Name: As Good As Dead
Rating: 4.355394378966455 (1103 reviews)
ISBN: 9781405298605

Holly Jackson

The third thrilling book in the bestselling, award-winning A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series

As Good As Dead

The highly anticipated finale to the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series, the instant New York Times bestsellers that read like your favorite true crime podcast or show. By the end of this mystery series, you'll never think of good girls the same way again... Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars. Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle . . .and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears. . .

The Finale to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

As Good as Dead

natalie

“Three different stories, but one interconnected knot.”

Maya

I love holly jackson and all of her books besides the two I will read tonight and tomorrow, while I get the crazy plot and storyline I think I liked pip in the first and second book, she fought justice when cops wouldn’t listen so she took it into her own hands however with this book I would understand her ptsd or even her Xanax use, I didn’t like how she ended up killing Jason, maybe I think the book should’ve been similar to how Becca was about to kill her and how Cara/ravi saved her, or maybe Jason came back just as pip had found the hammer and she used it in a actual self defense not beating and hammering his skull in but enough to be free, have no crimes against her or her friends, those interactions with her family asking if she was okay I wish they could’ve been her finally being home after being almost the 6th victim of Jason without him either being free or dead, or maybe Hawkins found out that she was lying about the stalker whom to her “wasn’t real it was all in her head” I think that maybe he would believe her and charge max, maybe because he did hurt women or maybe because he had paid someone like Jason to kill her even though technically he retired after andie.. so basically <br /><br />I think pip should’ve done the same thing after being kidnapped, gotten out with a shelf and Ravi’s voice helping her, I think that maybe either Jason came back and explained max being apart of it while giving his stupid monologue and when he was about to harm her she or someone else stranger, loved one, cops or herself could’ve defended her and that way she wouldn’t have to go through all the trouble to keep everyone safe, to fail and never have her life the same again.. or maybe just maybe it was all a dream ( with a next book) and pip woke up in a hospital where the same kinda story I had came up with was the actual that maybe a stranger killed Jason and went to jail, that max paid jason or reveal his secret, maybe Hawkins noticed she wasn’t that pip he’s seen and looked into it only to find the article and then searched into pips home finding who the killer was only to save pip, or maybe that she was out of her binding and gotten a hammer and just before she passed out from whatever reason she hit Jason enough to get help from a random stranger.. I do hope that if season three comes out they do change it slightly from the book I don’t think it will happen but I surly hope that holly does something similar to the story with maybe a different path of pip not doing anything that would incriminate anyone but max and Jason.. anyways this has been my review <br /><br />Ps: if you love true crime and want to do a podcast be careful! 

The highly anticipated, edge-of-your-seat conclusion to the addictive A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series that reads like your favorite true crime podcast or show. By the end, you'll never think the same of good girls again. Pip's good girl days are long behind her. After solving two murder cases and garnering internet fame from her crime podcast, she's seen a lot. But she's still blindsided when it starts to feel like someone is watching her. It's small things at first. A USB stick with footage recording her and the same anonymous source always asking her: who will look for you when you're the one who disappears? It could be a harmless fan, but her gut is telling her danger is lurking. When Pip starts to find connections between her possible stalker and a local serial killer, Pip knows that there is only one choice: find the person threatening her town including herself--or be as good as dead. Because maybe someone has been watching her all along...

The Finale to a Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Milan Joseph

broooo... i was waiting for a twist the entire second half :(((((

aishah

I honestly felt really disconnected with Pip in this book, and it just took me out of it. I felt like I was watching the scenes unfold rather than being in them with the characters, as in the first books. I think I liked the beginning of the book more than the last half. It was interesting finding out who the DT killer was and how it tied into Andie. The ending felt kind of drawn out to me, but I know all the little details were important. It was pretty interesting to watch their plan unfold, and I think it was a good ending to the series, it felt like everything wrapped up perfectly. 

Maggie Hotmer

The twists and turns just kept on coming right until the very end and I was so excited to see how she wrapped it all together and it was done so well!!! 

Brittany Peterson

This series was sooooo good!!!! 

A perfect finale to a great series!!!

The twists and turns just kept on coming right until the very end and I was so excited to see how she wrapped it all together and it was done so well!!! 

this wasn't the greatest honestly, i was a bit disappointed by the ending. the book seemed both rushed and drawn out, focusing more on the boring parts than the parts that needed to be fleshed out. also, i hate time skips and ambiguous endings. altogether, it wasn't the worst, hence the 4 star rating, but the other books were better :)

"The game had changed. Her against them. Save herself to save herself."

