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A lighthearted fun adventure for young teens or tweens. I Have A Hunch by Jeremy DeCoursey, Self-Published, out November 2019 This is a quite charming, young teen mystery that sometimes occasionally becomes a little silly. (Which the author freely acknowledges) Our heroine visits her eminently famous, private detective Uncle as a summer job. Her uncle then gets hired to solve a murder, and Alice, our protagonist, is swept along investigating the site, interviewing witnesses, all of whom seem suspicious. Eventually even running afoul of the murderer and having to try to apprehend the killer while not becoming the next victims! But all is brought to a happy conclusion. Running in the background is another more curious mystery, one that is not resolved in this book but appears to be setup to run throughout a series, of which this is the first book. There are many classic Holmesian tropes in play here: Alice's uncle is the brilliant detective, Alice is a Watsonish every-pe...