A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Electric Monkey, an imprint of Egmont UK Limited The Yellow Building, 1 Nicholas Road, London W11 4AN Text copyright © 2019 Holly Jackson The moral rights of the author have been asserted First e-book edition 2019 ISBN 978 1 4052 9318 1 Ebook ISBN 978 1 4052 938 4 6 www.egmont.co.uk A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Stay safe online. Any website addresses listed in this book are correct at the time of going to print. However, Egmont is not responsible for content hosted by third parties. Please be aware that online content can be subject to change and websites can contain content that is unsuitable for children. We advise that all children are supervised when using the internet. Egmont takes its responsibility to the planet and its inhabitants very seriously. We aim to use papers from well-managed forests run by responsible suppliers. To Mum and Dad, this first one is for you. Contents Cover Title page Copyright Dedication Part I One Production Log – Entry 1 Transcript of interview with Angela Johnson from the Missing Persons Bureau Two Production Log – Entry 2 Three Production Log – Entry 3 Transcript of interview with Stanley Forbes from the Kilton Mail newspaper Four Production Log – Entry 4 Transcript of interview with Ravi Singh Production Log – Entry 5 Five Production Log – Entry 7 Transcript of interview with Max Hastings Six Production Log – Entry 8 Transcript of interview with Elliot Ward Seven Eight Nine Production Log – Entry 11 Transcript of interview with Chloe Burch Ten Eleven Part II Twelve Production Log – Entry 13 Transcript of second interview with Emma Hutton Thirteen Production Log – Entry 15 Transcript of second interview with Naomi Ward Fourteen Production Log – Entry 17 Production Log – Entry 18 Fifteen Production Log – Entry 19 Production Log – Entry 20 Transcript of interview with Jess Walker (Becca Bell’s friend) Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Production Log – Entry 22 Nineteen Twenty Production Log – Entry 23 Twenty-One Production Log – Entry 24 Twenty-Two Twenty-Three Production Log – Entry 25 Production Log – Entry 26 Twenty-Four Production Log – Entry 27 Production Log – Entry 28 Production Log – Entry 29 Twenty-Five Twenty-Six Twenty-Seven Twenty-Eight Part III Production Log – Entry 31 Twenty-Nine Thirty Production Log – Entry 33 Thirty-One Production Log – Entry 34 Thirty-Two Thirty-Three Thirty-Four Thirty-Five Thirty-Six Thirty-Seven Thirty-Eight Thirty-Nine Forty Forty-One Forty-Two Forty-Three Forty-Four Forty-Five Forty-Six Forty-Seven Forty-Eight Forty-Nine The Months Later Acknowledgements Endnotes About the Author