We Had a Hunch by Tom Ryan

 

I picked this up from the library in the hope--maybe something like the expectation, based on the cover copy--that it was going to be a light-hearted and witty inversion of Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys books, in the vein of what *Meddling Kids* did with Scooby-Doo. As it turns out, this is not that kind of book. There's no sparkle here and hardly any wit, and practically nothing to care about after 180-ish of 330-ish pages, when I stopped reading. The main thing I was taking away was that none of the non-POV characters seemed remarkably trustworthy, and that none of the POV characters were particularly interesting or likeable.