A Good Girl's Guide To Murder By Holly Jackson

Attempting to uncover secrets and solve a large murder case. In Holly Jackson’s book, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, 5 years ago a popular girl named Andrea “Andie” Bell disappeared and her boyfriend Sal is accused of murdering her and hiding the body. Then after disposing of the body, Sal is said to have committed suicide. Everyone in the town of Little Kilton has a strong belief that Sal is guilty, except Pip. Pippa “Pip” Fitz-Amobi is a high school senior that starts a senior project. In this project, Pip attempts to prove Salil “Sal” Singh’s innocence alongside Sal’s younger brother Ravi Singh. She tries to get more information about Sal and Andie through people interconnected with their lives. Pip interviews these people and makes many

Andie is trying to discover more about the Bell family to understand more about Andie. Pip contacts Becca’s old friend, Jess Walker, to get more information. Jess uncovers to Pip that Jason Bell (Andie’s dad) spoke to the Bell women weirdly. Jess mentions that Jason will take “...little digs about how they looked and stuff.”, and will emphasize his daughters’ insecurities and make light of them. Alongside messing with his daughter’s self-confidence, Jess uncovers that Jason makes the girls compete. Jason will praise one daughter for an accomplishment and “...use it to put the other one down.” (116). Jason impacted his daughters that affected them deeply, especially the younger daughter Becca. Pip attempts to uncover how Andie was in her family and uncovers many truths about Becca. In Pip’s initial interview with Emma, Pip uncovers that Becca was hospitalized for self-harm weeks before Andie disappeared. Pip continues to uncover the truth about Andie’s family and interviews Becca’s old friend Jess. Pip uncovers from Jess that when Jess and Becca went to a calamity party and the next day Becca took a morning-after pill, insinuating that she had sex (117). Pip continues with the investigation and uncovers the truth about who Becca had sex with at the calamity. Pip calls Max and uncovers that at the party Max drugged and raped Becca Bell with the drugs he bought from Andie (302). Pip

Ward. Pip suspects that Naomi is threatening her and telling her to stop her investigation with printed notes. In order to debunk her theory, Pip used the Ward family computer and save printed documents. She did this so that if another note was printed, it would be saved. After she uncovers that Becca is the person behind Andie’s death, Pip continues to uncover the truth about Sal. Pip goes back to the Ward house to confirm if her theory was correct but exposes that Elliot Ward was the person making the notes (263). Pip tracks Mr. Ward using her phone to the house where the Ward family used to live. Pip knocks on the door and demands that Elliot uncover the truth about Sal’s death. Pip uncovers from Mr. Ward that he was the secret man Andie was seeing and they were having a sexual relationship. When Ward tried to end the relationship, Andie started to threaten him with exposure if he did not comply (284). Andie started to destroy everything and Elliot pushed her to stop and she hit her head. Andie ended up leaving the house with her injury and went missing. Elliot believed he killed Andie, so started to prepare to frame Sal for it. Ward used the car crash, which he discovered in Naomi’s diaries, to blackmail Sal’s friends to lie about the alibi. Pip uncovers that Elliot planned to kill Sal and forge his confession to Andie’s murder. Mr. Ward took Sal to the woods and put a knife to his throat and forced