Review Novel by holly jackson

 

Novel: A good girls guide to murder

Enthralling novel with captivating words takes you to a ride with the world inside the book.The journey which I experienced biting my lips , deep diving to every situation. A full body experience, akin to delightful shiver that dances across the skin. Pip, a girl in A levels who is interested in criminal cases and law ,is doing her EPQ ,a project that you independently work along with your A levels.  She chose to search for a closed case of Andie bells murder accused Sal Singh to be the murderer but Sal died with the case being closed.

The night Andie Bell went missing, Sal was with his friends at max's House with Max ,Naomi , Jake and Milian simpson .Sal told that he left the house by 12:15am , walked home and Sal's father confirmed that he reached home by 12:50 according to Google it takes 30 min from max House to reach Sal's place.
Searches for Andie took place, but everything changed when, on Tuesday ,Sal's friends called police from school and told them that they lied ,as Sal told them to do so ;actually Sal left the house by 10: 30 the night Andie went missing.
Sal didn't pickup any phone but texted his dad a message in the morning . The day when police was searching for Andie in the wood they found a dead body it was Sal .Either Sal was killed or  committed suicide, the police never described the way he died but portrayed it as suicide. After all long way of searching taking up logs ,interviewing the people connected to the case, the police, the missing person bureau . Investigating further, Pip risked her own life, lost her dog ,but continued to delve into the case.
Each moment brings a new suspect that you expect. With turning pages confuses  and enforces to rethink about your expectations. In this tour ,there in between, was a deep Slope that took away our breaths for a moments. Leaving us amused that we couldn't even remember our names .Jason Bell who was an old man, Andie's father, emotionally abusive to his family. Probably having an affair about which Andie knew and was blackmailing him. Some names found to be suspected the most were 

1.Howie bowers who supplied Andie with drugs and Andie's car was found abandoned on his road and her blood found in the boot.
2.Max hasting he was sal's friend he had a bad photo of Andie in ivy house and Co. Brought drugs from andie. Girls were getting drinks spiked up at calamity parties. A night when he was driving the car inspite of being drunken,  naomi and jake sitting at the back seat , hit a person and all they did is ran away. They all received a call threatening them to reveal the truth about this hit and run accident to the police  and blackmailed them to change their statement .
3.Nat da silva who was a violent girls at school, Andie blackmailed her on a photo and she left a threat letter in Andie's locker.
4.Daniel da silva brother of Nat, secret older guy a police officer who knew Jason Bell , Andie said had a relation when was 15 , Andie could have blackmailed him and destroyed his new marriage.
He was the first one to have access to Andie's room after she disappeared.
The tour then brought us back to the track with constant jumps finally reaching to the home where we found the truth box that lacked a piece of puzzle .Eliot ward, father of naomi ward, history teacher at school , Andie persuaded him to have relationship with her after his wife died, which he accepted after which Eliot tried to forget every thing but Andie blackmailed him. Eliot found about that girl Andie was cyber bullying so he complained to his father . That day Andie came to Eliot's house and  started screaming got herself hit ,as Eliot went to bring first aid kit ,she had ran away. Then he came to know that she has disappeared he thought she might have harmed herself so he pointed all the suspicion to Sal and then killed Sal. He also kidnapped Barney ,threatened Pip, then released Barney but probably Barney didn't knew at night where to go he drowned in the river.Eliot had kept a girl who was missing ,had a mental problem and a drug addict, thought her to be Andie and was taking care of her.
It begins again magnifying glass in our minds showing up every details it ends up with a gut feeling that takes you to the criminal But what about Andie what happened to her suspicion goes to her sister . She had been druged in calamities and guilty of not remembering anything about that night, shared it with Andie but Andie insulted her she choked her to death dragged her into the car drove her to threw her in the septic tank.
Ensolving the case with the last piece of puzzle placed in its place. After 3 months Pip presenting his EPQ to a huge audience for solving the Andie bells murder case .