But as Pip looks into the case, she realizes that the accused killer was coerced into a confession. Soon, they realized that her stalker was the DT Killer, a serial-killer who has supposedly already been caught and arrested. Her boyfriend, Ravi, did believe her, and he helped her investigate the stalker. She tried to go to the police, but they did not believe her. While looking for an appropriate case, though, Pip started receiving disturbing messages from a stalker. She felt like she could only heal if she solved a new case that did not have any ambiguity.

Instead of focusing on therapy and healing, she started abusing Xanax purchased from a drug-dealer.

In Part One, Pip was dealing with the emotional trauma she underwent in the previous novel. Pip had tracked down Jamie and was inches away from solving the case, but then Charlie surprised her by showing up and shooting Stanley in front of her. Stanley had lured Charlie’s younger sister away, and Charlie had spent his entire life hunting down Stanley. Stanley’s father was a serial killer who forced young Stanley to help him abduct children to brutally murder. She investigated his disappearance and discovered that Jamie had been caught between a decades-old chase between Charlie Green and Stanley Forbes. But then her friend Jamie Reynolds went missing. Elliot Ward, meanwhile, thought that he would get blamed for Andie’s disappearance, so he killed her boyfriend and dreamed him.Īfter all this came to light in Pip’s podcast, she wanted to get back to normal life in the second book in the series. Terrified, she had buried her sister’s body and kept quiet. Andie passed out and threw up, and Becca was so shocked she did not do anything to help. One night, she got into a fight with Elliot and got a concussion, then went home and got into a fight with her sister, who had been drugged and raped by Max Hastings, who had bought Rohypnol from Andie. Pip discovered that Andie Bell had been dating her history teacher, Elliot Ward, in secret, and she was also secretly selling drugs. In the first novel, Pip investigated the death of Andie Bell, which had been blamed on her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who had apparently killed himself and left a confession note. The novel is broken up into two distinct parts and an epilogue. The novel is narrated in third-person past by a narrator that sticks to the perspective of the protagonist, Pip, although some chapters incorporate epistolary documents at the end. The novel is the last in the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Jackson, Holly.

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