A Study in Charlotte

Brittany Cavallaro, New York Times bestselling author of the young adult Charlotte Holmes Mysteries series, holds a PhD in literature and teaches creative writing, as well as continuing to write fiction and poetry. A Study in Charlotte (2016) is the first title in the series. Subsequent titles (as of 2023) are The Last of August (2017), The Case for Jamie (2018), and A Question of Holmes (2019). A Study in Charlotte is categorized as in the genres Teen and Young Adult Detective Stories and Teen and Young Adult Law & Crime Fiction, and the novel contains minor elements of the romance genre.

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Content Warning: This novel refers to incidents of rape and frequent drug use.

Plot Summary

The novel is set at the fictional Sherringford Academy, a US Ivy League prep school in Connecticut. Events span the months of October through December in an unspecified contemporary year. The story uses first-person narration from the viewpoint of 16-year-old James Watson, though the Epilogue departs from this format, switching to 16-year-old Charlotte Holmes’s

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