A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder • Book 1
by Holly Jackson
Narrated by Bailey Carr, Marisa Calin, Michael Crouch, Gopal Divan, Robert Fass, Kevin R. Free, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Carol Monda, Patricia Santomasso, Shezi Sardar, Amanda Thickpenny, Various
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Twelve narrators make this feel less like an audiobook and more like a true crime podcast where you slowly realize the town has been lying.
- Great if you want: a clever cold-case mystery driven by a relentless teenage sleuth
- Listening experience: propulsive and documentary-style; the case builds with real momentum
- Narration: full cast of 12 gives each suspect and witness a distinct, believable voice
- Skip if: YA sensibilities in a thriller setting will frustrate you
About This Audiobook
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is set in a small English town five years after schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered and her boyfriend Sal Singh was named guilty. Pip Fitz-Amobi, researching the case as a school project, becomes convinced the verdict was wrong and begins pulling on threads that someone in the community is determined to keep unraveled. Holly Jackson constructs the investigation as a genuinely procedural document, with Pip's notes and interviews building the case alongside the reader.
The full-cast production uses multiple narrators to reflect the documentary format, with Bailey Carr anchoring Pip's perspective alongside a roster of voices for interviews and secondary characters. The approach suits the novel's structure remarkably well and transforms what could be a gimmick into a genuine asset, making the evidence feel discovered rather than simply described.
