Get ready to crack the case on a new murder mystery, because A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is sleuthing its way onto your screens this summer.

Emma Myers, who portrays Wednesday Addams’ werewolf roommate Enid Sinclair in Wednesday, will star as the smart and single-minded Pip Fitz-Amobi in the series, based on Holly Jackson’s hugely successful YA mystery novel of the same name. The six-episode season, adapted by Poppy Cogan and directed by Dolly Wells, follows 17-year-old Pip as she investigates the murder of a high school student who was killed five years prior. 

“I’m thrilled about this show, and getting to be Pip has been a dream,” Myers tells Tudum. “Whether you’ve read the book or not, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is an experience all around. I think people are really going to like it.”

The series, commissioned by the BBC and produced by Moonage Pictures, in co-production with ZDFneo and Netflix, will first air in the UK and Ireland on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer before coming to Netflix on Aug. 1. 

Read on for some more clues about what to expect.  

What is A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder about? 

The series takes place five years after a murder-suicide shook the town of Little Kilton. Popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. At least, that’s what everyone believes, including the police. Case closed, right? But Pip Fitz-Amobi (Myers), now a high school senior herself, sees how the gruesome murder still has a grip on her hometown, and she thinks there’s more to the story. Pip begins an investigation of her own as she looks into the case for her senior project, determined to get to the bottom of this mystery. But if Sal didn’t do it, that means a murderer is still out there — and Pip herself may now be in danger. 

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Who’s in the cast of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder?

Myers stars in the series as Pip Fitz-Amobi, alongside Zain Iqbal, who plays Sal’s brother Ravi Singh. The cast also includes Anna Maxwell Martin, Gary Beadle, Mathew Baynton, India Lillie Davies, Rahul Pattni, Henry Ashton, Mitu Panicucci, Orla Hill, Ephraim O.P. Sampson, Carla Woodcock, Yasmin Al-Khudhairi, Jessica Webber, Matthew Khan, Georgia Aaron, Oliver Wickham, Adam Astill, Annabel Mullion, Jude Morgan-Collie, Raiko Gohara, Asha Banks, and Yali Topol Margalith.

Where can I watch the trailer for A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder? 

This part isn’t a mystery: You can find the trailer at the top of this story. Watch it carefully, like any good detective would — you just might pick up some clues.

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Is A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder based on a book? 

The series is based on the popular trilogy of novels by British author Holly Jackson. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is the first book in the YA mystery series, which became a New York Times bestseller and has sold millions of copies worldwide. That novel’s 2019 debut was followed by Good Girl, Bad Blood in 2020 and As Good as Dead in 2021. (There’s also a prequel novella you can read about Pip, Kill Joy, that was also published in 2021.) 

Jackson, for her part, is “beyond excited” that A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is sleuthing its way to Netflix. “I hope viewers will love discovering (or rediscovering) all the secrets and lies of our small English town — Little Kilton,” she tells Tudum. “Viewers can expect laugh-out-loud moments from all the teenage antics, but also all the pulse-pounding twists you’d find in the darkest of thrillers. Heartbreak, tears, gasps, swooning at all the PipRavi moments brought to life, watching behind a cushion, cursing my name … be prepared for it all when A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder hits your screens later this year.”

When is A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder coming to Netflix? 

The series will make its Netflix debut on Aug. 1. You don’t have to be a Pip-level sleuth to know you’ll want to tune in.