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|title=The Dead Girls Detective Agency
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|publisher=Much in Little
|date=October 2012
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In the spirit of fairness, I’m going to start by saying this: at the doddering age of twenty -five, I am ten years too old for this book. I have crested the metaphorical hill and regrettably now view the lands of adolescence from a height, trying to remember what it was like to agonise over school and boys and wondering when I got a mortgage and reading glasses. This book was never really intended for me, so on the occasions where I felt myself rolling my eyes at the main character I choose to believe that these are shining examples of realism. After all, I certainly cringe at enough of my own teenage memories.
The Dead Girls Detective Agency takes us with Charlotte Feldman, an average school girl who is pushed under a train and wakes up to find that the afterlife for murdered teenagers is a downtown hotel from where they must solve their cases and get the killer to confess in order to move on. I’d call it a fresh and original take on the whodunit if I hadn't seen variants of it before. However, it does have individuality. The sole condition for moving on is solving the murder – there’s no pansying around finding absolution or atoning for transgressions.
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