


Dolores Lambert is a freshman at Our Lady of Sorrows High School who fell into the lake on the grounds and drowned.Melanie is Lester's deceased sister, who committed suicide when Juliet was three.Rosa is the Splinters' housekeeper, who often sees ghosts.Summer Matthews is Lester's assistant, who takes a liking to Gilda and offers to show her around San Francisco.Lester Splinter is Juliet's father, who is separated from her mother and runs an accounting firm.She is a good artist but is friendless and isolated from the world until Gilda arrives. She is haunted by her dead aunt Melanie who jumped off the tower. Juliet Splinter is Gilda's cousin from San Francisco who lives in a huge mansion with her antisocial father.Gilda often writes letters to him on her old typewriter and once receives a vision from him telling her to wake up and listen to Juliet, who is muttering a conversation with her dead aunt in her sleep. Nick Joyce is Gilda's deceased father, who died of cancer two years before the events of the first novel.Joyce is Gilda's mother who doesn't believe in Gilda's psychic powers, but tolerates them. He does not believe in Gilda's psychic abilities but still looks out for her. Steven is Gilda's older brother who has been immersed in his studies since their father died.

Sometimes she helps Gilda with her investigations, and once is the target of one.

According to Allison, the idea for the story of Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator first emerged while she was living in San Francisco and had recently been laid off from a "dot com". Gilda Joyce is a mystery novel series written by Jennifer Allison, published by Dutton Children's Books.
