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A review by readingwitherin
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
5.0
Trigger Warnings: Murder, suicide, rape (in the past), kidnapping, drugs, and animal death.
Suggestion for reading. I do think a physical copy of this could work better because of the journal entries and reports that are sprinkled throughout the book every few chapters. They could get a little confusing on an audiobook or on kindle where you cant see the change as well.
This book was fun, which is weird to say when it comes to talking about a book that deals with solving a murder.
Pippa for her high school senior project wants to solve a murder that hasn't put a dark cloud over the town. She takes the whole matter into her own hands and gets into contact with the media and requests police documents, and even starts interviewing people who were close to the victims. That is how she got close to Sal who is one of the victim's brothers and wants to get the truth as well. These two work together and are able to over time are able to piece together what could have happened to them together and are able to possibly solve the murder.
Overall I loved this book! I am so glad I finally picked this one up and started reading it. Pippa is such a great character and might just be one of my favorite ones in young adult reads at this moment. She is resourceful but also real with how she mentions how stressed out she is and why this case and actually solving it matter so much to her.
Sal is also such a good character because we see how much his brother dying affected his entire family and how it made the whole town look at them. It's one where we get to see Sal's potential shine and what he could have done if his brother hadn't died.
Sal and Pippa as a team were so good. Sal knew things that Pippa didn't and Pippa had the ability to take risks that Sal wasn't able to and got people to talk to her.
While at times things went off the rails a little bit and got dangerous they were still there for one another and were able to tell when something was wrong.
I thought for the majority of the book I had the killer right in this one. But boy was I wrong. It ended up being someone I had never really suspected at all and, I love when that happens in books! I can't wait to read the second one in this series and see what happens next.
Suggestion for reading. I do think a physical copy of this could work better because of the journal entries and reports that are sprinkled throughout the book every few chapters. They could get a little confusing on an audiobook or on kindle where you cant see the change as well.
This book was fun, which is weird to say when it comes to talking about a book that deals with solving a murder.
Pippa for her high school senior project wants to solve a murder that hasn't put a dark cloud over the town. She takes the whole matter into her own hands and gets into contact with the media and requests police documents, and even starts interviewing people who were close to the victims. That is how she got close to Sal who is one of the victim's brothers and wants to get the truth as well. These two work together and are able to over time are able to piece together what could have happened to them together and are able to possibly solve the murder.
Overall I loved this book! I am so glad I finally picked this one up and started reading it. Pippa is such a great character and might just be one of my favorite ones in young adult reads at this moment. She is resourceful but also real with how she mentions how stressed out she is and why this case and actually solving it matter so much to her.
Sal is also such a good character because we see how much his brother dying affected his entire family and how it made the whole town look at them. It's one where we get to see Sal's potential shine and what he could have done if his brother hadn't died.
Sal and Pippa as a team were so good. Sal knew things that Pippa didn't and Pippa had the ability to take risks that Sal wasn't able to and got people to talk to her.
While at times things went off the rails a little bit and got dangerous they were still there for one another and were able to tell when something was wrong.
I thought for the majority of the book I had the killer right in this one. But boy was I wrong. It ended up being someone I had never really suspected at all and, I love when that happens in books! I can't wait to read the second one in this series and see what happens next.