The Agathas: ‘Part Agatha Christie, part Veronica Mars, and completely entertaining.’ Karen M. McManus

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Mona Moody—­the classic film star—died there almost a century ago, and Alice is pretty sure the police got that invest­igation wrong, too. With all the twists and turns of a classic Agatha Christie novel, told through a delightful and engaging contemporary lens, The Agathas is impossible not to devour. Last October, Alice Ogilvie’s ex-best friend, Brooke Donovan, was killed—and if it weren’t for Alice’s unlikely alliance with her tutor, Iris Adams, and her library of the complete works of Agatha Christie, the wrong person would almost certainly be sitting in prison for the crime.

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Everyone has that moment I think, the moment when something so momentous happens that it rips your very being into small pieces. The main characters have mysteries of their own that they not only hide from each other, but pretty much everyone else. The twists and turns; the revelations will leave you absolutely gobsmacked - and yet the way the authors wrap up the mystery gives the reader a rare form of closure that many mystery - thrillers rarely do. Kathleen Glasgow is the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and How to Make Friends with the Dark and has been published in 26 countries. With his help, Pip digs deeper, unveiling unsavory facts about Andie and the real reason Sal’s friends couldn’t provide him with an alibi.Their individual reasons start to really come out small piece by small piece for the readers and characters alike.

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Alice, a popular girl, whose fall from grace makes her a pariah and Iris, an outcast and a nerd form an unlikely partnership when they both realise that their classmate’s death is not an accident at all. So when their school dance at the infamous Levy Castle—the site of film starlet Mona Moody's unsolved death back in the 1940s—is interrupted by a violent assault, Iris and Alice pull out their murder boards and get back to work.I gave Charlie my scars, but I also let her have her own story, too, because everyone deserves to have their story told. Pip has known and liked Sal since childhood; he’d supported her when she was being bullied in middle school.

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Online articles about the case and interview transcripts are provided throughout, and Pip’s capstone logs offer insights into her thought processes as new evidence and suspects arise. They form an unlikely friendship centered around one event (the 'big' mystery), but each has their own motivations to solve the alleged crime.

As the two gather and struggle to make sense of their evidence in traded-off chapters (with help from a squad of enthusiastic would-be fellow sleuths and a savvy public defender with flexible ethics), readers quickly twig to the fact that they themselves are nursing secrets. I picked up this one on a whim; mostly cause I was in the mood for a thriller; and the blurb just caught my attention. Liz Lawson is the author of The Lucky Ones, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020, and the New York Times bestselling YA thriller The Agathas which she co-wrote with NYT Bestselling author Kathleen Glasgow. At once you both believe that you can and will solve the mystery whilst equally slapping your head in absolute shock horror when you get it wrong. But the town of Castle Cove holds many secrets, and Alice and Iris have no idea how much danger they’re about to walk into.