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Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

 



Synopsis from Goodreads: Pip is not a detective anymore.

With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her.

But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell and Sal Singh.

The police won't do anything about it. And if they won't look for Jamie then Pip will, uncovering more of her town's dark secrets along the way... and this time everyone is listening. But will she find him before it's too late? 

Current Goodreads rating: 4.41

My rating: 3.4


I really loved the first book (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder) so I bought this one as soon as it came out. It just took me a while to get around to it, ha.  I would recommend the audiobook version of this book because it's a whole production. It's really cool! I was put off by Pip in this book. Her attitude was just insane to me. Here she is a literal child trying to tell grown police how to do their job? I think I wasn't so bothered by her in the first book because she was doing her sleuthing for a school project so she had a reason to be snooping, plus it was a cold case from the past. Maybe it's just because I'm old now 😅 but I just thought she conducted herself in a wildly inappropriate way and it wasn't all that believable to me. I did keep reading because I wanted to know what happened, but I feel like the story was kind of disjointed as well. It was going one way and then all of a sudden it was this instead. Instead of being a shocking plot twist, it just didn't track for me. It's not to say this was a bad book, I just think it wasn't for me. I am unsure if I will read the third installment that comes out in September of this year. 


Happy Reading!xx






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