A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. Emma Myers as Pip Fitz-Amobi in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. Cr. Courtesy of Joss Barratt/Netflix © 2024
Wednesday and Family Switch star Emma Myers is back for a brand new series on Netflix, the mystery drama A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. Here’s everything we know so far about the series.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is an upcoming internationally licensed Netflix Original YA mystery drama series directed by Dolly Wells. It was adapted for television from Holly Jackson’s New York Times best-selling novel by Poppy Cogan. The BBC commissioned the series and licensed it to Netflix exclusively for distribution in select territories.
TORONTO, ONTARIO – APRIL 15: Holly Jackson speaks at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema on April 15, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Jeremychanphotography/Getty Images)
Zia Ahmed, Ajoke Ibironke, and Ruby Thomas wrote the series alongside Cogan.
The executive producers on the series are Lucy Richer and Danielle Scott-Haughton for the BBC, Matthew Read, Matthew Bouch, and Frith Tiplady for Moonage Pictures, Jonas Melcher for ZDFneo, and Dolly Wells, Holly Jackson, and Poppy Cogan.
Florence Walker is also credited as a producer on the series.
When is A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder coming to Netflix?
The series will be first released in the UK and Ireland on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer before eventually arriving on Netflix US and other selected territories.
The series will not be released on Netflix in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand.
An official release date has yet to be revealed, but A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder will be released sometime in 2024.
Netflix has yet to release its teaser for the series, but we’ve found a teaser from Australian network Stan.
What is the plot of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder?
Netflix has provided a logline for the series;
“Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend Sal Singh. Case closed. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But smart and single minded Pip Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure and she’s determined to prove it. And if Sal Singh isn’t a murderer and the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?”
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. Zain Iqbal as Ravi Singh and Emma Myers as Pip Fitz-Amobi in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. Cr. Courtesy of Sally Mais/Netflix © 2024
Who is in the cast of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder?
Emma Myers leads the cast as Pip Fitz-Amobi. Most subscribers will instantly recognize the actress as Enid Sinclair from the Wednesday series. She also starred in the Netflix family comedy Family Switch with Ed Helms and Jennifer Garner.
Picture: Emma Myers in Wednesday (left) and The Family Switch (right) – Netflix
Zain Iqbal plays the male lead of Ravi Singh, the brother of Sal Singh. The actor will be making his television debut in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.
The remaining cast members are as follows;
- Anna Maxwell Martin (Becoming Jane) as Leanne Fitz-Amobi
- Mathew Baynton (The Wrong Mans) as Elliot Ward
- Annabel Mullion (Warning) as Rosie Hastings
- Carla Woodcock (Tell Me Everything) as Becca Bell
- India Lillie Davies (Call the Midwife) as Andie Bell
- Asha Banks (The Magic Flute) as Cara Ward
- Adam Astill (All the Money in the World) as Toby Hastings
- Henry Ashton (Outlander) as Max Hastings
- Yali Topol Margalith (The Tattooist of Auschwitz) as Lauren Gibson
- Jessica Webber (After Everything) as Nat Da Silva
- Orla Hill (Swallows and Amazons) as Ruby Foxcroft
- Rahul Pattni (The Holy Yield) as Sal Singh
- Jude Morgan-Collie (Here We Go) as Connor Reynolds
- Yasmin Al-Khudhairi (Rye Lane) as Naomi Ward
- Raiko Gohara (Get Lost) as Zach Chen
What is the episode count?
It has been confirmed that there will be six episodes, each with an approximate runtime of 45 minutes.
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