A Study in Charlotte (Charlotte Holmes, #1)

by Brittany Cavallaro

“How to defend myself. How to move silently through a room, how to locate every possible exit within seconds of entering a space. Entire city plans, beginning with London, including the names of every business on every street, and the fastest way to get to any of them. How, in short, to be always aware of what everyone is doing and thinking. From there, you can reason to why they do the things they do.”

Really, with role models like him, it was surprising I wasn’t already in jail.

This was a subject I didn’t want to touch without full body armor and a ten-foot pole.

‘Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven’t they carried you everywhere, up to now?’”

Her brain was like a bear trap: nothing escaped alive.

“Would you know she’s one of the nicer ones?”

I began wondering if there was some kind of Watsonian guide for the care and keeping of Holmeses.

If I was important, it was only as a conduit.

Without each other, we could, quite literally, die.

Well, my father had married the right woman. She was just as insensitive as he was.

If I had a rope, this was its end.