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

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Full of twists, mysteries, and so much heart, The Agathas will keep you up late guessing who-exactly-dunit. Perfect for readers who like their thrillers with an extra dose of fun!”—Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows But now they have a murder to solve. There are clues the police are ignoring, a list of suspects a mile long and some very dangerous cliffs. Enter Iris Adams, Alice’s tutor. Iris has her own reasons for wanting to disappear, though unlike Alice, she doesn’t have the money or the means. That could be changed by the hefty reward Brooke’s grandmother is offering to anyone who can share information about her granddaughter’s whereabouts. The police are convinced Steve is the culprit, but Alice isn’t so sure, and with Iris on her side, she just might be able to prove her theory.

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you shouldn’t force people to be vulnerable. Sometimes, you need them to be angry, and impetuous, and mean, and hardheaded.” Which is how May meets Zach. And how Zach meets May. And how both might figure out that surviving could be an option after all. Kathleen Glasgow is the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces, How to Make Friends with the Dark, and You'd Be Home Now. She lives and writes in Tucson, Arizona. Tuesday, 5/30 at 6pm - Barnes and Noble - conversation between co-authors Kathleen Glasgow and Liz LawsonPart Agatha Christie, part Veronica Mars, and completely entertaining." —Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Of Us Is Lying 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.” The mystery thrills and gratifies thanks to escalating stakes and devastating reveals.“— Publishers Weekly May is a survivor. But she doesn’t feel like one. She feels angry. And lost. And alone. Eleven months after the school shooting that killed her twin brother, May still doesn’t know why she was the only one to walk out of the band room that day. No one gets what she went through–no one saw and heard what she did. No one can possibly understand how it feels to be her. After falling from grace last summer, Agatha Christie-obsessed Alice Ogilvie needs to stay out of trouble. While smart and reclusive Iris Adams just wants to get the hell out of Castle Cove.

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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. The Castle Cove police aren’t exactly great at solving crimes. In fact, they’re notorious for not solving crimes. Wildly ambitious and wholly empathetic, devastatingly raw, and impossibly gentle; a must-read in this moment.” Everyone believes that Salil Singh killed his girlfriend, Andrea Bell, five years ago—except Pippa Fitz-Amobi.The insides of things are so much different than the outsides. Most people don't care to find that out.”

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Two high schoolers team up to investigate a classmate’s death and discover that their small California town is positively aboil with secrets.

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Liz Lawson Thanks so much for the question. 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. These kids who experience school shootings are normally just left behind / forgotten by the media once the hype died down, and they're left with the gaping hole in their lives. I felt that exploring that was vitally important, and I hope my book helps some of those kids. It’s really not fantastic. It’s more exactly what my parents do: buy me something—something I cannot stand—because it’s expensive.” Crime Reads | THE GREAT LOS ANGELES CRIME NOVEL—AND THE WOMEN WHO ARE REVITALIZING IT (Crime Reads) Full of witty writing, banter, and adventure…readers will delight at the girls’ creative ways of drawing upon Agatha Christie to solve Castle Cove’s biggest head-scratcher of all time.”— Booklist An English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. Also known as the bestselling author of all time. Also, one bad bitch.”

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Adolescent criminals seek the haul of a lifetime in a fantasyland at the beginning of its industrial age. It means that if you think failing out of school to be a detective is a smart thing to do, you are even more naive than I thought.”Iris,” Alice says wearily. “You seem like such a nice person and her your brain is full of horrible things.” The Castle Cove Police Department thinks it’s an open-and-shut case, but Alice and Iris are sure it can’t be that simple. Park isn’t a murderer—and the girls know all too well that in life, and in mysteries, things are rarely what they appear to be. To understand the present, sometimes you need to look to the past. The dangerous city of Ketterdam is governed by the Merchant Council, but in reality, large sectors of the city are given over to gangs who run the gambling dens and brothels. The underworld's rising star is 17-year-old Kaz Brekker, known as Dirtyhands for his brutal amorality. Kaz walks with chronic pain from an old injury, but that doesn't stop him from utterly destroying any rivals. When a councilman offers him an unimaginable reward to rescue a kidnapped foreign chemist—30 million kruge!—Kaz knows just the team he needs to assemble. There's Inej, an itinerant acrobat captured by slavers and sold to a brothel, now a spy for Kaz; the Grisha Nina, with the magical ability to calm and heal; Matthias the zealot, hunter of Grishas and caught in a hopeless spiral of love and vengeance with Nina; Wylan, the privileged boy with an engineer's skills; and Jesper, a sharpshooter who keeps flirting with Wylan. Bardugo broadens the universe she created in the Grisha Trilogy, sending her protagonists around countries that resemble post-Renaissance northern Europe, where technology develops in concert with the magic that's both coveted and despised. It’s a highly successful venture, leaving enough open questions to cause readers to eagerly await Volume 2.