Meddling Kids

Meddling kids in it's focus on four teenaged kids and their dog solving mysteries is an obvious throwback to Enid Blyton's Famous Five (the crew refers to themselves as the Blyton Summer Detective Club) and Scooby Doo (as they solve crimes in the Zoinx River Vally of Oregon)

It's been 13 years since they unmasked the Sleepy Lake Monster, revealed as old man Wickley who would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids! Adulthood hangs heavy on the team as the ensuing years have not been kind. It's this damaged crew that reunites to take a closer look at what exactly was going on in their last case.

It's Scooby-Doo meets H.P. Lovecraft and it's just as dark. There's no man in a rubber mask here. Cantero ratchets up the horror elements while keeping you guessing throughout. The writing is a bit wooden and the dialog jumps back and forth from narrative to script format but he drops enough Easter Eggs to keep propelling the narrative forward. Cantero for the most part sticks to the rules of world he creates but occasionally oversteps, and I get it already - Kerri has nice hair. So not high literature but damn good fan fiction with one hell of a cover.