A few months ago, Alice Ogilvie and her friend Iris Adams solved the murder of fellow high school student Brooke Donovan, much to the chagrin of the local police who had arrested the wrong person. Now it's the night of Castle Cove High School's Sadie Hawkins Dance. It is being held at Castle Levy, a beautiful estate where movie star Mona Moody died over eighty years ago. Alice uses the dance as her chance to check out Castle Levy. She does not think that Mona Moody's death was an accident, and she is hoping to find evidence to prove her theory. What she finds is former friend Rebecca Kennedy, bloody and unconscious, with another former friend, Helen Park, standing over her holding a knife. Helen says she didn't do it, but the police don't believe her. Alice and Iris listen to her story and think she may be telling the truth. Now it's up to them to find the person who tried to kill Rebecca.

This is the second book in The Agathas series. Alice and Iris are both big fans of Agatha Christie. They use the investigative techniques they learned by reading Agatha Christie books to solve these murder mysteries. I love how they stop and go over what they know so far, who their suspects are, and who they have proved innocent. This keeps everything straight in my head and makes the story enjoyable. The story was fast paced. It felt like a cross between Veronica Mars and a Scooby Do mystery. Very entertaining. I hope there will eventually be more books in this series, but right now there are only two. My rating: 4.5 Stars.

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