A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder might seem like the classic murder mystery show but with lots of twists and turns, it stands out as one of the best thrillers of 2024. Based on Holly Jackson’s young adult novel, there’s many questions swirling around Little Kilton, and one of them includes who exactly killed Sal?
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Pip Fitz-Amobi (Emma Myers) involves herself in a very peculiar case that happened in her town. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell (India Lillie Davies) was killed by her boyfriend Sal Singh (Rahul Pattni) in a murder-suicide. The police find Sal’s body days after the murder and find his texts confessing to the murder of his girlfriend. It prompts them to close the case. Years later, Pippa and Sal’s brother Ravi (Zain Iqbal) confront the past and discover that Sal didn’t kill himself at all.
Who killed Sal in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder?
Andie and Sal’s English teacher Elliot Ward (Mathew Baynton) killed Sal. Elliot suffocated Sal and shoved sleeping pills down his throat after the former wanted to frame him for Andie’s murder. The texts that were sent from Sal’s phone were actually written by Elliot and were a nod to how that text was written in perfect English in comparison to his other texts.
Andie had an inappropriate relationship with Elliot and wanted to leave town with Sal. However in a heated argument, her sister Becca throws Andie against the wall when she revealed her plan. Having already been through another head traumatic injury when Andie was arguing with Elliot just moments before, Andie fell with an awful traumatic injury and was choking on her own vomit. Not knowing what to do, Becca dumped her body in the woods.
Elliot confessed to Sal’s murder when he was drunk to a girl named Isla. He then trapped Isla in the attic of a house so that she could not find the police. Isla talked to Pip and Ravi and the duo decided to call the police. Elliot was arrested there and then, and the next steps for the sleuths was to find and confront Andie’s killer.
