Synopsis:
Welcome to the murder mystery party of the year! Fans of the hit series A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder will love Pip’s final detective case in this mystery novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Jackson.
Six suspects. Three hours. One murder…
Pip is not in the mood for her friend’s murder mystery party. Especially one that involves 1920’s fancy dress and pretending that their town is an island called Joy. But when the game begins, Pip finds herself drawn into the make-believe world of intrigue, deception and murder.
But as Pip plays detective, teasing out the identity of the killer clue-by-clue, the murder of the fictional Reginald Remy isn’t the only case on her mind…
Review:
I’ve been meaning to read Kill Joy for quite a while now, but I just kept forgetting about it. Which is fine, it doesn’t really add anything to the plot of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. It’s more just a fun little novella for fans of the series.
I had a lot of fun reading Kill Joy. It was the perfect length and I managed to read it all in one sitting (which is no easy feat for me right now). It’s actually crazy how immersive this novella is. It felt like I was back in the 1920s and Pip and her friends were actually the characters they were playing. Obviously it’s a little unbelievable that they’d all be such good actors that could improvise entire conversations on the spot, but this didn’t matter to me. As long as the storytelling is good I’m happy.
I LOVE that you get a little sighting of Ravi. It wouldn’t be a Good Girl’s Guide to Murder book without Pip AND Ravi. They don’t interact with each other but at the very end Pip sees him as she’s going past in a car and just comments on how he’s related to the Andie Bell case (the plot of the first book for those who haven’t read A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder) and how seeing him inspires her to pick it as her topic for her report. Which I thought was a nice touch.
At this point I think everything Holly Jackson writes is just pure gold. I’m yet to rate one of her books less than a perfect score of five stars. Which may be a little generous to give to a novella, but I had a lot of fun reading it and that’s all that matters.
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