In Holly Jackson’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder starring Emma Meyers on BBC, everyone has secrets. However, when these secrets start gnawing at the people they supposedly hold closest to their hearts, will they still want to keep them? When these secrets become the seeds of something sinister that alters the truth of what could have been the dividing line between someone’s life and death, will their sacred privacy still matter?
If losing the right to their secrets is what determines whether justice could be served or not, will they still hold on to them? Will they own up to their mistakes or leave others suffering forever in the shadow of their sins?
Synopsis
For her capstone senior project, Pip Fitz-Amobi decides to open an old book that was never quite closed for her. She revisits a missing case of a girl who lived in her city. Five years ago, a mysterious incident stole Andie Bell, the high school sweetheart, from her life, family, and friends. It also took the life of Sal Singh, Andie’s boyfriend.
Sal committed suicide after Andie went missing, which immediately framed him as the main suspect. Everyone believed him to be the murderer although Andie’s body was never found, but who cares about these trivial details anyway? Well, Pip does.
Pip believes Sal is not the monster her city portrayed him to be. She knew him to be a different person, and she decided to trust her instinct. But if he didn’t do it, then who did? Why did he take his life? And where is Andie? All these questions pushed Pip to conduct interviews with different people who were in the circle of both Andie and Sal. She starts with Ravi, Sal’s brother, who ends up becoming her investigation partner.
Through these interviews, she discovers a total opposite side to Andie, a criminal and evil one. Pip starts believing that Andie’s suspicious under-the-radar life got her entangled with the wrong people and eventually costs her life. Sal was nothing but a scapegoat for whoever did that to her.
Unraveling one secret after the other leads Pip to see the truth of the people in her city, how intrinsically evil and corrupted they are. Her investigation makes her a lot of enemies who start threatening her as she gets closer to revealing the truth. But how far are they willing to go to bury the truth before it buries them?
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder: The TV Show
The book was adapted into a series, commissioned by BBC and produced by Moonage Pictures in co-production with ZDFneo and Netflix. BBC released the trailer earlier this week and announced that the full series will be available on BBC iPlayer on the upcoming July 1st. Additionally, the six-episode project will be airing on BBC Three and is planned to be added to Netflix’s collection later this year.
From her Werewolf role as Enid, the total polar opposite of Wednesday Adams’ dark aesthetic in Netflix’s hit Wednesday to being CC Walker, to a young soccer star who suddenly finds herself stuck in her mother’s body in the holiday comedy film Family Switch, Emma Myers is moving to being the main lead as Pip Fitz-Amobie.
Emma’s range is astounding, and her ability to show different colors as an actress made the novel’s fans very excited to see her bring their favorite character to life. “She is phenomenal, and this role was truly always meant to be hers,” Holly Jackson shared on Instagram. Additionally, newcomer Zain Iqbal will play Sal’s brother Ravi Singh, India Lillie Davies will play Andie Bell, and Rahul Pattni will play Sal Singh.
Conclusion
As for the production team, the book was adapted by Poppy Cogan and produced by Florence Walker. Also, Matthew Read, Matthew Bouch and Frith Tiplady for Moonage Pictures, Lucy Richer and Danielle Scott-Haughton for the BBC, and Dolly Wells, Holly Jackson, and Poppy Cogan as executive producers.
As Emma Myers promised, “Whether you’ve read the book or not, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is an experience all around. I think people are really going to like it.” It is a gripping thriller, it keeps you on your toes and pushes all your detective buttons at once. One plot twist after the other, keep one note while moving through this story, in this town, everyone is guilty even if proven innocent.
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