Emma Myers Is Ready to Solve a Mystery In Our First Look at 'A Good Girl's Guide to Murder'

The BBC has released a series of first-look images for A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, its upcoming six-part series based on author Holly Jackson's bestselling trilogy of YA novels with actress Emma Myers in the lead role. (You likely know her from Netflix's Wednesday, where she played Wednesday Addams's bubbly werewolf magical boarding school roommate and basically stole the show out from under everyone.) In this series, Myers plays Pip Fitz-Amobi, a true crime enthusiast convinced that her small Buckinghamshire town's most famous death isn't the open-and-shut case everyone seems to believe it to be. (Yes, it was a Connecticut town in the U.S. version of the books, but since this is a U.K. series, let's assume it uses U.K. names.) 

Five years earlier, Little Kilton was rocked by a brutal tragedy, a murder-suicide in which popular student Andie Bell went missing and was presumed dead. She was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who seemingly took his life after being accused of the crime. Obvious, right? That's what the whole town thinks, at least; everyone except Pip. She was childhood friends with Sal, and is fully convinced of his innocence. 

Using a school project as an excuse to investigate the crime more deeply, she teams up with Sal's younger brother, Ravi, to find out what happened and figure out who could have wanted to frame Sal for Andie's death. But small towns have dark secrets, and Pip will risk her own life — and those she loves — to prove her suspicions correct. 

Here's the series' description.

Five years ago schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend Sal Singh. Case closed. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But smart and single-minded Pip Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure and she’s determined to prove it. If Sal Singh isn’t a murderer and the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?

Alongside Myers, the cast features an array of rising young stars, including newcomer Zain Iqbal as Ravi, Asha Banks (The Magic Flute) as Cara, Yali Topol Margalith (The Tattooist of Auschwitz) as Lauren, Jude Morgan-Collie (Here We Go) as Connor and Raiko Gohara (Get Lost) as Zach.

"I smile every time I see them together because I know that we’ve pulled off the impossible, and Emma and Zain are the only two people I would trust to bring these characters to life," Jackson said in a statement when the series casting was initially announced. "Everyone’s going to be just as thrilled as I am."

Other notable performers include Anna Maxwell Martin (Good Omens), Gary Beadle (Rye Lane), and Mathew Baynton (Murder is Easy). 

The series adapts the first book in Jackson's trilogy, which certainly leaves the door open for future seasons to tackle the other two books (Good Girl, Bad Blood, and As Good as Dead), which feature the same characters and new mysteries.  

Poppy Cogan is the lead writer of the six-episode series, with Zia Ahmed, Ajoke Ibironke, and Ruby Thomas also penning episodes. Executive producers are Matthew Read, Matthew Bouch, and Frith Tiplady for Moonage Pictures, with Lucy Richer and Danielle Scott-Haughton for the BBC, and Dolly Wells, Jackson, and Cogan. Florence Walker is producing. BBC Studios is handling the international distribution of the series.

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder will air on BBC Three and Player later this year. (Likely in July.) It does not have an American distributor or premiere date yet, but given the popularity of Jackson's books, that's hopefully a problem that will correct itself sooner rather than later.