Margot Mertz Takes It Down

Veronica Mars meets Moxie in this hilarious and biting YA contemporary novel following Margot Mertz, a girl who runs an internet cleanup business and embarks on a quest to take down a revenge-porn site targeting the girls in her school.

Margot Mertz is a secret sleuth—okay, not really, but she does run an internet cleanup business helping students and teachers alike clear their internet presence of anything they don’t want anyone else to see. From secret embarrassing DM’s to viral videos and more, Margot cleans it all. After her parents foolishly lost her college fund, this is the only way she can make it to Stanford.

But when a fellow student comes to her asking her to take down a website that’s gathering nude pics of fellow Roosevelt High girls, things get personal. Margot must delve into the depths of her school to take down the culprit. The seedy underbelly of Roosevelt High is not unfamiliar to Margot—but somehow this case is stumping her at every turn—until she figures out that the only way to reach her suspects is to get close to perfect boy Avery Green. His access to every club, volunteer opportunity, sports team, and popular party is the key to solving her case.

When the case takes a shocking turn, Margot’s ready to burn the whole world down. No one targets the Roosevelt High girls on Margot’s watch. Mertz Clean Your Filth is on the case.

Author Biography

Carrie McCrossed and Ian McWelty are a husband-and-wife comedian/writing duo. Ian McWethy is a prolific playwright, having written forty plays that are immensely popular with high schools, where his one-acts are routinely among the top ten most produced in the US. Carrie McCrossen is a regular writer/performer at UCB, a contributor to Funny or Die, and an actor on shows like Divorce and Adam Ruins Everything. This is their debut novel.