The BBC has announced the return of ‘masterpiece’ thriller, A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder, which has received rave reviews. 

Writer Holly Jackson said she is ‘beyond thrilled!’ to be able to continue the story and thanks the dedicated viewers.  

The series has been renewed for a six-part second season, set to be filmed in the UK in 2025. 

Based on Holly’s bestselling books, of the same name, series one was adapted for the screen by Poppy Cogan.

It follows single minded, 17-year-old Pip Fitz-Amobi, from the fictional English town of Little Kilton, who is determined to prove a murderer’s innocence for a school project.

The BBC has announced the return of ‘masterpiece’ thriller, A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder, which has received rave reviews (Emma Myers pictured as Pip Fitz-Amob)

Writer Holly Jackson said she is ‘beyond thrilled!’ to be able to continue the story and thanks the dedicated viewers

Emma Myers will return as Pip alongside Zain Iqbal as Ravi Singh, with full casting to be announced in due course.

After solving the Andie Bell case Pip‘s world has been transformed by her actions, and not always for the better. 

Pip is determined to fix the fallout – and stay away from any more investigations. But as Max Hastings’ trial approaches, key witness Jamie Reynolds suddenly disappears and Pip finds herself in a race against time to find him. 

This new mystery will take Pip to unexpected places as she struggles with the idea of justice, straying even further from the ‘good girl’ she once was.

Holly said: ‘I am beyond thrilled that we can continue Pip’s story and, this time, I’m writing on the show! We owe everything to the dedicated fans, and I can’t wait to reunite with my AGGGTM family!’

Poppy added: ‘I’m delighted to be back in Little Kilton with Pip and friends for season two, and to have the opportunity to bring another of Holly’s gripping stories to the screen.’  

Lindsay Salt, Director of BBC Drama, said: ‘It’s been a joy to see the fantastic response to A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, particularly from younger viewers. 

‘We’re thrilled to once again join forces with Holly, Poppy, Emma, Zain and the team to bring this next exciting chapter to BBC iPlayer and BBC Three.’

The series has been renewed for a six-part second season, set to be filmed in the UK in 2025 (Aisha Banks as Cara Ward, left and Emma as Pip)

When the first series was released in August viewers admitted they were ‘so obsessed’ with the thriller that they cancelled all their plans to watch it. 

The nailing-biting mystery first aired on the BBC but has also been released on Netflix – with viewers planning to watch the series ‘six times’ and ‘sacrifice sleep’ because it’s ‘perfect’. 

One fan wrote: ‘This lived up to, if not, surpᴀssed my expectations. It hasn’t even been out for a week and I’ve already watched the series through six times. I highly recommend this series, it is the perfect Mystery/Thriller to watch if you’ve got a spare weekend.’;

‘I just finished watching A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder and I LOVED IT. I loved every second, they left out no details, I was worried they’d change the storyline a bit but they didn’t and I’m just so happy. It was worth sacrificing my sleep for it.’;

‘The series is excellent and everything was nailed to perfection. THE has perfect suspense and thrill I would 100% recommend to binge this series.’;

‘I FRICKING loved this. It wasn’t the exact same as the books but personally I didn’t really mind that, it was still very interesting. THIS IS A MUST WATCH SHOW!!! Seriously. Also lots of squealing (watch till the end TRUSTTTT!).’

Several commenters were full of praise for the casting, writing that Emma, 21 – who also starred in Netflix’s Wednesday – was going to ‘slay’ the role.

The author Holly, 31, has also been brought on as an executive producer on the BBC adaptation.

And earlier this year, she told the Bookseller that she has been stringent with making sure it’s the same story readers have grown to love and that ‘some of the most fan-favourite quotes and moments from the books made it in there’.

A Good Girls’ Guide to Murder came out in May 2019 – just months before the Covid pandemic.

The literary sensation, which has become a viral classic for TikTok book lovers everywhere, entails the story of single minded, 17-year-old Pip Fitz-Amobi, from the fictional English town of Little Kilton, who is determined to prove a murderer’s innocence for a school project

The nailing-biting mystery first aired on the BBC but has also been released on Netflix – with viewers planning to watch the series ‘six times’ and ‘sacrifice sleep’ because it’s ‘perfect’

It was an instant hit, named one of the best books of 2020 by Barnes and Noble and racking up a series of accolades, including the Children’s Fiction Book Winner of the Year тιтle at the British Book Awards that same year.

Holly told the Bookseller she thought it was the ‘peak of success’ then but has felt that it’s ‘still peaking now’.

Unusually, the book also has an alternative American edition that is set in the US – in Connecticut instead of Little Kilton.

However, her works outside the series since have been set in the States. Holly told the Bookseller that while the move was initially commercial, she found it easier to pen true crime stories in a setting that is ‘very fertile setting for messed-up things to happen that you might not necessarily buy if they happened in the UK’.

Her latest novel, The Reappearance of Rachel Price, follows 18-year-old Bel, whose missing mother eerily shows up as a true crime documentary about her begins filming.

This new mystery will take Pip to unexpected places as she struggles with the idea of justice, straying even further from the ‘good girl’ she once was 

The book of the same name came out in May 2019 – just months before the Covid pandemic

The story is set in Gorham, New Hampshire, and Holly revealed that she used Google Maps to paint a picture of the place for herself, starting with the local McDonald’s.

‘This was slightly more personal since I have family who are from Randolph, which is an even smaller town next door,’ she told the New York Times .

‘But it was so small it didn’t have some of the stuff I needed.’

Being a true crime fan herself, the way stories are reported in the media and perceived by the public is also a common theme in Holly’s work.

‘I think all my books owe something to true crime media. I thoroughly research every single topic that I write about,’ she told Publishers Weekly in an interview.

‘Even if it’s only something that crops up briefly – I will have become an internet expert in that thing. It’s probably a form of procrastination, if I’m being honest.’

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is available to stream on Netflix and BBC iPlayer.