So, “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” is the debut novel by
Holly Jackson. She has written quite a few more books after this one and I do
hope I stumble upon them, and they are as good as well. Coming to our Good Girls
Guide to Murder, written in third person, this is a murder mystery of a schoolgirl
called Andie Bell who was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend Sal Singh. Everyone
in the small town knows it and the case is closed and all. But as we would have
it, our hero Pippa Fitz-Amboi, somehow has her
own doubts over the story and picks it up as her school project. Then of course,
things happen, stories unfold, secrets reveal, lot of other things happen. No!
No way I am giving out any spoilers here.
What’s that I loved so much about this book?
Okay, so I have been struggling very hard to find some good
books which could make me read more books for a really long time. I did read some
good books this year eventually, but this was game changer. I am now craving to
read more, and I hope that the next book I pick does not dump me back to my slump.
A murder mystery well written which at-least I was not able
to predict at any given page or even line until the author wanted me to. The
must have thing about thrillers and mysteries is they must be non-predictable.
I mean, there are of course some things as a reader that things to our mind
while reading such books, but the author took care of all of them quite
cleverly. It was definitely a page turner, nail biter (all the stuff) - one
which can bring to sleep deprived dark circles for a day or two. Then comes the
characters. Do I have a favorite character? Ummm – not really, but all the characters
had their required sufficient details. The language as we already said is third
person, was quite a breeze to read through. There were a lot of things which a
young adult reader will be able to relate to as well.
There was particularly one instance in the story which I
will not talk about made me wipe my tears and put the book down for 5-10
minutes – yes, I do cry while reading….
