I’m so behind on reviews, being in a reading mood means I’ve been finishing books faster than I can catch up with the previous reads reviews. On top of that things were happening in life as they usually do & I had to focus my attentions elsewhere. But we’re back to review! Let’s catch up!
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
- Category – YA Mystery Thriller
- Length – 433 Pages
- Read Time – 3 Days
- GR Rating – 4 Stars
This is book one of a 3 book series & I am definitely reading the rest. I really appreciate that there were multiple threads of deception happening at the same time, some intwining more than others. Some parts of the plot were predictable, to me, but in the end I was focused on the wrong suspect. Yes, I did assume guilt of the actual guilty party however not at the top of the list.
SPOILERS ALERT! THERE WILL BE SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!
Main character Pippa Fitz-Amobi is doing her senior final project on an unsolved crime that happened 5 years earlier in her town, Fairview CT. The central characters to the crime mystery, Salil “Sal” Singh & Andrea “Andie” Bell were both seniors at the time. The story begins with one confirmed dead, the other missing & presumably also dead. Pip decides to solve the mystery of Andie’s disappearance as her senior project in part because of her super-sleuthing passion but also because she knew the number 1 suspect, Sal, Andie’s high-school boyfriend.
As the story progresses we find out Andie was the “mean-girl” at school & in a lot of her personal relationships. Sal’s family still lives in town & Pip ends up teaming up with Sal’s younger brother Ravi, who also didn’t believe his brother was guilty, to solve the mystery. I will say Pip is a pretty good super-sleuth she was determined to get to the bottom of it! Turns out Andie was much more than just a “mean-girl” & suspects abound! While trying to solve the disappearance & possible murder of Andie, Pip discovers that Sal’s group of friends we’re in a hit & run accident which left a man paraplegic! They end up lying about Sal’s whereabouts the night of Andie’s disappearance blackmailed with the hit & run to do so, telling police he was not with them most of the night they were all together having a friends-only house party, all night, another lie. Things escalate quite a bit throughout the story. Andie was also having inappropriate relations with an older mystery man (back to “mystery” man in a sec) which inevitably leads to more lies & deceptions to untangle in the mystery of her disappearance.
Pip receives threats to leave her investigation alone, at home, at school, she doesn’t & then her dog is stolen & she decides to listen to the dognapper & destroy her evidence, just as she’d uncovered proof of Sal’s innocence. She doesn’t end up getting her dog back & she was smart enough to keep evidence back up. However, she also decides to keep the hit & run secret & for that same reason won’t hand over the evidence she has to police. (WTF) That & a suspicious connection to the mystery disappearance within the police department. & because her need to know instinct wouldn’t let her leave it alone she ends up making a connection she’d missed before & solves it. Not really though, because it’s not her! If you’ve read the book already you know exactly what moment I’m talking about! If you haven’t read it yet, you will as soon as you get to it, I promise lol. Pip does solve the mystery of who-done-it & how-done-it, I won’t spoil that much.
I can’t wait to read the next 2 in this series, I have 3 books left in my current tbr stack before getting any new ones but they are on my list!
Thank you for joining me for another review, I’d love to read your thoughts on my review & of course on the book too.
- Have you read this book?
- What was your favorite part? (IT’S NOT HER! What?!?)
- What was your least favorite part? (Pip keeping the dognapping truth from Ravi. Why?)
- How many stars do you rate this book?
Hasta la próxima – V
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