Charlotte Illes was renowned as a child for the mysteries that she solved. As a teenager, she chose to leave behind her detective career and try something else. However, that "something else" didn't really thrill her, and at the beginning of this story, she's 25, out of work, living with her mother, and trying to find suitable women to date. Her success in the dating world is stymied by Google: each potential date she meets just wants to talk about her fame as a child detective, which she finds extremely off-putting.
Her brother and her best friend try to get her interested in detective work again since she was so good at it, and after resisting the impulse, Charlotte finally starts to look into a case for them: her brother's girlfriend works for a company that has some of its employees trying to join a union. One of the people has just disappeared. Not long ago, another was found dead. Charlotte works in conjunction with her brother's girlfriend, along with Charlotte's own childhood friends who had helped her solve mysteries years ago.
The camaraderie and banter of Charlotte and her friends is entertaining, as is watching Charlotte get back into her detective work – she's a bit rusty at it since it's been a while. She makes a few really cringey mistakes, but once she gets past them, it's smooth sailing. Or is it?!
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