Blood and Weeds

Good neighbors make good victims...
When ten-year-old Teddy Stride opened a junior detective agency, he wanted to impress the professional down the street. He didn't worry about the competition, he just wanted to make sure his detective agency wouldn't cause any problems with the man he idolized. But when Teddy's father goes off the rails, and his precocious investigative prowess fails him, he turns to the only place he knows who might be able to find out what's wrong before it's too late: Clarke Lantham Investigations.
Clarke Lantham hates getting involved in, but something about Teddy makes it impossible to say no. But he had no way to know that taking the case would send him straight to the heart of the biggest academic scandal in state history, and set him on a collision course with ghosts from his past that could jeopardize his freedom, ruin his career, and endanger the life of everyone he cares about.