Adolescent criminals seek the haul of a lifetime in a fantasyland at the beginning of its industrial age. 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 I open the window above the sink so the ocean air pours in, cool and salty. Maybe it’ll freeze the tears brimming in my eyes. Amateur detectives Alice and Iris are about to uncover just how many secrets their sleepy seaside town is hiding…

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A clever plot that kept me guessing till the end. The Agathas is an absolutely addictive read!”—June Hur, author of The Forest of Stolen Girls and The Red Palace Iris,” Alice says wearily. “You seem like such a nice person and her your brain is full of horrible things.” 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. A haunting, beautiful, and necessary book." —Nicola Yoon , #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, EverythingI will miss the sea when I finally get me and my mom out of here. I don’t know where I’ll take us, but it has to be far from this place. Somewhere he can’t bother us ever again. The road is busy tonight. It wraps along the cliffs, between the ocean and the hills, and there are only a few houses to the west of the highway. Downtown Castle Cove is on the east side of things, cut into the bottom of the hills. The apartment, the blinking lightbulb. The air around me closes in, making me smaller, smaller, nothing, everything in­side me disappearing.

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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.”— BooklistIt’s been here since before Castle Cove was even really a town, and all the property on the cliff side of the road used to belong to it—according to what I’ve heard from Kennedy, at one point it had like one hundred acres, all to itself. Legend has it that Brooke’s great-grandmother used to have a zoo on the property, with llamas and tigers and everything. 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. I take deep breaths as I walk down Highway 1, wiping my face dry in the cold air, my heart a loud drum in my chest.

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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. But he’s not smiling now. Instead, he looks kind of pissed. And a little . . . messed up? He’s kind of weaving every which way. I didn’t think Steve was a drinker. He’s pretty straight-edge because of basketball. Wildly ambitious and wholly empathetic, devastatingly raw, and impossibly gentle; a must-read in this moment.” Two high schoolers team up to investigate a classmate’s death and discover that their small California town is positively aboil with secrets. But, before I hit downtown, I reach my destination—the Castle. It’s on the west side of the road, set on ten acres, the big­gest parcel of land on the cliff side of the highway. It was built by Brooke’s great-grandfather about eighty years ago as a residence for their family.I turn up my music as high as it’ll go, drowning out anymore racing thoughts, and take off down the driveway out to Highway 1. She has got to be kidding. She’s playing it off like she’s the victim? “Haven’t I done enough damage? You’re the one who stole my boyfriend—” A voice hisses out of the dark. Brooke Donovan’s voice, to be precise. Who apparently followed us, along with Kennedy and Park. Kennedy has her phone out, recording everything, Park hopping around behind the two of them excitedly.