Title: Kill Joy
Author: Holly Jackson
ISBN: 978 0 7555 0169 4
Publisher: Eletric Monkey
Pages: 120
Source: Private copy
Pippa Fitz-Amobi is not in the mood for her friend’s murder mystery party. Especially one that involves 1920s fancy dress and pretending that their town, Little Kilton, is an island called Joy. But when the game begins, Pip finds herself drawn into the make-believe world of intrigue, deception and murder.
But as Pip plays detective, teasing out the identity of the killer clue-by-clue, the murder of the fictional Reginald Remy isn’t the only case on her mind …
Find out where it all began for Pip in this prequel to the best-selling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder and Good Girl, Bad Blood.
Official Summary
03 January 2024
This book is the prequel to ‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.’ It is one of my all-time favourite book series and I finished it earlier this year. I have been meaning to get to this book and with the year coming to an end and Good Reads challenges that need to be completed I picked this book up.
I loved the format of this book, it follows Pip who has been invited to a murder mystery party and she discovers her love for solving mysteries. This takes place before A Good Girls Guide to Murder. I loved all the breadcrumbs we got of what’s to come throughout the book. I also liked getting to see Pip before everything happened. I loved the fact that there was character growth throughout the series and that is very obvious if you go from As Good as Dead Pip, to this Kill Joy Pip.
I will say I did have a hard time keeping up with who is who, purely just because it has been a while since I have read this series. Pip’s friends also didn’t all play that big of a role in the original trilogy.
Overall if there is one thing Holly Jackson can do it is write a mystery that keeps you guessing. I read this book in one sitting and I could not recommend it more to fans of the original trilogy.
Also by Holy Jackson
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.
But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?
Holly Jackson was born in 1992. She grew up in Buckinghamshire and started writing stories from a young age, completing her first (poor) attempt at a book at age fifteen.
‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ is a YA Mystery Thriller and her debut novel. She lives in London and aside from reading and writing, she enjoys binge-playing video games and pointing out grammatical errors in street signs
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