Welcome to the worst bestsellers where we read about panic at the Panini Q so you don't have to.

I'm Kate.

And I'm Renata.

And for this episode, we read A Good Girls Guide to Murder by

Holly Jackson. Joining us to discuss this secretly British YAA mystery is Anna, Renata's co-worker,

an amateur gum shoe. Hello, Anna. Hi. Welcome back to the podcast, Anna. Oh my God, thank you.

I'm so excited to be here.

So as, okay, actually before, because once I get started on this, like, I'm not going to stop.

So before we get too deep in, this does have some content warnings.

A parent suicide, it's not actually suicide, but it's talked about as if it's suicide.

Sexual assault, roofying. And most importantly, a dog dies. So be prepared. Just be prepared.

Yeah, that one really wasn't, I didn't expect it to go there. Didn't. And it did.

Did. So this book, it's been pretty. Didn't. And it did.

So this book, it's been pretty popular.

There's a Netflix adaptation, which I don't think any of us watched.

I was going to watch a couple episodes last night.

And then I turned on Netflix and Netflix was like, do you want to watch K-pop demon hunters again?

And I was like, I do actually.

So I didn't watch it. I just watched K-pop demon hunters again and I was like I do actually so I didn't watch it I just watched K-pop demon hunters yeah I watched the first episode and I was like I think this is bad and I

didn't watch anymore.

So this book, it has been on our local school's summer reading list for the last couple years. And Anna and I between us usually try to read all the summer reading books or at least

give them a heavy skim. So we're like familiar with them because um because that's like our job or whatever yeah and as listeners of the podcast know i don't necessarily like love a murder mystery but i pick this one up and i was a little intrigued because it's kind of, it's not fully epistolary,

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