The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!) -Midwest Children’s Book Review

After being chased by a man wielding a shovel, scared silly by a mummy, and attacked by Heather Acosta, Sammy and her pals decide they’ve had their fill of monsters and head home to eat some candy. But along with bubble gum and chocolate bars, they discover something frightening in their trick-or-treating bags. Something that’s definitely not sweet!

Before they know it, Sammy and her friends are following suspicious gravediggers, ghoulish embalmers, and shady undertakers. And somebody is following them …

The Sammy Keyes mysteries are fast-paced, funny,

thoroughly modern, and true whodunits.
Each

mystery is exciting
and

dramatic, but it’s the drama in

Sammy’s personal

life
that
keeps

readers coming back to see
what happens next with her

love

interest Casey, her soap-star
mother, and her
mysterious father.