramatic tale of mystery and abandonment...offers a satirical look at what it takes for a woman to make it in...

"Sammy Keyes tries to help out a friend and ends up in a mystery that must be solved or she could lose her home...Sands gives all the characters their own voices, and makes it...

"The Sammy Keyes series keeps getting better and better. In the seventh title in the series, a frightened teen at a video arcade...

"Sammy is serving detention at St. Mary's church where she finds herself a suspect when Father Mayhew's gold cross is stolen from the safe...Sands' voice personifies the Sammy...

"The narrator uses a single voice with some varied inflections to indicate comments made by other characters...Sammy and her friends...find themselves outside the 'bush' house on...