Book Review: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

But sometimes remembering isn’t for yourself, sometimes you do it just to make someone else smile. Those lies were allowed.

- Holly Jackson, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

The first book of crime thriller trilogy of Good Girl Series “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” is the story of Pippa Fitz-Amboni and her journey towards the buried truth of her home town Little Kilton. Pip, A- list student chooses a 5 year old closed murder case as her Extended Project Qualification (EPQ).

Andie Bell was disappeared five years ago, and the evidence pointed against her boyfriend Sal Singh, that he had abducted and killed her. Later on, Sal was found death by suicide in the woods and hence the case was closed concluding Sal as a killer.

But was he?

Pip starts her own investigation and discovers numerous hidden secrets and in this journey of finding truth, her life gets effected in many ways and with someone trying to stop her from reaching to truth. Will she succumb into their “not letting her to find truth” strategy?

This novel doesn’t revolve only around Pip finding out the truth, but also shows the dark side of our society that we as humans tend to make judgements whatever we see without getting into the matter deeply, whatever we are being told and how racism still prevails in the society effecting our whole belief system.