Good Girl, Bad Blood is the second book in a trilogy and a followup to A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, which I listened to a few months ago (you’ll find it if you scroll back through my photos). In the first book, Pip starts a podcast to investigate a hometown murder with an outcome she believed was incorrect. In this book, she launches season 2 of her podcast, which investigates the disappearance of her friend Connor’s brother, Jamie. I wouldn’t recommend reading this one without reading the first one first. 

It took me a little longer to get into this one but I did end up enjoying it. I like these as audiobooks because they’re read by a cast instead of only a single person. The end of this book was really well done, largely because, after two books, I’m really emotionally invested in Pip and her well-being. For that reason, the denouement here was much more impactful for me and I was still mentally stuck inside the end of the book hours after I finished it. 

If you’re looking for highbrow literature, this isn’t it. There are plenty of things that don’t make sense if you scratch the surface (could you really launch a podcast about an ongoing investigation and reveal potential evidence, for example?). But if you can suspend some belief and you’re looking for a mystery with some twists and turns, these are good for that — especially if you love true crime podcasts. 3.5/5.