Synopsis

The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?

Review

“I’m not sure I’m the good girl i once thought I was . I’ve lost her along the way”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

4,5 stars and book club read

I should have read this one in one month to match the pace of the ladies at the book club instead…I read it in one sitting!

That book is really one that is easy to read, entertaining, intriguing, smart and with loving and relatable characters.

Pippa is a smart and a tough cookie. She is convinced that Sal never murdered Andie Bell, whose body was never found.

Under the pretense of a school project she will try to solve that mystery and rehabilitate Sal’s name.

In her quest, she’ll ally with Ravi, Sal’s brother who is certain his brother was never guilty. Collecting clues, interviewing people she will discover that everyone had dark secrets. The truth is revealed on a breathtaking climax and left me really surprise as I had guessed …only the half of it!

I don’t want to tell too much in this review as this is a mystery but here are the things I loved that made this book so brilliant:

–I love Pippa’s family dynamic, her dad Victor and his playful way.

-I love the log entries, the mixed media and the methodical approach of her research.

Pippa was very thorough and could read between the lines and add two and two. She makes a perfect investigator.

-I love her friends and their dynamic too. The broken heart rescue scene in the beginning sets the tone to this friendship. The one she’ll built with Ravi too!

-I love the humor.and Pip’s sharp mind.

-I really liked that the author showed what a family goes through when one of their relatives is thought to be a criminal. We never speak of it when we see criminals in the news.

-I also really loved that nothing and no one was as it seems. The author rocked the trope of hidden secrets and unglamorous past.

This was my first book by this author and won’t be my last! I already bought Good Girl, Bad Blood and plan on reading it this month or the next!

Have you read that book?

Thanks for reading!

Sophie