Tag: #mysteries
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Ranking Enola Holmes Mysteries
Made even more popular by the Netflix adaptation, I read this series back in middle school and as implied by the title, it follows the disgraceful, very late in life, younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. Upon her mother’s abandonment, and the threat of boarding school, Enola runs off to London where she unintentionally gets up…
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Ranking P.C. Hawke Mysteries
Zindel is most remembered for early 70s favorites breaking the YA mold with his quirky characters embroiled in mysteries, mundane high school adolescence and the occasional flying saucer, but I discovered him from this series. P.C. Hawke Mysteries follow the titular P.C. and his best friend, Mackenzie solving mysteries in NY in the early aughts.…
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Celeb-inspired mysteries
Now I’m not talking about books written by celebrities but books where these celebrities solve mysteries in their every-day lives. Like these below.
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Top 4 Meg Cabot books
Girl meet Boy series This fun, frothy romcom series is written entirely in epistolotory form. meaning that it’s written in emails, texts, and such. No prose, which makes it a very fast read as the characters swap gossip, get into miscommunications and get sexy. The romances all share small-town girls falling for outsider city boys,…
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P.C. Hawke Mysteries
P.C. Hawke Mysteries was a middle school mysteries series by the late Paul Zindel, author of sci fi novels like The Pig-Man. It is centers on two sleuthing high schoolers whose natural curiosity and ability to see things that adults miss allow them to solve more cases than the incompetent adults. Classic stuff.