The Hollywood Reporter brings news that Universal Pictures have acquired the rights to a crime novel called Little Girl Lost and Jonathan Levine is attached to direct, with Scott Pilgrim scribe Michael Bacall on board to do the adaptation.

Published by Hard Case Crime, it’s a mystery about a New York City detective (the same setting as Levine’s previous feature The Wackness) who learns his deceased high school ex, whom he believed to be a doctor in the Midwest, was actually a stripper.

Levine is an interesting up-and-coming filmmaker who seems at ease with tackling different genres. He made the aforementioned, well-received 90’s-set coming-of-age drama The Wackness and the little-seen (but refreshing take on the traditional slasher film) All the Boys Love Mandy Lane.

The 34 year-old director currently has a comedy about cancer sufferers called Live With It (starring  Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen), in post-production.