Mystery Girls Netflix finally has its next masterful crime thriller, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, making its long-awaited worldwide debut on August 1, a month after it premiered to instant acclaim in the UK. Based on the YA novel of the same name by Holly Jackson, the BBC series stars Wednesday star Emma Myers as fictional teen detective Pippa "Pip" Fitz-Amobi as she investigates the murder of Andy Bell (India Lily Davis), a small-town English unraveling the dark secrets of a small English town.

In 2019, Pip was one of the last people to see Andy Bell alive, hours before his disappearance. The entire town of Little Killington believed that Andy had been killed by his lover Sal Singh (Rahul Putney) and later died by suicide, but Pip did not believe Sal had done it. Five years later, Pip teams up with Sal's brother Ravi (Zain Iqbal) to investigate the case and find out who killed the schoolgirl. There are a few twists and turns in this mystery, so for those who have lingering doubts, here is a recap of the ending of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.

In the fifth episode of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Pip's investigation into the murder of Andy Bell turns to Elliott Ward (Matthew Bainton), Pip's English teacher and the widowed father of her best friend Kara (Asha Banks). At the beginning of the episode, Andy learns that Sal's best friend Naomi Ward (Yasmin Al-Kudairi), aka Kara's sister, Max Hastings (Henry Ashton) and Jake Lawrence (Ephraim Sampson) were in a hit-and-run accident on New Year's Eve five years ago and Max was driving drunk. They learn that they have caused the death of the other driver. When Andy goes missing a few months later, the trio receives a threatening letter, ordering them to destroy Sal's alibi for the night of Andy's death. They told the police that Sal had left them to kill Andy, but Sal was really with them when Andy died.

With this new information, Pip posted on social media that he intended to post the full story the next day, inciting the real killer to reveal himself. Pip had intended to find a way to go to the police without telling them the truth about the hit-and-run, but this backfires when the killer texts her again and tells her to drop the case or she will never see "him" again. She fears that the killer is referring to her half-brother Josh (Kamari Lloyd), but instead the killer kills her dog Barney (...) ) and kills him, which thoroughly angers Pip.

However, Barney's death leads Pip to solve the case when she receives a call from the same phone number left in the hotel guestbook by a "secret older man" Andy once dated. When Naomi calls, she tells Pip that she owes him her father's "old brick" phone that she found in a drawer. This means that it was Elliott that Andy was dating when he was a minor. Pip learns this just before he and his friends get into Elliott's car. Coincidentally, Elliott has hired a lot of tutors, but it is discussed that the family has no more money because of "too many mouths to feed." (Andy's body has never been found.)

Pip uses the phone to track Elliot to the family's old house on Berners Lane and texts Ravi to call the police, but he cannot help but go himself. Elliot admits that he slept with Andy and that they were together at the Ivy House Hotel, but says he broke up with her because she was in love with Sal. At the hotel, Andy asks Elliot for money, and a few days later, he comes to his house and demands 5,000 pounds to help him run away from home, using the compromising photos he took at the hotel, or he will tell everyone that he used him. He pushed Andy away and she hit her head on the counter, bleeding. When he tried to call an ambulance, she ran away.

Not sure if Pip trusts him (if I were her, I'd have a hard time trusting anyone anymore), their conversation is interrupted when Pip hears a pipe and heads upstairs to see if Elliot has kept Andy locked up for five years. Instead, she finds a strange girl who looks a lot like Andy. Elliot locks Pip and the strange girl in the attic and gives the new girl, Isla (Georgia Locke), time to explain the situation: when Elliot is looking for Andy, he finds her. Elliot found her when he was looking for Andy and realized she was not Andy, but offered Ira a place to sleep for the night. That night, Ira tells a drunk Elliot that he is a good man, and Elliot asks him how he would feel if he killed someone.

He was not talking about Andy. Instead, Elliott explained that it was a kid named Salil Singh, that Elliott drugged him and suffocated him, and that the teacher looked into Salil's eyes and saw that he was scared to his last breath. Ira tried to escape, but Elliot caught him and held him captive for five years. Fortunately, that night turned out to be Ira's last night of confinement. Ravi called the police, who arrived and arrested Elliott. Ravi called the police, and the police arrived and arrested Elliott.

Eventually Pip realized that Elliott had left a threatening note on Carla's birthday, but could not have killed Bernie. This is because he, Carla, and Naomi were in Oxford the day the dog went missing. In other words, Elliott was not stalking Pip; someone else killed Andy Bell. When Pip visits Elliot at the police station, he tells her that Andy's father Jason (Matt Chambers) was abusive and that he falsified his alibi because he saw Elliot driving a blue van that night. (Elliott also admitted to threatening Naomi and the others after learning about the hit-and-run in her diary, and that hole was filled.) Jason, however, turns out to be a dead end. He was told he was driving to work when the security alarm went off, and returned for dinner shortly thereafter. Pip hears about this from Jessie (Oliver Wickham), a close friend of Andy's sister Becca, who knew of Jason's desire for control from when they used to go to Calamity parties together.

In 2019, Becca (Carla Woodcock) went to a party with Andy and Andy partied hard but tried to keep up. There, Becca was roofied and raped, but Jesse says he can't remember who attacked him. Pip discovers that Andy had sold Max Rohypnol and thinks that Max must have used the drug to rape Becca. This tragic secret is the last clue that Pip needs to put it all together.

When Andy came home after his fight with Elliot, Becca told him about the incident and asked him to go with her to the police. However, Andy told her sister that she could not go to the police because she was the one who sold Max the drugs. Andy claimed that she needed the money to escape running away from home and her father's anger. (Her father found out about Sal and that he had stolen Andy's savings the day she died.) Andy was going out the next day to let Becca deal with her father alone, but in a fit of anger Becca lashed out and pushed Andy away. After receiving a second blow to the head wound, Andy began convulsing and vomiting, but Becca said, "I just stood there and watched her die." Pip tells Becca it wasn't her fault, but Becca says she had nothing to do with it.

Becca then says she will tell Pip where Andy's body is, and of course the teen detective goes with her to the creepy sewer. It turns out that Becca has already roasted Pip's tea and was going to leave her there to die. Luckily, Ravi decides not to leave town and Kara has put a tracking device on Pip so they can find her and stop Becca.

After coming back from the brink of death several times, Pip is able to work on a school project (God, this all started with a school project, and I'm not sure what it was) about solving a murder. Pip also confesses to his mother that he doesn't know if he wants to go to Cambridge or if his father's legacy is on him. Leanne (Anna Maxwell Martin) tells Pip to do whatever he really wants to do, so Generation Z Nancy Drew has a big decision to make. [Pip says to Max Hastings, "Fuck you!" and recalls what Becca said to him in the sewers. Max continues to insist that he and Becca had consensual sex, and that Becca and anyone who believes her is a psycho. Pip, however, is undeterred and says that he is "nothing." She continues, " I will not stop until justice is served to everyone you have hurt." She leaves, patting Max on the shoulder, and heads straight to the pond, where she finally kisses Ravi.

Fans of Holly Jackson's book trilogy already know that there are two more books worth of Pip's adventures, and the show's executive producers, Matthew Reed and Frith Tiplady, told Variety that subsequent seasons will cover the later novels. But the two also made it clear that whether the story will continue depends on its popularity. (Expect good news to arrive in the coming months.) [2