Kill Joy

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is a crime thriller series for young adults written by British author Holly Jackson. The series contains three main novels, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Good Girl, Bad Blood, and As Good as Dead, and one prequel novella, Kill Joy. The series has also been adapted for Netflix with a premiere in the United States on August 1, 2024.

The first full installment in the series follows Pip as she re-investigates the murder of her former classmate, Andie Bell, who was murdered five years before. The entire town of Fairview, Connecticut, believes that Andie’s boyfriend, Sal Singh, is responsible for her death, but Sal took his truth with him to his grave since he apparently died by suicide a few days after the murder. The second and third novels in the series follow Pip after she has unraveled the many mysteries associated with Andie’s murder. Pip must learn to cope with not only the fallouts of these secrets but also the national attention she has garnered with her now-viral podcast, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.

The series features recognizable technology usage, with Pip often using Instagram and text messages as tools in her investigations, and it pays homage to the popularity of the true crime