Serving as a prequel to Holly Jackson's "A Good Girl's Guide to Murder" trilogy ("A Good Girl's Guide to Murder," "Good Girl, Bad Blood," and "As Good as Dead"), "Kill Joy" offers a clever way to sketch some of Pippa Fitz-Amobi's character and provide context for the future choices she'll make.
“Cara shuddered. ‘Urgh, I hate the word moist.’”
Attending a murder-mystery birthday party, Pip and her friends are taken to 1920s Scotland. As the game escalates, she delves deeper into her assigned character and methodically plots out clues and suspicions.
Jackson's novella is an absorbing, short read -- complete with a reference to Stephen King's "It." While not essential to the ensuing trilogy, it does an admirable job of helping to set the scene.
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