A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
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. Someone in Fairview doesn't want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger.
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Five years after a small town's most infamous murder case was closed, a high schooler reopens it for a class project and finds the official story does not quite add up.
Holly Jackson has written three main books in the series: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Good Girl, Bad Blood, and As Good as Dead. There is also a short story collection and a Christmas-themed novella.
Yes. BBC and Netflix released a six-episode adaptation of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder in 2024, starring Emma Myers as Pip Fitz-Amobi. The show condenses the novel and changes some plot details.
Yes. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is YA mystery aimed at readers 14 and up. It includes mentions of drugs, sexual assault, and violence appropriate to its true-crime style, but no explicit content.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder was written by Holly Jackson, published in 2019 by One.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is 432 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is a standalone novel by Holly Jackson, not part of a series.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
