As Good as Dead: The Finale to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide To Murder, #3)

by Holly Jackson

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. . . 


And don't miss Holly Jackson's latest thriller, The Reappearance of Rachel Price!

• ISBN10: 0593379853
• ISBN13: 9780593379851
• Publish Date: 28 September 2021
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Delacorte Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 464
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780593379851

Reviews

[nora]

This book was SO grim, from beginning to end. I'm not sure which other direction it could have taken - considering the bleak ending of the previous book - but I don't think there was any part of this book I actually enjoyed.

The structure and tone are so different from the other two, and Pip is almost unrecognisable in her unhinged downward spiral. That she doesn't even suspect the killer after that email is the single most unbelievable thing I've read.

A very disappointing end to an otherwise fantastic series.

[Joni Reads]

Reviewing while it's fresh in my mind and will review the rest of the series soon...

I'm so sad that this book was a let down.

The self destructiveness of Pip was really hard to read. It was expected for the things she experienced but it just didn't work for the series.

The first quarter of the book was basically just watching Pip unravel while everyone around her acted like they didn't see it happening.

Then we get to the action. While a 17-18 year old solving murders will never be realistic this book pretty much lost any sense of realism.

Pip not realizing who the killer was when the clues were literally spelled out for her.
The entire portion of the book that takes place at Green Scene Ltd.
And then everything that takes place after that.

It was one big disaster and I was so incredibly unbelievable.

Then the ending. Pip's self exile? The last page? I just couldn't.

That was the most unsatisfying end to what has been an amazing series until this book.

Definitely disappointing but that doesn't mean I will rule out the author's next book. I do look forward to Five Survive. She did great with the first two books in this trilogy. The ending just completely fell apart sadly.