Doll & Em

A Good Girl’s Guide to TV Adaptations

Emma Myers sits indoors, looking contemplative

On paper, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder has all the hallmarks of a top-tier series. Originally published in 2019, Holly Jackson’s young adult novel is a cultural phenomenon, going viral on TikTok, winning the British Book Awards’ Children’s Fiction Book of the Year in 2020, and the hearts of its two million readers.

As well as being known intellectual property, it feeds into the thirst for TV crime drama, and for young adult shows in the vein of Heartstopper and Sex Education.