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JILLIAN CADE: (FAKE) PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR

Jen Klein

Ally Carter’s megabestselling Gallagher Girls series meets Veronica Mars with a paranormal twist when Jillian Cade’s (fake!) private eye service unearths far more than she bargained for.
Jillian Cade doesn’t believe in the paranormal. But ever since her famous professor father abandoned her to travel the world for “research,” she’s milked his reputation—and all the suckers who believe in the stuff—by taking over his private investigation firm. After all, a high school junior has to take care of herself, especially since she’s on her own. Ironically, it’s when she takes on a case that might involve a totally non-paranormal missing person that things get strange. Particularly when Sky Ramsey—a new boy at school and an avid fan of her father’s—forces his way into becoming her partner and won’t shut up about succubi, of all things. Jillian’s feelings for Sky take her by surprise, but that’s no match for the surprise that the poor saps she’s been scamming know something she doesn’t. Yet. Emmy-nominated Jen Klein grew up in North Carolina and studied theatre at Appalachian State University. She wrote the screenplay for the movie Choke and is also the author of the forthcoming contemporary YA romance Shuffle, Repeat (a contemporary teen romance based on the popular movie When Harry Met Sally).Jen is currently a writer on the hit TV series Grey’s Anatomy. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two sons, and several animals, all of whom are unruly and ill-behaved.
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Published 2015-09-01 by Soho Teen

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To say this is a mash-up of Veronica Mars and The X-Files doesn’t quite do Jillian Cade: (Fake) Paranormal Investigator justice. She’s her own strong, scathingly witty, big-hearted phenomenon, and her story will keep you up late, turning pages.

Klein builds her underworld with both logic and farce, paralleling Jillian’s own skepticism and quick wit.

A detective story with a heavy romance bent… Klein’s story is quick and funny despite its darker subject matter.

Jillian Cade is the real thing. Jen Klein's fearless, irreverent heroine takes her place in the canon alongside Buffy and Veronica Mars ... an irresistible, smart, and heartfelt debut with a paranormal twist that kept me guessing until the action-packed end.

If Nancy Drew’s snarkier cousin moved to Sunnydale, you’d have something like Jillian Cade. A delightfully fun and fast debut.

[F]unny and suspenseful… Part mystery, part romance, with real paranormal action, this book will appeal to fans of mystery, fantasy, and romance.