Good Girl, Bad Blood
Holly Jackson, 2020
Mystery, thriller & crime Young adult
A teenage detective turns investigator when the police dismiss a disappearance, testing how far she will go for justice—and what it costs the people she loves.
Feels like serenity and hope. About faith and time.
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What ordinary sound can bring an old fear straight back?
It was in nightmares, and crashing pans, and heavy breaths, and dropped pencils, and thunderstorms, and closing doors, and too loud, and too quiet, and alone and not, and the ruffle of pages, and the tapping of keys and every click and every creak. The gun was always there. It lived inside her now. Holly Jackson.Holly Jackson is British, and the series is set in the fictional English town of Little Kilton; its podcast transcripts and evidence files borrow the scrapbook grammar of true-crime audio.
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- What is Good Girl, Bad Blood like?
- Feels like serenity and hope. About faith and time.
- What should I read after Good Girl, Bad Blood?
- If you liked Good Girl, Bad Blood, try Twisted Lies (Ana Huang), The Cuckoo's Calling (Robert Galbraith) and The Woman in Cabin 10 (Ruth Ware).
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Some names arrive in the body before the mind can prepare.
“Stella!” My heart rate sped up. Nothing triggered my fight-or-flight response like the sound of Meredith’s voice. “Yes?” I hid my trepidation behind a neutral expression.
Twisted Lies · Ana Huang
The quiet craft of helping someone destroy themselves.
How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.
The Cuckoo's Calling · Robert Galbraith
The moment you decide you refuse to let fear choose who you become.
Was this what it was going to be like? Was I turning into someone who had panic attacks about walking home from the tube or staying the night alone in the house without their boyfriend? No, fuck that. I would not be that person.
The Woman in Cabin 10 · Ruth Ware
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