Phew, that was a stressful read, I was on the edge of my seat for this entire book and I never wanted to put it down. That being said, I am disappointed in this one and not completely happy with how this book handled certain topics and how it concluded the series. I just don't think I can suspend my disbelief quite this far... So this is your fair warning that this review is going to have spoilers, because I can't realy think of a way to speak about this book without talking about the major plot points. This review will also have spoilers for book 2 as well.

 ended, with Stanley's murder and Charlie Green escaping - I didn't particularly love how this was handled. Pip has always been a very reckless and relatively selfish person throughout all of these books, she's selfless in a lot of ways but she also acts impulsively without really, fully giving a thought to the people around her that care about her until it's much too late and this book really showed that in black and white. Pip is struggling to cope with her involvement in Stanley's death, the blood on her hands and the gunshots echoing inside her heart, she's struggling to sleep and clearly suffering from PTSD. So, in a truly Pip fashion, I guess, she just deals with it all on her own. The girl who supposedly knows a lot about everything just completely ignores professional advice and therapy and instead takes Xanax peddled from Luke Eaton (Nat's ex boyfriend) and lies to Ravi and her friends. She thinks solving one last case will "save her" but in reality she is spiraling. Then by the end of the book, after all of the horrid traumatic things she goes through, she isolates herself and this tauma is never resolved in any type of healthy way. This is a pretty terrible representation and handling of mental health in my opinion, and if you're going to go down the morally grey route then you HAVE to have the side characters being more worried about her condition and trying to be the voice of reason instead of acting like everything is resolved by the end, when it very clearly is not.

Through the middle of the book I was really enjoying it. The tension of her being stalked, the threatening messages, the connection to the DT Killer and an innocent man behind bars was really thrilling and interesting. As she started to uncover things about the connection I thought it became pretty obvious straight away who the stalker was, but Pip was still blinded and accusing the wrong person. When she got kidnapped I was absolutely hooked and terrified for her and thought Part 2 would switch POVs and be about her friends figuring out how to find her, because that seemed to be the direction the book was heading with the 

"who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?"

 tagline repeated again and again - but unfortunately this book really switched it up, in what I am assuming was meant to be a shocking twist, she miraculously escapes. I found this whole sequence pretty unrealistic to be honest, you're telling me a practised serial killer wouldn't have perfected his craft after five victims, even rusty after a few years out of the game? Hmmm...

The she murders him, and I'm thinking, ok, self defense, this is fine. But then she's talking about covering it up and how she doesn't trust the police and I GET that, I totally understand it, and I get overreacting in the moment and making things worse. But my gosh... what an absolute mess. She then breaks another dozen laws, incriminating Ravi and every single one her best friends... I was absolutely shocked at how this was handled and then played off as if Pip was some type of hero. No. Nope. I'm sorry, this is where the book lost the plot. Pip was clearly suffering a LOT of trauma and for everyone to just enable her to make things worse, a lot of them trusting her blindly, just rubbed me the wrong way. There was some degree of satisfaction with how she managed to get two birds with one stone by framing Max, but it was overshadowed by how ridiculous the rest of the plot was and how it was written as if this was all totally fine as long as she got away with it... I dunno... I am pretty pissed off at that ending to be honest. 

There were parts of this book I did like, the writing, as always, was gripping and had me glued to the page, parts of the storyline were really well thought out and pieced together, the loose threads were all succintly tied up and I was pretty hearthbroken by the end, Jackson really did a number on me with those emotional last few pages. But... wow... yeah, I wanted to love this book, I really, really wanted to but I just can't overlook all the things I thought were badly handled and problematic, the message this book portrays just didn't really work for me. I will definitely be reading more of Holly Jackson's books because I do think she is a fantastic writer, I just think she lost the plot a little bit with this one when she had a really fantastic opportunity to make this series end on a better note. She had the opportunity to make a really stong message about friendship, family and about the reform needed of the police and their poor handling of these types of cases.. and we got some of that shining through, but it was overshadowed by all of the other messiness. I'm so sad to write this review... 😔

Genevieve 

"The game had changed. Her against them. Save herself to save herself."

3.5 ⭐️

Phew, that was a stressful read, I was on the edge of my seat for this entire book and I never wanted to put it down. That being said, I am disappointed in this one and not completely happy with how this book handled certain topics and how it concluded the series. I just don't think I can suspend my disbelief quite this far... So this is your fair warning that this review is going to have spoilers, because I can't realy think of a way to speak about this book without talking about the major plot points. This review will also have spoilers for book 2 as well.

