Review of The Agathas

Love mysteries? Love Agatha Christie and Veronica Mars? Then try this fun YA mystery about a missing girl and the high school students who team up to crack the case of what happened to her. This is my Review of The Agathas!

The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson

To be published by Delacorte Books on May 3, 2022.

Thanks to the publisher for providing me an advance review copy.

Synopsis: Last summer, Alice Ogilve’s basketball-star boyfriend Steve dumped her. Then she disappeared for five days. But now, another one of Steve’s girlfriends has vanished: Brooke Donovan, Alice’s ex–best friend.

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.

In order to get the reward and prove Steve’s innocence, they need to figure out who killed Brooke Donovan. And luckily Alice has exactly what they need—the complete works of Agatha Christie. If there’s anyone that can teach the girls how to solve a mystery it’s the master herself.

Review of the Agathas

Agatha Christie has always been legendary, but she’s getting a bunch of new recognition lately. From The Christie Affair to the reissue of some of her paperbacks with gorgeous new covers to Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile being adapted as films, Agatha Christie is everywhere!

How was this book?

To me, it felt very Veronica Mars-inspired, taking place in a high school at an oceanside California town, featuring both sides of Veronica: Alice the popular girl, and Iris, the outcast.

It sounds from the acknowledgments that Kathleen Glasgow wrote Iris’s narrative and Liz Lawson wrote Alice’s. But the whole thing was so seamless that I never would have guessed. I had my eye on the culprit right from the start, and was happy to be correct. Must have been all those years reading Agatha, watching Veronica, and also Nancy Drew.

The Agathas was a really fun read, with lots of clues and suspects. If you’re a YA mystery reader, I think you’ll love this one – it definitely makes my list of favorite YA mysteries.

Check out my Review of the Night in Question, the sequel to The Agathas!

If you want to see all my favorite YA mysteries, check out my post on the Best YA Mysteries– it’s a great list and I update it regularly!

Or, if you are a Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars fan, you might like my post on The Best YA Mysteries for Nancy Drew Fans!