As Good As Dead

By: Holly Jackson

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Clare Corbett, Jot Davies, Maryam Grace

THE THIRD AND FINAL THRILLING BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER TRILOGY.

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is The New York Times No.1 bestselling YA crime thriller

Pip Fitz-Amobi is haunted by the way her last investigation ended. Soon she’ll be leaving for Cambridge University but then another case finds her … and this time it’s all about Pip.

Pip is used to online death threats, but there’s one that catches her eye, someone who keeps asking: who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? And it’s not just online. Pip has a stalker who knows where she lives. The police refuse to act and then Pip finds connections between her stalker and a local serial killer. The killer has been in prison for six years, but Pip suspects that the wrong man is behind bars. As the deadly game plays out, Pip realises that everything in Little Kilton is finally coming full circle. If Pip doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears …

©2021 Holly Jackson

Critic reviews

A taut, compulsively readable, elegantly plotted thriller' - Guardian

'A fiendishly-plotted mystery that kept me guessing until the very end.' – Laura Purcell, bestselling author of The Silent Companions

'There is a lot to really enjoy in this story and there is great energy to the writing, as well as some fine characterization' – Peter James, award-winning and no.1 bestselling crime thriller author of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series

'Twisty, compulsive and so, so clever' – Savannah Brown, author of The Truth About Keeping Secrets

'That ending! Pure genius' – Yasmin Rahman, author of All the Things We Never Said

'This book was a delight from start to finish. I laughed. I cried. And I very much enjoyed attempting to solve the case with Pip (who I now want to be my best friend). I didn't guess the twist, and I don't think many people will. Holly Jackson has absolutely killed it with her debut!' – Aisha Busby, author of A Pocketful of Stars and contributor to the award-winning A Change is Gonna Come

'Prepare to be murdered by this book. Dark, dangerous and intricately plotted – my heart literally pounded. I haven't been this addicted to anything since Serial. Holly Jackson is the next big thing, I promise' – Laura Stevens, author of The Exact Opposite of Okay

'Twisty and compelling' – Fiona Noble, Bookseller

"As Good As Dead is a phenomenal YA mystery that deserves to be one of the books of the year and provides a stellar finale to a knockout series." – Nerd Daily

Series of stupid decisions with improbable outcomes

I don’t normally comment but this one really rubbed me the wrong way. The performance was great as usual but the story… It definitely went in a different way than I expected but the storytelling was sloppy. Without spoiling it, a lot of the details didn’t make sense and wouldn’t have worked in reality. Pip’s character evolved in a direction that made me feel uncomfortable, she made stupidly complicated unnecessary plans for plot reasons and shock factor where a more simple solution would have made more sense. She leaned into choices that were irrational and Ravi indulged her instead of being a voice of reason. What are the chances that not a single thing ever would be forgotten, left behind or go wrong? Why would you make a plan relying on perfection when a more simple, obvious choice is right there? Anyway, rant over. I didn’t enjoy the story and I’m going to pretend this abomination was never written.

Takes a bit to get into the story

Like with the other books, it took me a moment to get into the story. But a few chapters in and I really liked it.

Good but not as good as the first one

After reading the first book, which I gave five stars to, I had very high hopes for this series. However, I have found that a star has gone away with each book. I don’t know whether it was the storyline or who the characters developed into. But it just wasn’t giving the same energy that the first book had. The excitement of seeing where this is going to go. I was hoping that it would almost be similar to the first one, but Pip is just solving a different case. Almost like she is a detective. But I feel like the investigation she was doing wasn’t as exciting as the first one. It was still a good book, but compared to the first one in the series, it just didn’t live up to its predecessor.

Pip lost her integrity but it didn't let me down!

Unfortunately, Pip didn't have the perseverance to see how she developed into a heroine at the very end, as we did in the first novel from the very beginning. Although I don't blame her for the way the story has changed, it was unlike of her. As I kept turning the pages, Holly Jackson's seemingly infinite hints continued to astound me.

Terrible

I am going to pretend this book doesn't exist. The first two books were brilliant, but this one really destroyed Pippa forever. Horrible charachter slaughtering.