Friday, November 13, 2020

Five Star Friday - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

This week's Five Star read was read by Jay! 



Synopsis from Goodreads: The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.

But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?

Genre? Young Adult, Mystery, Thriller

Backlist? Yes. Published May 2, 2019.

New to me Author? Yes.

Why I rated it 5 stars? 
Honestly, I saw a little bit of myself in Pippa. She is in her senior year of high school and she's a bit of a perfectionist and an over-worker/over-thinker. She strives to be her best and she's working on an amazing senior capstone project. Little does she know, this project is about to take over her life in a big way. 

Pippa doesn't believe Sal really murdered Andie. But to the rest of the town, there's no way it WASN'T Sal. Pippa sets off on a journey to try to figure out if she can prove Sal's innocence. Another thing we have in common - I think that would be amazing. Pippa is a bit of a True Crime junkie and I'm a self-proclaimed Murderino. I was invested from the beginning. 

I honestly did not see what was coming at the end. Things twisted and turned more than I expected, but in such a good way. Holly Jackson ties up all the loose ends in a complex, though not outlandish way. I went into this book pretty blindly, but I loved it and now I'm looking forward to the next book in the series. 

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