Pip Fitz-Amobi

Pip Fitz-Amobi is the tenacious, methodical protagonist of Holly Jackson's A Good Girl's Guide to Murder trilogy — a teenager in the English village of Little Kilton who chooses to reinvestigate the supposed murder-suicide of Andie Bell and Sal Singh as her senior project, convinced that the accepted narrative is wrong. What begins as a school project expands into a dangerous investigation that challenges the community's settled account of what happened five years earlier.

Jackson writes Pip with specific psychological authenticity — her determination is not generic teenage boldness but rooted in a specific moral conviction, and her investigation is conducted with the kind of systematic documentation (spreadsheets, interview recordings, evidence logs) that reflects both her character and her genuine investigative ability. The case's danger escalates at a pace that keeps the reader uncomfortable alongside Pip.

The trilogy is one of the most successful in British YA crime fiction, praised for its plotting, its social observation of English village dynamics, and Jackson's refusal to make the resolution simple or comforting. Pip's own psychological costs from the investigation — the trauma that accumulates across three novels — are handled with unusual honesty for the genre.

Begin with A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2019) and read all three in order.