Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Source: Library
Genre: Young Adult / Mysteries & Detective Stories
The hotly anticipated third book in the New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes trilogy, in which Charlotte and Jamie finally face their longtime enemy…and their true feelings for each other.
It’s been a year since the shocking death of August Moriarty, and Jamie and Charlotte haven’t spoken. Jamie is going through the motions at Sherringford, trying to finish his senior year without incident, with a nice girlfriend he can’t seem to fall for. Until strange things start happening to him. Strange things that might mean nothing at all—or that someone is after him again.
Charlotte is on the run, from Lucien Moriarty and from her own mistakes. No one has seen her since that fateful night on the lawn in Sussex. Charlotte wants it that way. She knows she isn’t safe to be around. She knows that her Watson can’t forgive her.
Holmes and Watson may not be looking to reconcile, but there is someone who wants the team back together. Someone who has been quietly observing them both. Making plans. Biding their time. Someone who wants to see one of them suffer and the other one dead.
In this explosive third book in the Charlotte Holmes series, Holmes and Watson face the ultimate test: they must unravel the case of their lives without unraveling each other.
The Case for Jamie is the third installment in author Brittany Cavallaro's Charlotte Holmes series. To put things in perspective, this story takes place a year after the events that happened in The Last of August. Our main characters, Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are separated because of what happened, and the fact that Charlotte is now running and hiding from Lucien Moriarty while trying to counteract and plans he has for her as well as Jamie.
The main question still remains; will they or won't they? Readers have spent the past several books asking the question about Charlotte and
Jamie. Some fans ship them and others
wish they’d just stay friends—but if one thing is clear, it’s that
these two teen sleuths have undeniable chemistry and beyond-witty
banter. But, can they both survive the brutal reality of what is to come when they are separated by an ocean, and revenge is knocking on their doorstep?
Jamie is going through the motions
at Sherringford, trying to finish his senior year without incident. He has a girlfriend he can’t seem to fall for even though she is pretty special on her own merits. Jamie can't help but compare his new girlfriend to Charlotte. Then strange things start
happening to him. Things that seemingly mean nothing at all—or that
someone is after him again. To make matters even more twisted, he receives warnings about no longer being safe at the school. In the meantime, Jamie's father and Leader Holmes attempt to find Charlotte since she is the common denominator in what is happening to Jamie.
Charlotte is on the run
from Lucien Moriarty and from her own mistakes that happened too frequently. No one has seen her
since that fateful night on the lawn in Sussex—and Charlotte wants to keep it
that way. She knows she isn’t safe to be around. Charlotte desperately misses her only friend, but she knows Watson
can’t forgive her. But, she's not so cold that she doesn't care what is happening to him. In fact, she has a spy within the school urging her to come back so that Jamie doesn't end up in prison, or worse for things he is being accused of doing.
A Study in Charlotte and The Last of August were told entirely by Jamie with bit parts from Charlotte. This time around, the author chooses to alternate chapters and narratives between Jamie and Charlotte. This is the first time you can actually get into her head and discover what makes her tick, and what she has had to suffer through, not only from her screwed up family and what they did to her, but from her own drug abuse, PTSD, and sexual assault. One thing that is apparent is that Charlotte is brilliant, flawed, vulnerable, and much in need of someone to tell her she will be okay.
For the record, this is not the final installment in the series. I know readers have been saying that after reading the ending, but it isn't factual. In fact, the fourth book is called The Question of Charlotte which I have read and will be reviewing shortly. The last half of this book was the most entertaining. The first part is a session that proves that both characters could use a brilliant psychiatrist to examine not only their guilt, but their fatal attraction towards each other that oftens finds them deep in bloodshed.
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