KILL JOY by HOLLY JACKSON is a cute, YA prequel to her bestseller, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.

Only 117 pages, this novella takes place over the course of one evening, where Pip and her friends play a murder mystery game. With alternative identities and clues throughout, Pip must uncover a killer's identity.

Seeing as it is a prequel, the reader is shown the origin story for Pip’s interest in the murder-suicide of Sal Singh and Andie Bell. Given her great detective skills and nose for people's motivations, the reader can see exactly why she chose her senior capstone project.

hindsight: cute and quick