The 'A Good Girl's Guide to Murder' Trailer Brings a BookTok Favorite to Life

If British television has taught us anything, it's that literally anyone can solve a murder. Whether you're a book publicist, a small business owner, or even a member of a religious order, absolutely no one is going to stop you from sticking your nose into a potentially dangerous, even life-threatening investigation. And now, thanks to Netflix's upcoming adaptation of popular YA novel A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, even teens are getting on the act.

The series, based on the first installment of author Holly Jackson's bestselling trilogy of novels, follows the story of Pippa “Pip” Fitz-Amobi, a young true crime enthusiast who becomes convinced her small town's most famous death isn't as open and shut as everyone seems to think. And, because literally anyone can become a crime solver these days, she takes it upon herself to find the truth.

Five years earlier, her small Connecticut town (here reimagined as Buckinghamshire for British audiences) faced a shocking tragedy: a brutal murder-suicide in which a popular student Andie Bell went missing and was presumed dead. Allegedly murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who took his own life after being accused of her death, the case seems fairly straightforward to everyone but Pip, who was once childhood friends with Sal and can't picture him as a killer.