5 years ago Andie Bell was killed and her murderer took his own life - the case is closed. But 17 years old Pippa Fitz-Amobi starts investigating by herself for a “school project”, feeling that something isn’t right - that the murderer, Sal, was innocent. Can she find out what really happened? Or did Sal really commit this awful crime? I love murder mysteries. When they take place in small towns like in this book AND have interesting characters, I am sold. This was such a fun read, the main character was so clever and I adore her name. The other characters in the book were also well written and it was intriguing to find out the truth together with Pippa and Ravi. This being her debut novel, the author did a fantastic job. Even though its a young adult thriller, I was still very much invested and will definitely check out the other books in the series. For fans of (the first 2 seasons of) Riverdale , Gone Girl and One Of Us Is Lying

Was für ein Buch! Ich bin absolut begeistert davon und hatte so viel Spass daran, es gemeinsam mit dem Buchclub zu lesen und dabei zusammen zu rätseln. Der Schreibstil hat mir sehr gut gefallen und die Charaktere waren allesamt so genial ausgearbeitet. Vor allem die zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen fand ich super dargestellt und hab Pippa’s Familie und ihre Freunde direkt ins Herz geschlossen. Das Ende war mind-blowing - auch wenn ein Teil davon vielleicht nicht ganz so unvermittelt und überraschend war, bzw. wo ich den Hintergrund etwas weniger dramatisch fand. Dennoch war es ein wirklich tolles Buch und ich kann an dieser Stelle eigentlich nur sagen, dass ich soo so froh bin, dass ich direkt weiterlesen kann. Good Girl, Bad Blood (Band 2) ist bei mir glücklicherweise bereits angekommen.

APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE! One of the quickest, one of the best crazy roller coaster experiences I had as soon as I took this book into my hands. Still shaky, blubbering (I already requested a translator to communicate properly), nail-less, confused, dizzy but also smiling and happy! GAVE MY FIVE FULL MYSTERIOUS SHINING STARS! GREAT STORY TELLING, ATTENTION TAKER PLOT, FANTASTIC CHARACTERIZATION, FAST AND HEART THROBBING PACING AND GREAT-SATISFYING ENDING! We have an amazing heroine, Pippa (don’t confuse her with longstocking) Fitz-Amobi loves to search, pry, dig into, talented, smart, nerdy, funny, social, friendly, brave, stands between Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars, older version of Harriet Walsh, with her technical skills, tattoo-less and leather-less, chain-less version of Lisbeth Salander and a younger version Molder-less and alien nation-less version of Dana Scully! Blurb is tempting, amazing, intriguing makes you dive in, clasp the book into your fingers and never let it go as I did. My dog is jealous of the book by barking to the moon to protest me. But I resumed my reading because it was gripping, hooking you from the first page kind of book. Five years ago, Andie Bell got missing and presumed dead by Sal Singh who committed suicide and sent a text message confessing his crime before he’d killed himself. But Andie’s body had never been found. The case is close! But Pippa is determined to open it by starting her own investigation process to write her school project and she firstly knocked Sal’s family door to ask an interview with his 20 years old brother Ravi who naturally becomes partners in crime with her and their project which turns out the mission for proving Sal’s innocence and finding who might have killed Andie! As they start to dig more, the person of interest list of Pippa becomes longer, includes Pippa’s best friend’s sister. There are too many questions screaming inside your head: Who really killed Andie? Or Andie is really dead? Did she deserve her ending? Because as soon as we learn more about her, we discover she is a bully, drama queen, drug dealer, blackmailer! Her amazing attributes gave me itchy fists to punch her. (It’s strange because I never wanted to kick presumed dead person or I’m not sure she is dead person! Well, that’s a first because this character is living, breathing -or not- scumbag!) Who put the blame on Sal? Or Sal really did it? Well, he’s portrait of nice, humble, angelic guy made me call him Castiel as like Supernatural’s angel character. But we can sense he has been hiding something. His friends changed their testimonies about his where beings and his leaving time from their place and rejected to be his alibis. So where was he at the murder time? Who was sending threatening messages to Pippa to stop her digging? Well, I made one of my fastest reads and my spider sense didn’t work properly to find the killer or killers till the last pages. The author was always ten steps ahead of me! I’m so blessed to be beaten by her smart writing. I had great time to visualize this as a great YA mystery movie or limited Netflix series! (Anything could be better to replace the third season of 13 reasons why which could be named as 13 reasons of list why the hell did you shoot the third season!!!) It was moving, enjoyable, nail biter, mind bending, surprisingly exciting, satisfying read. I enjoyed every page, every clue, every thrilling moments of this book. I highly recommend it!

This was the second time I read the book. The first time I read A Good Girl’s Guide to Muder was before it got so super popular on TikTok. It truly is a great mystery novel and I enjoyed every page. Definitely a TikTok-book I recommend!

I’ve picked this book up in 2020 and read it then for the first time. I’ve heard about it first (at least I think so) from a booktuber, but I can’t remember which one it was. The first time, I’ve read it in one or two days. At that time, I wasn’t a fan of mystery and crime, but I really enjoyed this one. One year later and I read it again, because I was getting ready to read the sequels and I still loved it. The story is about a girl from a small town whose senior project is about a murder that happened 5 years ago. Apparently, a really bright young student kidnapped and killed his girlfriend. They were known to always fight and break up, so the police thought that he did it in a fight. Two days later, they found his body in the woods, apparently an overdose. And his girlfriend was never found. Now, five years later, the maincharacter, Pippa, tries to uncover what happened, because she was never convinced, that the boyfriend did it. And she gets his younger brother to help her with the case. After that, the plot really starts to pick up and tbh, the ending surprised me, because I did not see it coming. The book is written in a mixture of interviews and normal storytelling, which I really enjoy, because it feels like a podcast. I really recommend it, especially if you haven’t read mystery before.