Waiting On…A Study In Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

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This week I’m waiting on…

Title A Study in Charlotte
Author Brittany Cavallaro
Pages 336 Pages
Genre Young Adult, Re-Telling, Mystery
Publisher Katherine Tegen Books
To Be Published March 1st, 2016
Find It On Goodreads ● Amazon.com

The last thing sixteen-year-old Jamie Watson – writer and great-great-grandson of the John Watson – wants is a rugby scholarship to Sherringford, a Connecticut prep school just an hour away from his estranged father. But that’s not the only complication: Sherringford is also home to Charlotte Holmes, the famous detective’s enigmatic, fiercely independent great-great-granddaughter, who’s inherited not just his genius but also his vices, volatile temperament, and expertly hidden vulnerability. Charlotte has been the object of his fascination for as long as he can remember – but from the moment they meet, there’s a tense energy between them, and they seem more destined to be rivals than anything else.

Then a Sherringford student dies under suspicious circumstances ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Holmes stories, and Jamie and Charlotte become the prime suspects. Convinced they’re being framed, they must race against the police to conduct their own investigation. As danger mounts, it becomes clear that nowhere is safe and the only people they can trust are each other.

Equal parts tender, thrilling, and hilarious, A Study in Charlotte is the first in a trilogy brimming with wit and edge-of-the-seat suspense.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that I have yet to meet a Sherlock Holmes re-imagining that I didn’t immediately love. So, when I discovered Brittany Cavallaro’s forthcoming 2016 debut, A Study in Charlotte, while perusing Goodreads one day, I was immediately intrigued. Cavallaro’s innovative interpretation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s universally beloved characters, coupled with her own personal experience as a PHD candidate who specialized in the study and instruction of detective literature, make this book an absolute must-read for me. One of the aspects of the novel I’m most excited about is the author’s choice to cast a girl in the role of the brilliant, eccentric, and maddening genius. Feminism and fun are two qualities I simply can’t resist and given all the early praise this novel has already garnered, my powers of deduction suggest that A Study In Charlotte promises not to disappoint.

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