EXCLUSIVE: A+E Studios has optioned We Had a Hunch , the latest novel from Edgar Award-nominated and USA Today bestselling author Tom Ryan , to develop as a TV series with industry veteran Peter Johnson ( Supernatural , Nikita ) producing.

The book, pitched as Nancy Drew meets Yellowjackets , was published by Grove Atlantic in the U.S. and by Simon & Schuster in Canada and hit the market today. Ryan will serve as an EP of the project.

Set in Edgar Mills, Massachusetts, the book and TV series follow a group of once-celebrated teen detectives whose fame turned tragic after a brutal case in 2000 left two dead and the so-called “Janitor Killer” behind bars. Twenty-five years later, the friends – now scattered, scarred, and estranged -are drawn back together when a new murde

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