Book Review: Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #2) - Holly Jackson

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GoodReads Synopsis:

Pip Fitz-Amobi is not a detective anymore.

With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her.

But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared but the police won’t do anything about it. And if they won’t look for Jamie then Pip will, uncovering more of her town’s dark secrets along the way… and this time EVERYONE is listening.

But will she find him before it’s too late?

Review:

This book is so much like the first one in the way it reads! Which is both bad and good. The beginning it is a little hard to get into again and I’m not quite sure why, since I now know the characters from book one. But it took a while to connect with the story, which at first give me a real sense of disappointment. However, like the first book in the series, after that initial hump, I just couldn’t put it down. I burned through the last 2/3 in an evening. I’m not sure when it grabbed my interest but I went from being bored with it to a feeling of intrigue, wanting to know what was going to happen next.

I am happy to report that my unanswered questions from the first book were in fact answered in the second one. And that this mystery also kept me guessing for quite a bit of the book! Also, I quite like how text messages, transcripts of her interviews and case notes are all included. Reading the different points of view provided a amusing element to the story. Overall, it’s a fun little series.