Meddling Kids: A Novel

"Meddling Kids is a story about what might’ve happened to the Scooby Doo gang if they’d ever actually grown up. It’s about the surviving members of the Blyton Summer Detective Club returning to their hometown as adults to finally solve the one case that beat them. And it is awesome. It’s a book that lives completely in the sweet recollections of childhood summers and that exists in the power band of maximum pop-culture self-referentialism. It trades on memory and nostalgia with almost zero ironic distance, just embracing the ridiculousness of its own backstory with both arms, making the grown characters wear all their damage and all their scars in plain view. They were kids who saw some messed up stuff. They suffered horribly for it, and mostly in silence. Now they’re going back to mend those things in them that have been broken."