A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Is Back For Season 2
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Everything you need to know before you tune in
When it landed back in summer 2024, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder was an instant hit. Based on the bestselling novels by Holly Jackson, fans young and old gathered to tune into the BBC adaptation, which airs on Netflix worldwide.
Two years on, there’s finally a reprise. Launching next week is everything you need to know about A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder season 2 before you tune in.
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Pip Fitz-Amobi (EMMA MYERS) in A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder. (BBC/Moonage Pictures/Sally Mais)
A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder Season 2: Plot, Cast, Release Date
The BBC and Netflix revealed they were working on a second series of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder way back in November 2024, less than three months after the first series launched. The news did not come as a surprise: in the UK, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder was available to watch for free on the BBC, where it became one of BBC iPlayer’s most watched titles among 16 to 24 year olds. Over in the US it was on Netflix, where it topped the TV charts.
Even back then, however, we knew there would be a little while to wait for series 2. Lead star Emma Myers is most recognisable for her role in another high-profile Netflix series, Wednesday, where she plays teenage werewolf Enid Sinclair. Indeed, in November 2024, the BBC revealed it had plans to film series two in the UK in 2025.
The first season was based on Holly Jackson’s novel of the same name – the first novel in a trilogy, published in 2019 – but it was screenwriter Poppy Cogan who adapted the novel for the small screen. For series two, Jackson is on board and has written the adaptation of the second novel in the trilogy, Good Girl, Bad Blood (2020), along with Cogan.
Pip Fitz-Amobi (EMMA MYERS) and Ravi Singh (ZAIN IQBAL). (© Moonage Pictures/Screengrab/BBC)
What Will Happen?
A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder season 2 is based on the second novel in Jackson’s trilogy, Good Girl, Bad Blood. The action picks up where the first book left off: in the aftermath of discovering the identity of Andie Bell’s murderer, Pip releases a true crime podcast with the help of Ravi. Naturally, it goes viral – but Pip insists her detective days are over.
But then another teenager goes missing – on the very same night Little Kilton hosts a memorial for the six year anniversary of the deaths of Andie and boyfriend Sal. But why aren’t the police interested in looking for Jamie Reynolds? If they won’t, Pip certainly will – and thus begins another investigation, uncovering even more secrets lying beneath the surface of Little Kilton. But this time, the whole town is listening…
Pip Fitz-Amobi (EMMA MYERS) & Ravi Singh (ZAIN IQBAL) in A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder. (BBC/Moonage Pictures/Joss Barratt)
While fans praised series one for its faithfulness to Jackson’s book, we can expect even more of the same for series two. ‘I didn’t write season one, but I went into the process for season two with a very strong idea about what I myself would look for in an adaptation of book I loved,’ Jackson tells the BBC. ‘So I always kept that idea of the reader in mind as I turned to breaking down the series and the ways it would be absolutely 100 percent faithful to what was on the page, and the ways I could introduce new elements which would only serve to elevate the story, never to deviate.’
(L-R) Cara Ward (ASHA BANKS), Pip Fitz-Amobi (EMMA MYERS), Lauren (YALI TOPOL MARGALITH), Zach Chen (RAIKO GAHARA), Connor Reynolds (JUDE MORGAN-COLLIE). (© Moonage Pictures/Joss Barratt/BBC)
Who Will Star?
The core cast will return, plus some newbies.
- Emma Myers as Pippa (Pip) Fitz-Amobi
- Zain Iqbal as Ravi Singh
- Henry Ashton as Max Hastings
- Asha Banks as Cara Ward
- Jude Morgan-Collie as Connor Reynolds
- Yali Topol Margalith as Lauren Gibson
- Yasmin Al-Khudhairi as Naomi Ward
- Carla Woodcock as Becca Bell
- Misia Butler as Stanley Forbes
- Eden Hambelton Davies as Jamie Reynolds
- Jack Rowan as Charlie Green
- Gary Beadle as Victor Amobi
- Anna Maxwell Martin as Leanne Amobi
- Jessica Webber as Nat Da Silva
Lauren (YALI TOPOL MARGALITH), Cara Ward (ASHA BANKS), Dolly Wells (Director) & Pip Fitz-Amobi (EMMA MYERS) in A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder. (BBC/Moonage Pictures/Joss Barratt)
Where Is It Filmed?
It may be set in Buckinghamshire – in the fictional, close-knit village of Little Kilton – but A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is actually filmed in Axe Bridge, a small town in Somerset. You can read all about it here.
Release Date
All episodes of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder will land on BBC iPlayer on 27 May 2026. Outside of the UK, all episodes will be available to stream on Netflix.
Pip Fitz-Amobi (EMMA MYERS) in A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder. (© BBC/Moonage Pictures/Sally Mais)
Will There Be A Season 3?
We think it’s very likely that a third season will follow, based on Holly Jackson’s third and final book in the trilogy, As Good As Dead.
WATCH
All episodes of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder are streaming now on Netflix. In the UK, the series is streaming exclusively on BBC iPlayer.
