Hardboiled detective fiction meets secret wizarding school fiction. A hard-drinking, mediocre, non-magical PI gets hired to solve a murder at the school for teens who can do magic where her estranged and very much magical twin sister is on staff. The mystery is pretty good, but I think the book is really more about the main character (not really) dealing with her hot mess of a life and with her relationship with her twin. The writing, again, is pretty good, and I felt eager to keep reading each time I picked it up. Pokes a bit of pleasing fun at a certain mega-series by the Transphobe Who Shall Not Be Named, or at least at a few of the tropes that it made genre-defining. Overall, not spectacular but enjoyable.
Originally posted by Scott on Goodreads.