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Charlotte Illes Is Not a Detective
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DEBUT Podcaster Siegel’s charming comic debut, which is based on a popular TikTok series created by the author, is terrific fun. Charlotte Illes is perfectly fine. At least, that is what she tells her family and friends. But they know better. Charlotte hasn’t really been “fine” since she quit being Lottie Illes, kid detective, almost a decade ago. Now, in an effort to help Charlotte reboot her life, her brother Landon asks Charlotte to look into a series of anonymous notes that are being left for Landon’s girlfriend Olivia. Charlotte reluctantly agrees to “look around” a bit, all the while insisting to anyone who will listen to her that she is definitely not getting back into the detection business!
VERDICT Not since Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files has there been such a delightful literary marriage of endearingly quirky characters and deliciously dry wit. Fans of Francine Prose’s The Maid or Meg Cabot’s Heather Wells mysteries will equally embrace the arrival of Charlotte and her cohorts on the detecting scene.
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