I really enjoyed this story about a group of unlikely friends trying to solve a mystery. Alice disappeared a year ago after she and her boyfriend, Steve broke up. Alice came back and is somewhat of a social pariah. Her friends want nothing to do with her. Her old BFF Brooke is now dating Steve and she disappears after a very public fight with him. The adults don't seem to be taking it seriously so Alice, inspired by Agatha Christie novels joins up with her tutor, Iris and her friends in the Forensic club to try to find Brooke and solve the mystery. This read kept me entertained and guessing. I'm excited for the sequel.

This is the first work I have read of either author and I loved it!

An adorable YA mystery that is faced paced and is up there in my favorites of all time! The mystery solving duo is Iris a nerdy and insecure lovely young girl and Alice, the famous Gone Girl of the school!
Alice was one of the popular kids until her bf breaks up with her for her bestfriend Brooke! Alice goes missing for 5 days, but then shows up like nothing happened!!
Iris is a bit different, she is just surviving, her mom is making ends meet and is tutoring Alice for the sole purpose of getting enough to get out of this town. Alice's ex friend Brooke goes missing and the two girls team up to help find her!

I love them together as a team and the plot was fast paced and amazingly executed! Love this one and can't wait to read anything else either lady releases! 5/5

Thanks to netgalley for an ARC!

The Agatha's is a delightful mystery with precise pacing that keeps tension and interest equally high throughout the whole book. I found the characters interesting and their individual arcs compelling, and appreciated the way they grew over the course of the novel. Perfect for readers that grew up on Nancy Drew & Agatha Christie and have been searching for a contemporary take.

This was a super fun read that kept me guessing. I liked the development of the main characters while also having a fast paced and engaging mystery. I hope for a sequel!

I thought the title of this book was so clever. I loved the use of mixed media, such as texts and news casts, etc. The twists and turns, while slightly unbelievable, could definitely be plausible.

Alice went through a lot of self growth during the time after she went missing. Iris was one of my favorite characters, I loved how she was entwined into the story.

I can’t wait to continue on with this series, it was so good and I feel like it’s underrated. I dot a sense of A Good Girls Guide to Murder, but I think I may have enjoyed it more to be honest!

Resolution strained credulity and characters of color appeared to be added for window dressing only.

I haven't read Agatha Christie books, but I have seen some of the movies, so I knew I had to request this book. The cover caught my eye! Geared toward the younger part of YA even though it's a murder mystery

The Agathas is a YA mystery about, initially, a girl named Alice. She's rich, popular, and has it all. Until her boyfriend leaves her for her best friend, she disappears for a few days (a la Agatha Christie), and comes back with the whole town hating her for wasting the missing person resources. Now she's sort of a social pariah.

Iris is a social outcast who definitely knows the vibes, but also does not have much hope for liking Alice when she agrees to tutor her for a hefty sum. Not long after they start working together, Alice's ex best friend goes missing. No one is really taking it serious, partially because of Alice's previous stunt, and the girls take it into their own hands, alongside some of Iris's friends.

Alice is dealing with her fall from grace, the fact that her rich parents finance her life but don't raise her, and the pain of losing a best friend that she never got to make up with. Iris is dealing with being poor and the restraining order that she and her mom have out on someone who is sneaking their way back into their lives - her main focus is making the money needed for she and her mom to leave town.

Their blooming friendship is really fun to watch, the mystery investigation has plenty good twists and turns, and the ending has me super excited for the next one. I can't really say much at all about the mystery itself because it's all really a spoiler, innit

If you are looking for a diverse mystery, don't even check over here. I do not know of anyone in this story that isn't straight, white, and cis. Maybe a character with the last name Ramirez, and maybe one of Iris's friends, but neither of those are even explicit. But hey, I'd rather them not do it than do it badly I guess

This was a fun, engaging, and quick read. I would highly recommend for young adult readers looking for an interesting mystery — and it may even turn them to read Agatha Christie!

I thought this was a cute easy read. I found it a little far fetched that none of the adults seemed competent at all. The teen language was a little stilted but maybe that was on purpose? It seemed a little forced but maybe younger readers won’t mind.

This book was a total blast. As a huge Agatha Christie fan, I was immediately intrigued by the premise. I loved that there was a teen who also loved Christie, because that's when I first started reading her work. Unfortunately, though, I haven't been able to use my knowledge to solve any mysteries of my own. ;)

This book centers around a mystery involving the murder of a popular girl on Halloween night. She disappears into the woods, after fleeing a Halloween party, after which she is not seen or heard from for several days. After completing a search, her friends find her and decide to go on the hunt for clues about who killed her and why. I loved the dual narration: I think it worked really well and the voices were different enough but blended well. Alice and Iris had a believable friendship. I was intrigued by the mystery and enjoyed the satisfying twisty-turny ending.

This book also had a hint of Pretty Little Liars, which is something else I really enjoy, and when the texts from the blocked numbers come in leading the girls to clues one way or another, I'm immediately hooked. I liked how this book seemed to draw from many mystery tropes while giving us some great commentary on social class and financial gain, as well as the power of social media.

This would be a great book club book!

