What's a Serious Detective Like Me Doing in Such a Silly Movie?

Carol-Ann Hoyte is a children’s bookseller in Montreal.

There’s lights, camera, and plenty of action when Stevie Diamond and
her friend Jesse are hired to work as extras for a movie called Night of
the Neems. (A neem is a blue, scaly creature with a faucet nose and
three-clawed hands and feet). The duo quickly discover that making a
movie isn’t as glamorous as it’s made out to be. But things start
getting exciting when a string of questionable accidents lead people to
think the film’s production is jinxed. Are the accidents really
accidents or is a cast or crew member purposely trying to sabotage the
film? Thirteen-year-old detective Diamond and her sleuthing partner
Jesse insist on finding out.

A mix of two curious children, a busybody grandmother for a chaperone,
a horror movie set, and a cemetery keeps the action rolling in this
funny and spooky read. Here, Bailey writes from experience: she once
worked as a movie extra. This is the seventh book in the award-winning
Stevie Diamond Mystery series. Recommended.