At that point, the man takes off running into the woods. A car chase ensues through the country roads, and eventually his car flips. One night, after a late night run to a local diner, the teens emerge from the building to find that they were being tailed by a man that resembled the local drug dealer. For a while they are working against a local policeman, Detective Shepard. Their friendship grows over their combined efforts to clear their name. When Lee turns up dead a few days later, Jamie and Charlotte are the chief subjects, particularly because the murderer staged the killing to resemble a classic Sherlock Holmes story. Ironically, Jamie ends up in a fistfight after the rugby player says ugly things about Charlotte. Though their friendship has a rocky beginning, they find common ground in their distaste for sophomore bully Lee Dobson. Both teens struggle with isolation and loneliness. Through some machinations of Jamie’s estranged father, the pair end up attending the same boarding school in rural Connecticut. A Study in Charlotte is Brittany Cavallaro’s first novel in a series featuring Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson, the descendants of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.
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