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Delacorte Press for approving me for this amazing ARC. I absolutely love everything Agatha Christie, so I was all in once the premise of this book dropped. Honestly, this book was a lot better than I was expecting. For me, the story line of the book had nothing really to do with Agatha Christie, just a quote thrown in at the beginning of each chapter and a few Christie references here and there all because the main character of the book liked Christie's work. The book tackles a lot of topics including child abuse, domestic violence, violent relationships, drugging someone, and the power of social media. I absolutely loved the characters and there was a lot of character development between Alice and Iris. Between Alice and Iris it tackles the topic of social status and money status and the life between two lifestyles especially when they come together and the two become best friends. Sometimes switching between the two characters became a bit confusing, but overall it was easy to follow along. The book is very fast paced. I read the book in less than 24 hours. It was so much fun to read. Just when you think you figured it out, the plot took a major turn, and all of a sudden you find out who the murderer is. Sometimes, the book can become repetitive and you're sitting there thinking "why is this in the book?" but overall, it was a great start to the series, and I will definitely be picking up the next week. I decided to rate this book 4.5 stars rounded up.

I grew up on the fruits of the Golden Age of Mystery. Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Margery Allingham were my introduction to the murder mystery genre. My long Southern childhoods were filled with dogeared paperbacks filched from my grandparents' bookshelves, the Goodwill, and the Friends of the Library book sale rack at my local public library. As I grew, so too did the thriller genre, and these childhood favorites fell to the wayside as I devoured books that were a little darker, a little more intense, and a little more psychologically driven. It was not until I picked up "The Agathas' that I realized how deeply I had missed the murder mystery genre. I devoured this novel and loved every single moment of the reading experience. I would read a thousand mysteries with Iris and Alice at the helm of their investigatory group of outcasts.

Alice Ogilvie has garnered the unwanted, but not undeserved, status as a "poor little rich girl" after engineering her own disappearance after things with her uber-popular boyfriend, Steve Anderson, went south and he left her for her best friend, Brooke Donovan. Instead of coming back to the worry and attention she craved, she came back to a town determined to make her the selfish villain for wasting police resources and worrying everyone sick.

Her disappearance has had another unintended side effect when Brooke disappears after one of the most popular parties of the year, no one seems too keen to search for her. Despite Alice's attempts to raise the alarm and begin a real search effort for Brooke, the town refuses to engage in another "girl who cried wolf" search attempt. Enter Iris Adams, one of the smartest girls at Castle Cove High and just the woman Alice needs on her side to blow the case wide open after the police seem content to pin the disappearance on Steve Anderson. With Iris' intelligence, Alice's deep knowledge of Agatha Christie's cannon, and both of their secret desires to profit from the case (Iris desperately wants the reward money and Alice the positive attention that solving the case could bring to her tarnished reputation), they might just solve a murder.

With a style and flair that would make any of the old-school Queens of Mystery proud, Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson have delivered a can't miss novel. "The Agathas" will keep readers on the edge of their seats, and guessing to the very last page.

Special thanks to NetGalley and to Random House Children's for providing an Advanced Reader's Copy of "The Agathas" in exchange for an unbiased review!

The Agathas begs to be read in one sitting on a vacation! This YA mystery is a perfect, escapist story that will hook you from the first chapter. You'll be guessing from the start and wishing for more.

Alice and Iris make a classic mystery team and the duo leaps off the page. The authors crafted such realistic characters who are determined to solve the disappearance of another teen in their small town. They use the works of Agatha Christie as a guide. The authors captured the tone of old mystery novels so well. However, it's not necessary to be familiar with Christie's work to enjoy this one. The Agathas is approachable to all readers!

Fans of Brittany Cavallaro's Sherlock series will love this!

I had anxiously awaited this book for months after it was announced and was so excited when I received the email that I had been given an eARC. I had set aside an entire weekend to dive in and lose myself in this story. And then of course, life hit hard and I wasn't able to get into until months after release.

That being said, KATHLEEN HAS DONE IT AGAIN! Once life had calmed down enough, and I was able to sit down and read it, I became absolutely OBSESSED with this book! I could not put it down for the life of me! I had so find out what happened and who the culprit was (and of course tried to solve it myself!). There were definitely a lot of twists and turns that I did not expect (hello Rafael!) but it was a great discovery at the end!

I look forward to many more from Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson ( who will now be joining my long list of autobuy authors)!

Thanks to Net Galley for the advanced copy!

I have and will always adore a detective books. I love figuring everything out. I always try to beat the MC to the answers. A teen detective book is even more of a win for me. I cannot wait to purchase this book for my daughter. The story had amazing characters and I loved the twist.

Absolutely loved The Agathas! It is a quick read for sure! I cannot wait to read the sequel that comes out next year.

I loved The Agathas! Such a fun read with twists and countless Christie references - thank you for this masterpiece

What a great YA mystery read! It was engaging and kept me reading.

I loved the references to Dame Agatha Christie as I’m a huge fan of her writing. As the characters are trying to unravel what happened to their classmate, they bring forth tins of questions and make you question what you know for sure.

Highly recommended for those who love YA and mysteries.

I really enjoyed this read!! It was a quick read and one that i really enjoyed. It gave me massive nancy drews vibes and also a true YA Mstery. It was quick read. I also loved the friendship that was at the heart of this read! I also enjoyed how this book dealt with harder topcis! It was quick read ad one that i really enjoyed the side characters. I woudl love to see more books set in this world!!