This summary section includes Prologue: “After and Before,” “One Month Later…Thursday:” Chapters 1-2, “Friday:” Chapter 3, “Saturday:” Chapter 4.

Pippa “Pip” Fitz-Amobi is an 18-year-old high school student living in the small town of Fairview, Connecticut. Her chief claim to fame is her true crime podcast, called A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder:

The real story of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder has been the journey, from a seventeen-year-old sleuth’s hunch about a closed case—the murder of teenager Andie Bell, allegedly by her boyfriend, Sal Singh—to the spiraling web of dark secrets she uncovers in her small town. The ever-shifting suspects, the lies, and the twists (7).

A year earlier, Pip solved a five-year-old cold case involving the disappearance of teenage girl, Andie Bell, who had been having an affair with a high school teacher named Elliot Ward. One night, Andie and Elliot had a fight, and Andie accidentally hit her head against Ward’s desk. She then left without a word. When Andie didn’t turn up days later, Ward assumed the head injury had killed her. To cover up his involvement in her death, he murdered her boyfriend, Sal Singh, making it appear that Sal killed Andie and then took his own life.