As Good as Dead: The Finale to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES—A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER NOW ON NETFLIX! • The final book in the series that reads like your favorite true crime podcast or show. By the end, you'll never think of good girls the same way again...
Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?
Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars.
Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle . . .and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears. . .
Look for the whole series:
A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER • GOOD GIRL, BAD BLOOD • AS GOOD AS DEAD
Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?
Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars.
Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle . . .and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears. . .
Look for the whole series:
A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER • GOOD GIRL, BAD BLOOD • AS GOOD AS DEAD
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This was by far the best book in the series, just when you think you know what's going to happen, you're wrong.
I have to be honest in this review. I did rate it a four stars because it really did keep me wanting to continue and see what was going to happen. However, this is NOT how I wanted this trilogy to end. I kind of want Jackson to write a fourth one just to make up for this one and have a better ending to Pip's story. I absolutely loved the twists and turns of the first two and I really thought that this book was going to be the same. But then halfway through when the thing I thought the whole book would be about had already happened, I had no idea where Jackson was going with this. This book didn't seem as much of a mystery and thriller as the first two.
In this story, Pip is heading off to college but is haunted by how her last investigation ended. She is having nightmares and flashbacks, making it hard to even do daily tasks. When she gets more than one online threat on her true-crime podcast, she is truly rattled. This anonymous person is asking "Who will look for you when you're the one who disappears." She then begins seeing different signs that maybe someone is threatening her in real life as well and could be getting closer. She begins to investigate these signs and find that similar ones were found in the cases of 5 other murdered women. With this information, she believes that the wrong man is behind bars and the real killer is coming for her next.
Overall the book was interesting and did keep my interest but I think it went in a completely wrong direction given the phenomenal writing of the first two. The second half of this book isn't the mystery we are expecting. We know what is going to happen and we are just seeing how it unfolds, not as fun as going on the journey with Pip to solve a murder or case and seeing the unexpected along with her. I think this story could have used the same people and case but done so in a much better way in order to keep with the series and keep the character of Pip as we know her. My recommendation will be to read the first two and maybe not even pick this third one up - sorry Holly Jackson.
I have hid part of this due to spoilers
This is where the book did get interesting for me. When she figures out that someone from Jason Bell's company was the murderer, I thought that this was going to be her final investigation and she was going to finally catch the man who did all of this. When she was kidnapped and found out it was Jason Bell himself, I was floored. It all connected back. So many things were coming full circle (especially Andie's death) and I actually enjoyed the weaving in of different aspects. However, I thought that she would somehow escape and find a way to show the police just what he did and put him away for good. I did not see the murder coming.
Once this happened, I was like "okay, what's next?" Like how was this going to be a thriller if what I thought was an ending had already happened? There were aspects of the plan that were thrilling and could have gone wrong but the whole story line of covering this up and framing Max wasn't as thrilling as the twists, turns, and unexpectedness of the other two books. I was a little disappointed in that. And considering how Pip is the kind of person that wants to get the truth and have others know just what the truth is, having her frame someone for a murder she committed just seemed so out of character.
It was interesting how Pip came up with the plan and following that logic was interesting but so many parts of it seemed like they just wouldn't work. And then severing all ties with her family and friends until Max was convicted seems a little suspicious. I guess she could have said she wanted to immerse herself into the college environment but I would immediately be suspicious as one of the investigators. I also just don't feel like it truly ended from the last page. I would love to have a fourth book where she comes back to town for the summer or something and solves one more murder, allowing the TRUTH to be heard. Or even solving the case of Jane Doe at college like she said in the very beginning.
In this story, Pip is heading off to college but is haunted by how her last investigation ended. She is having nightmares and flashbacks, making it hard to even do daily tasks. When she gets more than one online threat on her true-crime podcast, she is truly rattled. This anonymous person is asking "Who will look for you when you're the one who disappears." She then begins seeing different signs that maybe someone is threatening her in real life as well and could be getting closer. She begins to investigate these signs and find that similar ones were found in the cases of 5 other murdered women. With this information, she believes that the wrong man is behind bars and the real killer is coming for her next.
Overall the book was interesting and did keep my interest but I think it went in a completely wrong direction given the phenomenal writing of the first two. The second half of this book isn't the mystery we are expecting. We know what is going to happen and we are just seeing how it unfolds, not as fun as going on the journey with Pip to solve a murder or case and seeing the unexpected along with her. I think this story could have used the same people and case but done so in a much better way in order to keep with the series and keep the character of Pip as we know her. My recommendation will be to read the first two and maybe not even pick this third one up - sorry Holly Jackson.
I have hid part of this due to spoilers
This is where the book did get interesting for me. When she figures out that someone from Jason Bell's company was the murderer, I thought that this was going to be her final investigation and she was going to finally catch the man who did all of this. When she was kidnapped and found out it was Jason Bell himself, I was floored. It all connected back. So many things were coming full circle (especially Andie's death) and I actually enjoyed the weaving in of different aspects. However, I thought that she would somehow escape and find a way to show the police just what he did and put him away for good. I did not see the murder coming.
Once this happened, I was like "okay, what's next?" Like how was this going to be a thriller if what I thought was an ending had already happened? There were aspects of the plan that were thrilling and could have gone wrong but the whole story line of covering this up and framing Max wasn't as thrilling as the twists, turns, and unexpectedness of the other two books. I was a little disappointed in that. And considering how Pip is the kind of person that wants to get the truth and have others know just what the truth is, having her frame someone for a murder she committed just seemed so out of character.
It was interesting how Pip came up with the plan and following that logic was interesting but so many parts of it seemed like they just wouldn't work. And then severing all ties with her family and friends until Max was convicted seems a little suspicious. I guess she could have said she wanted to immerse herself into the college environment but I would immediately be suspicious as one of the investigators. I also just don't feel like it truly ended from the last page. I would love to have a fourth book where she comes back to town for the summer or something and solves one more murder, allowing the TRUTH to be heard. Or even solving the case of Jane Doe at college like she said in the very beginning.
It pains me to give this book 1 star. I devoured books 1 and 2 and was looking forward to reading this.
The first half of this book was fine, showing Pip’s PTSD struggles, explaining the new mystery, the ties with the first two books and characters.
The second half went off the rails. She should have run and not involved Ravi and her friends in covering up her crime. And then she turned around and cut them and her family out of her life while the trial was going on. It was such a letdown.
The first half of this book was fine, showing Pip’s PTSD struggles, explaining the new mystery, the ties with the first two books and characters.
The second half went off the rails. She should have run and not involved Ravi and her friends in covering up her crime. And then she turned around and cut them and her family out of her life while the trial was going on. It was such a letdown.
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