Good Girl, Bad Blood

Good Girl, Bad Blood (2021) is the second novel in the three-part A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series of young adult crime fiction. The first book in the series, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (2020), became a multimillion-copy New York Times bestseller. It was also author Holly Jackson’s first book. Jackson is British, but she writes the series from the perspective of a native-born American teenager living in Connecticut. As a result, British colloquial speech occasionally crops up in the dialogue.

The series finale is entitled As Good as Dead (2021), and Jackson has completed a standalone thriller, Five Survive (2022). A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder was being adapted as a six-part series for BBC television to air in 2023. This study guide and all its page citations are based on the Kindle edition of the book.

The story is set in the small town of Fairview, Connecticut. All the action takes place during a two-month period in an unspecified contemporary year. It begins with the airing of a podcast episode on March 27, proceeds through a missing persons case that begins on April 24, and ends in the third week of May.