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

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I'm hoping that by reading Charlie's story, which is ultimately a story about friendship, love, and bravery, readers will be encouraged to speak up about their own difficult journeys.

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Liz Lawson is the New York Times bestselling author of The Agathas, The Night In Question: An Agathas Mystery (with Kathleen Glasgow) and The Lucky Ones. Two high schoolers team up to investigate a classmate’s death and discover that their small California town is positively aboil with secrets. Fans of One of Us Is Lying and Riverdale can’t miss this page-turning who-done-it that’s sure to be the next must read Young Adult thriller! His girlfriend dumped him, his friends bailed, and now he spends his time hanging out with his little sister…and the one faithful friend who stuck around.Seething at the oddly lackadaisical response of local police to the disappearance of her former BFF on Halloween, 17-year-old Agatha Christie fan Alice Ogilvie enlists Iris Adams, her peer tutor, to launch an inquiry that not only bears immediate fruit in the form of a battered corpse at the base of nearby seaside cliffs, but leads to a veritable flood of obvious but conflicting clues and revelations that point to, and away from, foul play. Alice Ogilvie and Iris Adams became the talk of Castle Cove when they cracked the biggest case of the fall: the death of Brooke Donovan.

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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. It’s smart, it’s twisty, it’s layered, and it’s not predictable…Ihighly recommend this engrossing read and already need to see what mystery Iris and Alice will tackle next. Liz Lawson is the New York Times bestselling author of The Agathas (with Kathleen Glasgow) and The Lucky Ones. Jackson’s debut is well-executed and surprises readers with a connective web of interesting characters and motives. 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.Iris has her own reasons for wanting to disappear, though unlike Alice, she doesn’t have the money or the means. I gave Charlie my scars, but I also let her have her own story, too, because everyone deserves to have their story told.

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Without these cookies, we won't know if you have any performance-related issues that we may be able to address. Well,” I say, “I once saw a show about a guy who bludgeoned his mother to death in the kitchen and then cooked a full meal of pot roast and mashed potatoes, so anything is possible.They form an unlikely friendship centered around one event (the 'big' mystery), but each has their own motivations to solve the alleged crime. I really enjoyed the evolution of their friendship, and I feel like I got to know both main characters thoroughly, slowly and steadily just like in real life. Liz Lawson is The New York Times bestselling author of The Agathas, The Night In Question: An Agathas Mystery (with Kathleen Glasgow) and The Lucky Ones. Together, the Agathas put Brooke's killer away for good, and since then things around town have been almost back to normal.

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She’s not talking, so where she went and what happened to her is the biggest mystery in Castle Cove. 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. These kids who experience school shootings are normally just left behind / forgotten by the media once the hype died …more Thanks so much for the question. I freakin’ loved this book, and in my opinion, Alice Ogilvie and Iris Adams can definitely sit with Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars at lunch. 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.I freakin’ loved this book, and in my opinion, Alice Ogilvie and Iris Adams can definitely sit with Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars at lunch. There are clues the police are ignoring, a list of suspects a mile long and some very dangerous cliffs. 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.