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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

  • 431 pages ยท about 7 hours
  • First published 2019
  • 38 editions

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1 About this book

Everyone is talking about A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! With shades of Serial and Making a Murderer this is the story about an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you'll never expect. Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself.

It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer?

Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur.

  • Murder
  • Mystery
  • Young adult fiction, social themes
  • Young adult fiction, thrillers & suspense
  • Crime
  • Thrillers, crime
  • Cold cases
  • Children's fiction

2 What to expect

A teen mystery: Pip reopens a closed murder case for a school project. The story is told through narration alongside her interview transcripts and case notes, and the twists come quickly.

Good for readers who want: a mystery, an amateur detective, and a story told partly in documents.

3 About Holly Jackson

Born 1992

Holly Jackson (born 6 December 1992) is a British author of mystery novels. She is best known for her A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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