A Study in Charlotte was a very fun read.  It’s new take on the Sherlock Holmes stories.  This time it’s the descendants of Holmes and John Watson.  In this world, the famed detective and his assistant were real.  Watson chronicled Holmes’ cases and well fictionalized them.  The Holmes family continue to solve crimes and being eccentric, while the Watsons continue to be normal.  Here we catch up with the latest generation of Holmes’ and Watson’s when Jaime Watson starts at a new boarding school. Jaime meets Charlotte Holmes, the girl who is full of mystery as anything else. (For some reason I thought Jaime was a girl and I was a little disappointed to find out that he isn’t but I got over it.) There are little sprinklings of the originally stories throughout the novels and the nastiest parts of the stories like Holmes’ drug use.  Charlotte is just as impossible as the original Holmes or Benedict Cumberbatch’s.  Shortly after Holmes and Watson meet a fellow student is murder in a way that is reminiscent of Holmes’ stories.  Of course, they are the prime suspects.  They have to work together to clear their names. They story goes through many twists and turns that will keep you guessing all through the story.  You don’t have to be a fan of Sherlock Holmes to love this book.  You just have to enjoy a good mystery with interesting characters and you’ll be set.