Unlike a typical whodunnit, which opens with a fresh kill before following the investigating party as they trace the breadcrumbs to reveal who dealt the fatal hand, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder takes a slightly different approach. The six-part BBC series, which is based on Holly Jackson's hugely popular book of the same name, focuses on a case that was solved five years ago – or so the police and the people of the fictional town of Little Kilton believe. 15-year-old Andie Bell (India Lillie Davies) was supposedly murdered by her boyfriend Sal Singh (Rahul Pattni), who openly confessed to the crime before taking his own life.
But Pip Fitz-Amobi (Emma Myers), who was a few years younger than the victim and her executioner when it happened, firmly believes Sal is innocent – and that the real killer is still out there, which sparks an idea: the subject of her Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), which counts towards her A-Level results, will not be gothic literature, as she first proposed, but Andie Bell. With Sal's brother Ravi (Zain Iqbal) working alongside her as the Watson to her Holmes – although he would argue it's the other way around – she decides to unearth what really happened to the schoolgirl half a decade ago. It's a simple premise, but it's executed beautifully, in large part due to Dolly Wells's first-rate direction.
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