Get ready to crack the case on a new murder mystery, because A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is sleuthing its way onto your screens.

Emma Myers, who portrays Wednesday Addams’ werewolf roommate, Enid Sinclair, in Wednesday, stars as the smart and single-minded Pip Fitz-Amobi in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, based on Holly Jackson’s hugely successful YA mystery novel of the same name. The six-episode season, adapted by Poppy Cogan and directed by Dolly Wells, follows 17-year-old Pip as she investigates the murder of a high school student who was killed five years prior. 

“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.”

The series, commissioned by the BBC and produced by Moonage Pictures, in co-production with ZDFneo and Netflix, first aired in the UK and Ireland on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer and is now streaming on Netflix as of Aug. 1.

Read on for some more clues about what to expect.  

What is A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder about? 

The series takes place five years after a murder-suicide shook the town of Little Kilton. Popular high school senior Andie Bell (India Lillie Davies) was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh (Rahul Pattni), who then killed himself. At least, that’s what everyone believes, including the police. Case closed, right? But Pip Fitz-Amobi (Myers), now a high school senior herself, sees how the gruesome murder still has a grip on her hometown, and she thinks there’s more to the story. Pip begins an investigation of her own as she looks into the case for her senior project, determined to get to the bottom of this mystery. But if Sal didn’t do it, that means a murderer is still out there — and Pip herself may now be in danger. 

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

• Emma Myers (Wednesday, Family Switch) as Pip Fitz-Amobi, who investigates the case of Andie Bell’s disappearance and Sal Singh’s death
• India Lillie Davies (Bridgerton) as Andie Bell, the popular high schooler who mysteriously disappeared  
• Rahul Pattni (Casualty) as Sal Singh, Andie’s boyfriend
• Zain Iqbal (All Crazy Random) as Sal’s brother and Pip’s fellow investigator, Ravi Singh 
• Anna Maxwell Martin (Becoming Jane, The Bletchley Circle) as Pip’s mother, Leanne Fitz-Amobi 
• Gary Beadle (In the Heart of the Sea) as Pip’s father, Victor Amobi
• Asha Banks (The Magic Flute) as Pip’s best friend, Cara Ward 
• Yasmin Al-Khudhairi (Ackley Bridge) as Cara’s older sister, Naomi Ward 
• Mathew Baynton (Wonka, The Wrong Mans) as Pip’s English teacher and Cara and Naomi’s dad, Elliot Ward 
• Henry Ashton (Outlander, My Lady Jane) as Max Hastings, Naomi’s friend  
• Carla Woodcock (Tell Me Everything) as Becca Bell, Andie’s younger sister 
• Jessica Webber (After Everything) as Nat Da Silva, Andie’s friend
• Jackson Bews (Black Mirror) as Dan Da Silva, Nat’s brother and a young police officer 
• Georgia Aaron (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) as Emma Hutton, Andie’s friend 
• Mitu Panicucci as Stella Chapman 
• Orla Hill (Hetty Feather) as Ruby Foxcroft
• Ephraim O.P. Sampson (Good Boy) as Jake Lawrence 
• Matthew Khan as Dylan  
• Oliver Wickham (Wednesday) as Jesse Walker
• Adam Astill (All the Money in the World) as Toby Hastings
• Annabel Mullion as Rosie Hastings 
• Jude Morgan-Collie (Here We Go) as Connor Reynolds
• Raiko Gohara (Get Lost) as Zach Chen
• Yali Topol Margalith (The Tattooist of Auschwitz) as Lauren Gibson

Where can I watch the trailer for A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder? 

You can find the trailer at the top of this story. Watch it carefully, like any good detective would — you just might pick up some clues.

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Is A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder based on a book? 

The series is based on the popular trilogy of novels by British author Holly Jackson. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is the first book in the YA mystery series, which became a New York Times bestseller and has sold millions of copies worldwide. That novel’s 2019 debut was followed by Good Girl, Bad Blood in 2020 and As Good as Dead in 2021. (There’s also a prequel novella you can read about Pip, Kill Joy, that was also published in 2021.) 

Jackson, for her part, is “beyond excited” that A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is streaming on Netflix. “I hope viewers will love discovering (or rediscovering) all the secrets and lies of our small English town — Little Kilton,” she tells Tudum. “Viewers can expect laugh-out-loud moments from all the teenage antics, but also all the pulse-pounding twists you’d find in the darkest of thrillers. Heartbreak, tears, gasps, swooning at all the PipRavi moments brought to life, watching behind a cushion, cursing my name … be prepared for it all when A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder hits your screens.”

What songs are featured in the A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder soundtrack? 

Here are all the killer songs that are included in the series. 

Episode 1: 

• “The Feminine Urge” by The Last Dinner Party
• “Chances” by Kaytranada
• “A New Error” by Moderat
• “In the Big Mood” by BBC Big Band
• “Gunshot” by Lykke Li

Episode 2: 

• “Seize the Power” by Yonaka
• “To Rage” by Daughter
• “Wet Dream” by Wet Leg
• “Me and the Devil” by Gil Scott-Heron
• “Midnight” by Siobhan Sainte

Episode 3:

• “Sail” by AWOLNATION
• “Guillotine” by mansionair x NoMBe
• “Patient Zero” by CHAV
• “Warp 1977” by The Bloody Beetroots feat. Steve Aoki
• “Reception” by Daniel Avery
• “Beyond Control” by NTO and Monolink
• “Osiris” by matstubs x Rfen
• “Funnel of Love” by SQÜRL (feat. Madeline Follin)

Episode 4:

• “Selfish Soul'” by Sudan Archives
• “Since Last Wednesday” by Highasakite
• “Take Care” by Beach House
• “You Should See Me in a Crown” by Billie Eilish

Episode 5:

• “Pump” by Chris Lorenzo
• “5 In the Morning” by Charli XCX
• “Concrete Over Water” by Jockstrap
• “The Whole Universe Wants to be Touched” by Nils Frahm
• “Organ Donor” by DJ Shadow

Episode 6:

• “Keep the Streets Empty for Me” by Fever Ray
• “Out of Control” by The Chemical Brothers
• “Nothing Is Safe” by Clipping
• “If I Had a Heart” by Fever Ray
• “Coffee” by Sylvan Esso
• “Anyone Who Knows What Love Is” by Irma Thomas

Where was A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder filmed?

You can’t actually go to the fictional Little Kilton, but you could pay a visit to Axbridge in Somerset, England, which stood in for the series’ quiet little town. The scenes at Little Kilton School were filmed at Redmaids’ High School in Bristol, and the Redcliffe Caves in Bristol were the location for the secretive calamity party.

When is A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder coming to Netflix? 

This part’s no mystery — A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is streaming now.