Campbell, Melodie

In this high-interest novel for teen readers, sixteen-year-old Penny is surprised when her dog digs up a skeleton in the backyard.

Sixteen-year-old Penny Capelli has just moved to a small town to live with her aunt Stella when Penny's dog digs up a human skeleton in the backyard that is over twenty years old. Penny, her cousin Simon, and his friends investigate the mystery and try to learn the skeleton's identity. However, they quickly learn that their efforts could provoke the killer again.

In order to inherit two million dollars from her great-uncle Seb, gemologist and mob family member Gina Gallo must return a stolen painting by breaking into an art gallery and replacing the duplicate with an original.

A young gemologist, who happens to be related to the local mob, is reluctantly recruited to smuggle diamonds across the border--with hilarious consequences.

"Gina Gallo, mob goddaughter and unwilling sleuth, gets drawn into a body caper mystery against her better judgment"--Publisher.

"A team of vigilantes seeks to right wrongs in this lighthearted work of fiction"--OCLC.

Gemologist Gina Gallo leaves her jewelry store in the hands of her cousin Carmine, who is in the mob, and returns to find he has been replacing customers' jewelry with imitations.