Travel along with Pippa Fitz Amobi, 17 years of age, struggling to balance between a teenage life and an acclaimed murder detective(& podcaster of the super hit series 'a good girl's guide to murder') in the small town of Buckinghamshire in Fairview, Connecticut. Little did she know that her life would N E V E R ★ B E ★ T H E ★ S A M E
Synposis
When you ask people what happened to Andie Bell, they'll tell you without hesitation:
"She was murdered by Salil Singh"
No "allegedly,"
no "might have,"
no "probably,"
no "most likely."
He did it, they say. Sal killed Andie.
But I'm not so sure.
FIVE YEARS AGO:
Andie was murdered. Sal, her boyfriend admitted murder and committed suicide.
NOW(2019):
Pippa is doing a school project, her senior capston project, in which she chooses to investigate the murder of Andie Bell, the first daughter of a very happy family, or so it seems. When Andie was murdered everyone blamed and believed that the murderer was her boyfriend, Salil Singh, such says the small town of Fairview and the closed case's case report. Sal infact was murdered & wronged, and as of the end of the book, Pip's selfless sacrifices had brought him and his family the justic and closure they deserved. This novel raises several themes that are creatively interwoven into the story including LTBTQ, public shame, drug abuse, underage drinking, the importance of consent, identity and the danger and deception involved in discovering the truth of matter.
"The book utilizes the stylistic tool of investigative journalism to help Pip get to the bottom of what actually happened to Andie Bell and Sal Singh."
Kavya Karthik - Murder Board - Original Editing Done on Photoshop
Pip also unfurls various dark and shady truths about Andie Bell. She was in fact not Fairview's golden girl. She cheated on her boyfriend, dealed drugs at house parties and bullied a girl named Nat da Silva into dropping out of school.
The book includes periodic capstone log entries that Pip uses to keep track of information relating to the case. Thus exploring creatively exploring a variety of literary styles of writing albeit writing a first person point of view novel.
This book is the first fo 3 installments, where Pip plays detectives and as far as she gets from Andie's story, the more connections she is able to draw to her own life.
About the Author:
Holly Jackson was born in 1992 in Buckingham, England.
She graduated with a first class degree in literary linguistics and creative writing.
After that she graduated with a master's degree in English.
Completed her first attempt to write a book at age fifteen.
'A Good Girl's Guide to Murder' is her debut novel.
Her most recent works are on YA Mystery.
She loves to watch true crime documentaries where she can pretend to play detective.
