This book has a completely different tone to it thanks to the outcomes of the first two books. I did struggle with the direction of As Good As Dead (#3) however. This series had enough red herrings along the way to keep you guessing but the solutions were always within reason.Īt times, I feel like Books #1 & #2 wane a little bit in the middle but I had such a blast listening to the audiobooks (thanks to the different mediums the information is delivered in) I didn’t notice all that much. I took a detective fiction course in university so I really judge mystery novels hard because I’ve studied the bones of the genre. The key to any good mystery is making it not too obvious but still making it within the realm of possibility. It just gives this great suspense to the story. You almost feel like you are building the case yourself as all these pieces of evidence come in. I’ve only read a few novels that use this approach of documents– The Illuminae Files being the most notable for me–but it works so well with a mystery novel. I really loved how this series was formatted! It’s a blend of notes, interviews and reports from Pip’s projects interspersed with a narrated story.

And while I don’t listen to podcasts, they seem to be all the rage–especially true crime–so I was interested to see how it would all play out.

I love a good murder mystery and we don’t often encounter them a lot in the YA genre (I suppose that’s a good thing) so that always catches my attention. I had noticed it as an audiobook addition at my library and once I read the synopsis, I immediately put a hold on it. I think it was the title that drew me into reading the synopsis for this book. Source & Format: Public Library–Audiobook Publication Dates: May 2019 – September 2021 Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Mystery, Thriller, Crime There is a prequel novella called: Kill Joy And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?

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. Everyone in town knows he did it.īut having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. Synopsis for A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (from Goodreads): Series Review: Is this series worth your time? Does it get better as the novels progress? Or does it get worse? Find out below:

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