TV review: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is peppy young-adult crime fare

School holidays have just begun, and Pip has time on her hands. What better moment to investigate the cold (ish) case of the murder of a 17-year-old schoolgirl by her boyfriend, who confessed to the crime before taking his own life? 

Emma Myers stars as Pip in the TV adaption of Holly Jackson’s YA bestseller The Good Girl’s Guide To Murder. Picture: BBC

Cosy crime and YA fiction are two of the big blockbuster genres of our time — so why not cross the streams and enjoy the mega-ratings sure to ensue? 

That’s the logic at play with A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (BBC Two, Thursday) — a peppy adaptation of the bestselling Holly Jackson novels that sees a pesky teen solving crimes in a small English town.