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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

March 1, 2021 by Siskel101 Leave a Comment

As somone who grew up reading Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie, I love a good mystery. If I had it to do again, I would definitely have chosen the audiobook for this since it has such strong Serial podcast vibes. In Fairview a beautiful and popular senior, Andie Bell, was murdered five years ago by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. The tragedy has haunted this small town and the people who knew the families involved. Now five years later, 17 year old Pip […]

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

February 1, 2021 by Halbs 5 Comments

I’m not sneaking up on anybody by reading and reviewing Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. It was definitely one of the most talked-about books of 2020, it’s going to be a series, and it even made Goodreads’ Best of YA fiction finalist list. Even with all of the accolades it was one I missed – you just can’t get to everything, after all. Luckily for me, my wife short-listed this as one of my must-reads for 2021. (I’ve got five or six […]

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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