Good Girl, Bad Blood – The Sunday Times bestseller and sequel to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. Holly Jackson

      

      First published in Great Britain in 2020

       by Egmont UK Limited

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      Text copyright © 2020 Holly Jackson

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      Illustration here © Priscilla Coleman

      ISBN 978 1 4052 9777 6

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      For Ben,

      and for every

      version of you these

      last ten years.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Map

After and Before

       One Month Later

THURSDAY: One

Two

FRIDAY: Three

SATURDAY: Four

Five

Six

Seven

       Eight

       Nine

       Ten

       Eleven

       Twelve

       Thirteen

       Fourteen

       Fifteen

       MONDAY 3 DAYS MISSING: Sixteen

       Seventeen

       Eighteen

       Nineteen

       TUESDAY 4 DAYS MISSING: Twenty

       Twenty-One

       Twenty-Two

       Twenty-Three

       Twenty-four

       Twenty-Five

       Twenty-Six

       THURSDAY: 6 DAYS MISSING: Twenty-Seven

       Twenty-Eight

       Twenty-Nine

       Thirty

       Thirty-One

       Thirty-Two

       Thirty-Three

       FRIDAY 7 DAYS MISSING: Thirty-Four

       Thirty-Five

       Thirty-Six

       Thirty-Seven

       Thirty-Eight

       Thirty-Nine

       Forty

       Forty-One

       SUNDAY 16 DAYS LATER: Forty-Two

       SATURDAY 6 DAYS LATER: Forty-Three

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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       About the Author

After and Before

      You think you’d know what a killer sounds like.

      That their lies would have a different texture; some barely perceptible shift. A voice that thickens, grows sharp and uneven as the truth slips beneath the jagged edges. You’d think that, wouldn’t you? Everyone thinks they’d know, if it came down to it. But Pip hadn’t.

      ‘It’s such a tragedy what happened in the end.’

      Sitting across from him, looking into his kind, crinkled eyes, her phone between them recording every sound and sniff and throat-clearing huff. She’d believed it all, every word.

      Pip traced her fingers across the mousepad, skipping the audio file back again.

      ‘It’s such a tragedy what happened in the end.’

      Elliot Ward’s voice rang out from the speakers once more, filling her darkened bedroom. Filling her head.

      Stop. Click. Repeat.

      ‘It’s such a tragedy what happened in the end.’

      She’d listened to it maybe a hundred times. Maybe even a