A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

You killed Barney.’

Oh, but . . . what are people going to think if they see you going into Ravi Singh’s house?’

‘It’s sausage to me.’

Real men wear floral when trespassing

Andrea Bell, 17, was reported missing from her home in Little Kilton, Buckinghamshire, last Friday

An innocent life was taken and everyone in this town turned it ugly in their mouths, turned him into a villain. But if a villain can be made, then they can be unmade.

Maybe that Andie was a fictional character all along, designed to bucket-collect people’s sympathy, to exchange their coins for newspapers

He kissed her, and she glowed with that feeling. The one with wings.
‘You bring the rain down on them, Pip.’
‘I will.’

‘ Real men wear floral when trespassing,’ Ravi said, slipping them on and clapping his gloved hands together.

You know you use humour as a defence mechanism when you’re rattled?’ Pip smiled at him, letting him through the hedge gap ahead of her.
‘Yeah, and you get bossy and posh.’

Feisty Pip was pretty loud.’