A Good Girl's Guide to Murder: Release date & time, where to watch, what to expect, and more

Modified Aug 06, 2024 10:09 GMT

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, the much-awaited BBC crime mystery series, is all set to be released on Thursday, August 1, 2024, at 3 AM ET, on Netflix. Directed by Dolly Wells and Tom Vaughan, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is an adaptation of Holly Jackson's famous young adult 2019 novel of the same name.

It is the first part of a set consisting of three novels and a novella. The series will have six episodes, each stretching for 45 minutes, that will cover the events that happened in the first book. Emma Myers whom we have known from the Netflix horror series Wednesday will star as a 17-year-old girl Pip, uncovering mysteries in a sleepy English town.

In a discussion with Tudum, Myers said,

"I'm thrilled about this show, and getting to be Pip has been a dream,” Myers tells Tudum. “Whether you’ve read the book or not, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is an experience all around. I think people are really going to like it."

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder will be released on August 1, 2024, on Netflix

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is the debut novel written by Holly Jackson published in 2019. Jackson, on March 23, 2024, had dropped a small clip of the show, and BBC premiered the series in the U.K. and Ireland on July 1, 2024.

While talking to BBC, Myers expressed her experience of portraying the role of protagonist from a bestselling novel,

“There are so many book fans,” she told BBC.com. She added that she’s “not as intelligent” as Pip. “I have a harder time putting things together and I don’t think I’d have the guts to confront as many people as she does.”

While talking to Radio Times, author Holly Jackson revealed that the team did a lot of hard work to have the script do justice to the true essence of the book. She says,

"They were not initially, I think, as true to the book as they needed to be." She further adds, "So we worked a lot on bringing that back because I knew that the reason the books are where they are is because of the readers, and if we made a show that they weren't happy with, we're kind of screwing ourselves over there."

Who are in the cast of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder?

Besides Emma Myers, who plays the werewolf roommate, Enid Sinclair in Wednesday, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder has a set of very talented actors, contributing to the anticipation of its release.

Pip teams up with Ravi for the murder investigation (Image via YouTube/Netflix)

The major cast in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder are:

Emma Myers as Pippa Fitz-Amobi (aka Pip)
Zain Iqbal as Ravi Singh
Rahul Pattni as Sal Singh
Asha Banks as Cara Ward
Yasmin Al-Khudhairi as Naomi Ward
India Lillie Davies as Andie Bell
Carla Woodcock as Becca Bell
Gary Beadle as Victor Amobi
Henry Ashton as Max Hastings
Jude Morgan-Collie as Connor Reynolds
Yali Topol Margalith as Lauren Gibson
Raiko Gohara as Zach Chen
Mathew Baynton as Elliot Ward
Anna Maxwell Martin as Leanne Amobi

What is the plot of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder?

Andie warns Pip in between in search (Image via YouTube/Netflix)

Pip is a seventeen-year-old teenager who lives in a sleepy English town and finds out that one of the previous students in her school, Andie Bell, was killed five years ago. The police blamed it on Andie's boyfriend, Sal Singh who accepted his crime and took his own life.

Pip soon finds herself in trouble (Image via YouTube/Netflix)

The entire town has always believed Sal to be the murderer of Andie, but Pip finds it very hard to believe that he had committed the crime. She pledges to herself that she will prove Sal innocent. Together with the help of Sal's brother Ravi, Pip sets on an adventure to find out the true culprit behind Andie's murder. But in the process, Pip uncovers some long-hidden dark secrets of the town and soon finds herself in danger.

Will she be able to find the killer and more importantly, will she be able to escape from their clutches? Watch A Good Girl's Guide to Murder to know the answer to all these questions.

Edited by Meghna