The Artful Goddaughter

The Artful Goddaughter
Author: Melodie Campbell
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2014-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459808207

In this work of crime fiction, Gina Gallo, Mob goddaughter and unwilling sleuth, tries to return a valuable painting to an art gallery.

The Goddaughter

The Goddaughter
Author: Melodie Campbell
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781459801257

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

The Bootlegger's Goddaughter

The Bootlegger's Goddaughter
Author: Melodie Campbell
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2017-02-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459814150

As Gina gets ready for her Christmas wedding, all is quiet in Steeltown. Then she's robbed, cousin Jimmy has a heart attack, and someone in the city has hijacked a transport truck full of booze. But who? And why? Gina knows bootlegging used to be a family business, but they stopped that in the '30s. Didn’t they? Gina and Nico work feverishly to keep the latest bungled family matter under wraps, but the police are closing in. And, once again, everything points to the Holy Cannoli Retirement Home. The Bootlegger's Goddaughter is the fifth book in the Gina Gallo Mystery series.

The Gina Gallo Mysteries Ebook Bundle

The Gina Gallo Mysteries Ebook Bundle
Author: Melodie Campbell
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459824067

Key Selling Points A comedic mob-mystery series. These books are perfect for fans of Janet Evanovich. Author Melodie Campbell has won numerous awards, including the Derringer Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for The Goddaughter's Revenge. Part of the Rapid Reads line, these short, fun commuter reads have a wide appeal with adults and teens.

The Goddaughter's Revenge

The Goddaughter's Revenge
Author: Melodie Campbell
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459804899

When jewelry-store owner Gina Gallo and her boyfriend Pete take a week's vacation, she leaves the store in the hands of her cousin from New York. After all, cousin Carmine is a certified gemologist—but Carmine is also in the Mob. When Gina gets back, she discovers that her cousin has spent his time switching real gems for fakes in the jewelry of some of her best customers. With her reputation on the line, what's a Mob goddaughter to do? Mastermind a string of burglaries to get the gems back, of course! But nothing ever goes entirely smoothly for Gina. Soon she and her eccentric cousin Nico are the toast of the town, as the local paper and everyone else follow the antics of their very own Pink Panthers.

Worst Date Ever

Worst Date Ever
Author: Melodie Campbell
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459815602

Sometimes you've got to kiss a few frogs.

The Artful Goddaughter

The Artful Goddaughter
Author: Melodie Campbell
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459808215

Mob goddaughter Gina Gallo stands to inherit two million bucks from her great-uncle Seb, a master forger. But there’s a catch: Uncle Seb wants Gina to make things right and return an extremely valuable painting to the City Art Gallery. If she can’t do it, her rat-face cousin Carmine gets the boodle. Reluctantly, Gina comes up with a plan for a reverse heist, as she has learned things never go as planned when her family gets involved. The wrong painting gets replaced, and Gina finds herself with two priceless masterpieces in hand! It won’t be long before someone realizes what’s going on. The Artful Goddaughter is the third novel in a series featuring Gina Gallo, who wants nothing more than to run her little jewelry store. But try as she might, Gina can’t escape the family business, with hilarious consequences.

The Goddaughter Caper

The Goddaughter Caper
Author: Melodie Campbell
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2016-01-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459810554

In The Goddaughter Caper, Gina Gallo finds herself embroiled in her family's shady dealings when a body turns up at her uncle’s restaurant. But it’s just the beginning of her problems. Strange things keep happening in Steeltown. A body shows up in the trunk of Gina’s car. Another is mistakenly shipped to her cousin Nico’s new store. And then Gina and Nico stumble across a stash of empty coffins! Worse, everything mysteriously points to her own retired relatives from the Holy Cannoli Retirement Home. Gina is determined to get to the bottom of it. But she’ll have to act fast, because the police are right behind her. This is the fourth in a series featuring Gina Gallo, who wants nothing more than to run her little jewelry store but, try as she might to escape it, somehow Gina gets drawn into the family business, with hilarious consequences.

The Art of Change

The Art of Change
Author: Kelly Andria
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2012-06-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1477120033

When gallery owner Nellie, a giving yet neurotic New Yorker, brings together the mismatched cast of characters in the opening of Ryan Whittaker’s debut, a phallic show, little does she know that she is setting the scene for odd and unpredictable relationships, much like Shakespeare in Midsummer Night’s Dream. The frenzied, magical mix-up is an outrageous farce with a deep moral message: there is a RIGHT place for everyone in this world and love and friendship cement us in it. The Art of Change is a funny, smooth reading romance, which deals with bridging differences in gender, education, social milieu, in an insane but pragmatic, modern fairytale, set in New York City. The twists of the plot are written without an ounce of cynicism but simply acknowledging that life is neither here nor there, neither black or white and all can be dealt with in real friendship and love.