A Study in Charlotte

Reviewed by: Mary Lehmer - Freeport Community Library, Freeport, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: May 10, 2016

Review

Charlotte is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes. And she has inherited his knack for solving crimes/mysteries. She is also a teenager that is having issues with a drug problem and gets sent to the US to boarding school to get it together. At her boarding school she meets Jamie Watson, and yes, he is the great-great-great-grandson of James Watson. The 2 teenagers become friends, sort of, and then find themselves thrust into a murder mystery with them as the lead suspects. Charlotte is a smart, intelligent, prickly teenager that also has a drug problem. She finds clues in the strangest of places and then uses them to solve all kinds of parts to this murder/mystery. Charlotte is not necessarily a really likeable character but that actually adds to the story. Jamie on the other hand, is a very likeable character and a great sidekick to Charlotte. This is a terrific murder mystery with the twist of the Sherlock Holmes- Watson dynamics woven through out.

Overall Book Score: excellent