Book Review: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson- ‘A Thrilling Murder/Mystery Book’

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‘A Good Girl’s Guide to murder’ the name in itself is so intriguing that you cannot help but pick up the book and read it. There are so many layers of secrets in this book that it is hard to put them down. Everything about this story from the way the plot develops to the way the personality of the character develops is brilliant.

Introduction

Book name - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 

Authors name - Holly Jackson

Language - English

Genre - thriller, mystery, fiction, young adult

Synopsis - Non-Spoiler Alert! 

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is a captivating and riveting book that will keep you on your toes all the time. This book is quite addicting as the only time you will be able to keep it down will be when you finish reading it. This story is from the point of view of Pippa ‘Pip’ Fitz-Amobi, a seventeen-year-old, straight-A student in her school. For her school project she pretends to investigate the media involvement in a case that happened five years ago but what she is doing is trying to find the murderer and not just the one the whole town believes to be, but the real murderer.

Five years ago, a school girl named Andrea ‘Andie’ Bell was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend Sal Singh who went on killing himself. This case is now closed and completely cold but Pip is not convinced by the verdict. She does not believe that it is Sal who murdered her and to prove that she starts her investigation and on this journey, she is not alone.

Ravi Singh, Sal’s brother helps Pip in her case because he does not believe that his brother was capable of killing someone. He tries to help her find what he was not able to do before. So Pip creates a list, a list of potential people who could murder Andrea Bell and it might not be as simple as she thought it would be. Secrets reveal themselves at a cost and not everybody is prepared to pay for them.

Will Pippa be able to achieve what the cops could not? Is Pippa prepared for the cost? Lots of unanswered questions and the only way to get the answers is to read this book.

About the Author

Holly Jackson (born 1992) is a British author of young adult novels. She is best known for her Good Girl's Guide to Murder series. Jackson grew up in Buckinghamshire, England, and wrote her first novel when she was 15 years old. Later, she attended the University of Nottingham, where she first studied literary linguistics and creative writing, graduating with a first-class degree, and then graduating with a master's degree in English. Jackson currently lives in London, England.

Personal Verdict

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is one of the best thrillers, and mystery books I have had the chance to read. The way Holly Jackson has written the characters feels so real that there is an instant connection that gets formed between the readers and the characters. The whole time I read this book kit felt like I was the one who was investigating the case along with them.

There is never a point in the book where you would be like ‘I knew it’ because that is how good this book is, you just never know. The suspects are never obvious, sometimes it is just so out of the blue that you never know what to think. The story has so many plot twists and so unbelievable suspects that it just keeps you hooked and for once I fell in love with this amazing novel.

Quotes

1. “He smiled, put his hands on the back of her neck, fingers in her hair, and leaned in to press his forehead against hers. He’d told her before that he did it to take away half her sadness, half her headache, half her nerves before her Columbia interview. Because half less of a bad thing meant there was room for half good.”

2. “What's wrong with me? ... I might seem like the ideal student: homework always in early, every extra credit and extracurricular I can get my hands on, the good girl and the high achiever. But I realized something just now: it's not ambition, not entirely. It's fear. Because I don't know who I am when I'm not working when I'm not focused on or consumed by a task. Who am I between the projects and the assignments, when there's nothing to do? I haven't found her yet and it scares me. Maybe that's why, for my senior capstone project this year, I decided to solve a murder.”

Bottom line:

For all the mystery lovers out there, this is a must-read novel. 

My ratings for the movie are 4 on 5.

You may buy this book from Amazon, The Good Girl's Guide to Murder: Book 1

Written by - Aayushi Kumari Singh