A Good Girl's Guide To Murder

A Good Girl's Guide To Murder

YA mystery/thriller
"Their home was like the town's own haunted house; people's
footsteps quickened as they walked by, and their words strangled and
died in their throats. Shrieking children would gather on their walk
home from school, daring one another to run up and touch the front
porch.
But it wasn't haunted by ghosts, just three sad people trying to
live their lives as before. A house not haunted by flickering lights
or spectral falling chairs, but by dark spray-painted letters of 'Scum
Family' and stone shattered windows."
Pippa, protagonist of Holly Jackson's A Good Girl's Guide To
Murder, has chosen a very unusual high school capstone project. Five
years earlier a beautiful, popular high school girl, Andie, went
missing. Her boyfriend, Sal Singh, from a brown family in a very
white town, was the only suspect despite having an alibi. A couple of
days later Sal was found dead in the woods, apparently by suicide.
Pippa believes that the police, aided and abetted by a prejudicial
press, closed the case too quickly. She wants to prove Sal's innocence.
Pippa, aided by Ravi, Sal's younger brother, begins to interview
people with possible insider knowledge. It's very fruitful. It turns
out that Andie was not as good as her image suggested. There are
plenty of people who had motive and opportunity. The challenge seems
to be finding out which of them committed the homicide. Or maybe if
it happened. Andie's body was never found.
But while Pippa investigates someone is watching her--someone
who does not want her to learn the truth and is willing to go to great
lengths to keep this from happening. A series of threatening notes
leaves her wondering if her quest is putting her family and Ravi's in
danger.
If you enjoy suspenseful narratives full of unexpected twists
and turns you can't do better than A Good Girl's Guide To Murder.
On a purrrsonal note, the sky is clearing up after a couple of rainy
days. We did need the rain. We're in a drought. The meteorologists
are predicting two bright sunny days. Other than homework I have no
idea how I'll spend my weekend. I hope you have a great one. (Jules)
Weekends are made for quality time with the hoomans you love. (Tobago)
A great big shout out goes out to you, our readers.
Tobago and Jules Hathaway


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