51 pages • 1 hour read
Holly JacksonAs Good As Dead
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Background
Literary Context: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Trilogy
The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series consists of three books covering three seasons of Pip Fitz-Amobi’s true crime podcasts. Each season investigates a different mystery, which are all intertwined in a way that doesn’t become apparent until late in the third book. For that reason, understanding the interplay of victims and villains is critical to understanding the series as a whole and its overarching theme of Justice Denied.
Book One: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Pip begins her adventures in true crime podcasting with a senior high school project that quickly pulls her into the dark underside of her seemingly innocent small-town community. She investigates a cold case involving the disappearance of high school student Andie Bell. Her boyfriend, Sal Singh, later apparently commits suicide and leaves behind a written confession that he killed Andie.
In reality, Andie was having an affair with high school teacher Elliot Ward. They quarrel in his office, where she falls and bumps her head. Afterward, she staggers home, suffering from a serious brain injury. Her younger sister, Becca, confronts Andie about selling drugs to date-rapist 
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