PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT: 5/5 NARRATORS: 5/5 OVERALL: 5/5
“I’m unsure I’m the great lady I as soon as thought I used to be. I’ve misplaced her alongside the way in which”
– Holly Jackson, A Good Woman’s Information to Homicide
I’m a large fan of mysteries and thrillers, and one in every of my favorite themes has all the time been closed or unresolved instances. A Good Woman’s Information to Homicide has lengthy been on my TBR, and a current evaluation that I noticed on Instagram prompted me to select this one up subsequent.
Fortunately, I discovered the audio of this ebook in my Storytel subscription app, and to my nice pleasure, it was narrated by a full solid.
At any time when an audiobook is narrated by a full solid, whereas listening, the story comes alive and turns into fairly partaking for the listener. And as I had anticipated, the complete solid did full justice to the story and its characters.
The abstract of A Good Woman’s Information to Homicide
5 years in the past, a faculty lady named Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend Sal Singh. This ruthless homicide that killed a younger and harmless soul inflicted everybody with grief. Everybody within the small city is aware of it, together with the Police, and consider it of their coronary heart that Sal was the assassin.
Properly, everybody besides Pippa Fitz-Amobi, who has lived and grown up in the identical city and in addition goes to high school there. Pippa doesn’t consider that Sal may very well be the assassin, having identified Sal since she was younger. To uncover the reality behind the homicide, Pippa chooses this case as her subject for the ultimate yr venture.
However as she goes in step-by-step, fixing the case and unraveling the layers of fact, she begins to uncover secrets and techniques that have been hidden by the very folks of this small city. Secrets and techniques that they don’t need popping out.
The actual killer remains to be on the market, residing his regular life, however as Pip comes nearer to the reality, life for her begins getting tough; one thing or somebody is spelling hazard for her.
How far will Pip go to seek out the actual killer?
My ideas
OMG! That is such a superb ebook and the narration is on level. The writing is quick and gripping, with sufficient twists and turns that stored me hooked proper until the tip. Additionally, in contrast to many different thrillers that fizzle out within the climax, within the case of A Good Woman’s Information to Homicide, the ultimate twist was completed very cleverly.
With each chapter, we uncover one thing new, one thing murkier than earlier than. With each chapter, the finger is pointed at somebody new, solely to understand within the subsequent chapter that it may very well be one other particular person. I loved the way in which the case was solved going step-by-step, by getting all of the information rechecked and discovering loopholes within the investigation.
Our essential character Pippa is the good detective/investigative journalist-in-the-making. She is powerful, clear-headed, fearless, curious, and decided. Most of all, she has the center to do what it takes to unravel a case like this one.
“I’ve already realized my lesson right here: whenever you catch somebody mendacity a couple of murdered lady, you go ask them why.”
In the event you get your arms on the paperback, effectively and good. However I might extremely suggest listening to the audiobook for this one. If there’s only one assertion to explain it, it could be – It’s FANTASTIC!!
All of the narrators did a wonderful job. Not simply the dialogues and the common narration but additionally the actual audio telephone calls and the vlog entries in the midst of narration have been sensible. If I might give an additional star for the narration, belief me, I certainly would.
Ultimately
A Good Woman’s Information to Homicide is a YA thriller/thriller that shouldn’t be missed. Not in any circumstances. It might additionally make a unbelievable TV film or a collection adaptation, maybe one thing alongside the traces of 13 Causes Why.
As for me, I might be listening to the subsequent two books actual quickly – Good Woman, Dangerous Blood, and As Good As Lifeless.
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