a good girl’s guide to murder – Cannonball Read 17

“When you catch someone lying about a murdered girl, you go ask them why”

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

February 14, 2023 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR15 Passport Challenge – New to me author Five years ago, blonde and beautiful high school girl Andie Bell was murdered, although no one ever found her body, despite careful searching. However, Andie’s boyfriend Sal Singh confessed in a text message to his dad and then committed suicide before he could be arrested by the police. So everyone knows that he did it, and the case is closed. Pippa Fitz-Amobi remembers Sal Singh as a kind and considerate young man, with a promising university career […]

This series is my jam. And now I want some actual jam.

Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2) by Holly Jackson

December 23, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Dudes, I read this so fast. Nobody says dudes anymore except for me. Sometimes I call my boss dude, just coz, and he’s like, Did you just call me dude? Anyhoodle, I read this book so fast, like super fast. There is something about this series that just gets to me. I love it. Even when it is not being the best objectively. I was so happy when I found out that this book was in large part going to be about consequences just like […]

Cannonballing with teenage murder detectives.

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1) by Holly Jackson

April 26, 2022 by narfna 14 Comments

I was so pleasantly surprised by this one. It was an excellent choice to be reading on my birthday* to make up for the fact that my body is slowly succumbing to the forces of entropy. *Which was now over a month ago, whoopsie. I’m wary with YA these days, especially contemporary YA, because I want a good story and good characters, not plot gimmicks and sensationalism, and books that are read by people like I used to be as a teenager (no discernment whatsoever). […]

Murder Investigation as a Capstone Project

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

August 5, 2020 by jomidi Leave a Comment

I always enjoy a good YA novel. In recent years, I have read some really fun Young Adult mysteries. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson fits this genre. I first saw this title advertised in February as a Barnes and Noble YA book club selection. I tried to get it from my library back then, but it only became available when my library recently reopened. Pipa decides to do her high school capstone project about the murder five years earlier of high […]

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