A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Kill Joy, a prequel novella, depicts a murder mystery dinner which Pip attended before the events of the first book.

Five years ago, schoolgirl Andrea "Andie" Bell was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend, Salil "Sal" Singh, who then killed himself. The case has now gone cold, but 17-year-old Pippa "Pip" Fitz-Amobi is convinced that the real killer is still at large. She starts a project (an EPQ in the British version) pretending to investigate media involvement in the case while actually trying to figure out who the real killer was, assisted by Sal's younger brother Ravi. She first suspects Max Hastings, a graduate known for starting calamity parties. They end up interviewing several people in and around the fictional town of Little Kilton, near London, which in the American edition is replaced by the equally fictional Fairview, Connecticut, and eventually discover that there were two killers: Andie was murdered by her younger sister, Becca, and Sal was murdered by Elliot Ward, his teacher and the father of Pip's best friend Cara.

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder was named one of the best books of 2020 by Barnes and Noble[1] and received the following accolades:

• American Library Association's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (2021)[2]
• Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2020)[3]
• YA Book Prize shortlist (2020)[4]
• British Book Awards Children's Fiction Book Winner of the Year (2020)[5]

Good Girl, Bad Blood was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize in 2021.[6]

The book also received positive media reviews. The Bookseller said the novel was "twisty and compelling," while The Guardian claimed it was "nail-biting, taut, and pacy," stating that "Jackson[is] a homegrown thriller writer to watch."[7]

As Good As Dead received a positive review from The Guardian, who named the book "a taut, compulsively readable, elegantly plotted thriller."[8]