Culture | TV Take one teenage girl. Add a soupçon of intrigue, a dash of danger and a violent murder to solve, and what you get is A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. That’s right, Holly Jackson’s beloved YA series is finally getting its big-screen adaptation in this fun, zippy BBC Three series.
The book was set in the US, but the BBC has moved the action to the UK, so the sleepy town of Fairview, Connecticut has become the sleepy town of Little Kilton somewhere in the bucolic British countryside. There, we meet the wonderfully named Pip Fitz-Amobi. She’s played by American actress Emma Myers – last seen in hit Netflix series Wednesday as the title character’s werewolf roommate Enid – with a passable English accent and a cheery grin.
Pip is entering her last year of school, but before she leaves for good, she first must research and put together a project on a topic of her choice. What better time, she thinks, to investigate the murder of Andie Bell? Five years ago, the teenager disappeared (her body was never found), while her boyfriend Sal confessed to her murder via text before taking his own life. Case closed? Pip isn’t convinced.
“I liked Sal,” she tells his younger brother Ravi (Zain Iqbal). “He was always nice to me.” And so begins the attempt to clear Sal’s name and find out who really dunnit, with Ravi along for the ride.
With that in mind, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder feels rather like Agatha Christie was put in a blender with Sex Education.
