A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Books in Order
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson contains 4 books, published between 2019 and 2021. The first book is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2019) and the newest is As Good As Dead (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 4
- Published
- 2019–2021
- Confirmed
- 4 of 4 titles
- Pages on record
- 1,232 in 3 of 4 books
- Reading time
- 21–31 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,232 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 3 of 4 titles with a page count on record.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is Holly Jackson's young adult crime series, set in the town of Fairview, where a closed case says the high school senior Andie Bell was killed by her boyfriend Sal Singh, who then took his own life. Five years on, Pip reopens the story as a school project and then as an obsession, unconvinced by the version everyone repeats. Four books are catalogued: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2019), Good Girl, Bad Blood (2020), Kill Joy (2021) and As Good As Dead (2021).
How many A Good Girl's Guide to Murder books are there?
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder has 4 books, released between 2019 and 2021.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 4 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1A Good Girl's Guide to Murder2019 · 400 pages · confirmed 4/420194004/4
- 2Good Girl, Bad Blood2020 · 432 pages · confirmed 4/420204324/4
- 3Kill Joy2021 · confirmed 4/42021–4/4
- 4As Good As Dead2021 · 400 pages · confirmed 4/420214004/4
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Books in Chronological Order
In story order, Kill Joy comes first and As Good As Dead comes last. Chronological order follows the events inside the story rather than the release dates. The 4 books below run in that in-universe sequence.
- 3Kill Joy2021 · confirmed 4/42021–4/4
- 1A Good Girl's Guide to Murder2019 · 400 pages · confirmed 4/420194004/4
- 2Good Girl, Bad Blood2020 · 432 pages · confirmed 4/420204324/4
- 4As Good As Dead2021 · 400 pages · confirmed 4/420214004/4
Do you have to read A Good Girl's Guide to Murder books in order?
You should read the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each A Good Girl's Guide to Murder book also stands alone.
Where to start with A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Start with A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2019), the earliest published title. In the chronological order, Kill Joy comes first.
What is the newest A Good Girl's Guide to Murder book?
As Good As Dead (2021) is the newest A Good Girl's Guide to Murder book released so far.
Is there a new A Good Girl's Guide to Murder book coming?
No next A Good Girl's Guide to Murder book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder at a glance
- Paused
- No new A Good Girl's Guide to Murder title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- A Good Girl's Guide to Murder books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 1,232 pages across the 3 of 4 books with a recorded length, a median of 400 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most A Good Girl's Guide to Murder books, 3 of 4, were published in the 2020s.
- Corroboration
- 4 of the 4 titles appear in all four independent book listings.
What the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder books are about
3 of the 4 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 2 of 3. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Children's fiction 2 of 3 books
- Young adult fiction, law & crime 2 of 3 books
- As good as dead 1 of 3 books
- Cold cases (Criminal investigation)--Fiction 1 of 3 books
- Crime 1 of 3 books
- Criminals 1 of 3 books
- Humor 1 of 3 books
- Murder 1 of 3 books
- Murder--Fiction 1 of 3 books
- Mystery & detective 1 of 3 books
- Pip Fitz-Amobi 1 of 3 books
- Stalking in fiction 1 of 3 books
More books by Holly Jackson
The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.
- Holly Jackson books in order 8 books