goodreads | A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Title: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Author: Holly Jackson
Genre: YA suspense
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 433
Date read: September, 2022

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?

I liked it a lot, and found it really difficult to put down, but...

Oh my GOODNESS Pippa did not think things through! She's crazy lucky things didn't go far worse than they did. I kinda understand her not going to the police earlier, but not mentioning anything to her parents? To Ravi? It's at times like that I really feel that I'm far older than the target audience :-P

That aside, I did really enjoy it. It had much the same atmosphere as "One of Us is Lying", and even if I did perhaps think things came to Pippa a bit too easily, I enjoyed following her thought processes and seeing all the clues come together the same time as she did. I also really enjoyed the writing style - the mix between transcripts / journal entries and 3rd person narrative.