>>>SPOILERS 


Firstly, Pip's reactions to how Good Girl, Bad Blood ended, with Stanley's murder and Charlie Green escaping - I didn't particularly love how this was handled. Pip has always been a very reckless and relatively selfish person throughout all of these books, she's selfless in a lot of ways but she also acts impulsively without really, fully giving a thought to the people around her that care about her until it's much too late and this book really showed that in black and white. Pip is struggling to cope with her involvement in Stanley's death, the blood on her hands and the gunshots echoing inside her heart, she's struggling to sleep and clearly suffering from PTSD. So, in a truly Pip fashion, I guess, she just deals with it all on her own. The girl who supposedly knows a lot about everything just completely ignores professional advice and therapy and instead takes Xanax peddled from Luke Eaton (Nat's ex boyfriend) and lies to Ravi and her friends. She thinks solving one last case will "save her" but in reality she is spiraling. Then by the end of the book, after all of the horrid traumatic things she goes through, she isolates herself and this tauma is never resolved in any type of healthy way. This is a pretty terrible representation and handling of mental health in my opinion, and if you're going to go down the morally grey route then you HAVE to have the side characters being more worried about her condition and trying to be the voice of reason instead of acting like everything is resolved by the end, when it very clearly is not.

Through the middle of the book I was really enjoying it. The tension of her being stalked, the threatening messages, the connection to the DT Killer and an innocent man behind bars was really thrilling and interesting. As she started to uncover things about the connection I thought it became pretty obvious straight away who the stalker was, but Pip was still blinded and accusing the wrong person. When she got kidnapped I was absolutely hooked and terrified for her and thought Part 2 would switch POVs and be about her friends figuring out how to find her, because that seemed to be the direction the book was heading with the "who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?" tagline repeated again and again - but unfortunately this book really switched it up, in what I am assuming was meant to be a shocking twist, she miraculously escapes. I found this whole sequence pretty unrealistic to be honest, you're telling me a practised serial killer wouldn't have perfected his craft after five victims, even rusty after a few years out of the game? Hmmm...

The she murders him, and I'm thinking, ok, self defense, this is fine. But then she's talking about covering it up and how she doesn't trust the police and I GET that, I totally understand it, and I get overreacting in the moment and making things worse. But my gosh... what an absolute mess. She then breaks another dozen laws, incriminating Ravi and every single one her best friends... I was absolutely shocked at how this was handled and then played off as if Pip was some type of hero. No. Nope. I'm sorry, this is where the book lost the plot. Pip was clearly suffering a LOT of trauma and for everyone to just enable her to make things worse, a lot of them trusting her blindly, just rubbed me the wrong way. There was some degree of satisfaction with how she managed to get two birds with one stone by framing Max, but it was overshadowed by how ridiculous the rest of the plot was and how it was written as if this was all totally fine as long as she got away with it... I dunno... I am pretty pissed off at that ending to be honest. 

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There were parts of this book I did like, the writing, as always, was gripping and had me glued to the page, parts of the storyline were really well thought out and pieced together, the loose threads were all succintly tied up and I was pretty hearthbroken by the end, Jackson really did a number on me with those emotional last few pages. But... wow... yeah, I wanted to love this book, I really, really wanted to but I just can't overlook all the things I thought were badly handled and problematic, the message this book portrays just didn't really work for me. I will definitely be reading more of Holly Jackson's books because I do think she is a fantastic writer, I just think she lost the plot a little bit with this one when she had a really fantastic opportunity to make this series end on a better note. She had the opportunity to make a really stong message about friendship, family and about the reform needed of the police and their poor handling of these types of cases.. and we got some of that shining through, but it was overshadowed by all of the other messiness. I'm so sad to write this review... 😔

it seems i wasnt familiar with your game holly jackson

khush

So good it was amazing and an emotional roller coaster  😭😭🫶🏻

Honestly, it’s crazy to see this other side of Pip and can’t say she was wrong with what she did but I blame Hawkins for never believing her and leading her to do what she did. I will say it was quite repetitive which made sense with what she had gone through and her thoughts. But the ending, after the clean up and alibis, seemed to drag a bit and I ended up skimming through just to finish the book. Overall, really good series and good closure for it all. 

lily

Really liked the book, but definitely not my favorite in this series. It took me a very long time to finish it. 

And that ending tho... I am not a fan of this ending. That's why I gave it 3,5 stars. If the ending was (in my opinion) good it definitely would be a 4 star. 

Anja ✨

Really liked the book, but definitely not my favorite in this series. It took me a very long time to finish it. 

And that ending tho... I am not a fan of this ending. That's why I gave it 3,5 stars. If the ending was (in my opinion) good it definitely would be a 4 star. 

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