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Netflix gives a first look at the star crime mystery series on Wednesday

By Sckylar Gibby-Brown | Published

Meanwhile, Emma Myers has been keeping busy Wednesday Seasons 1 and 2. Just as the 22-year-old actress heads to Ireland to film the second season of the Netflix hit, the streaming platform released a first look at Myers' new show. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder based on the book series by Holly Jackson. The series follows Myers' character Pip, a high school student who is dissatisfied with the investigation into the murder of another student. She takes matters into her own hands and investigates the murder herself.

…with three mysteries waiting to be solved and the talented Emma Myers leading the way, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is preparing to be this generation's version Veronica Mars

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder follows the first book in the Jackson series in six 45-minute episodes. Two additional seasons are planned to continue the events of Jackson's second and third books. However, Frith Tiplady, one of the show's executive producers, has stressed that although more seasons are planned, the first season will have a hard ending as the mystery is solved.

While the teaser for A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Although it doesn't show us much, readers of the book series may recognize the intriguing scene as a moment from the book, in which Pip and her friends attend a party during the investigation. It's a pivotal event that sets the investigation in motion and propels Pip in the right direction after discovering some important clues.

With three mysteries waiting to be solved and the talented Emma Myers leading the way, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is preparing to be this generation's version Veronica Mars, just like Veronica was the millennial version of Nancy Drew. It will be interesting to see how Myers plays Pip and whether she will be dark and tormented like Kristen Bell's Veronica, peppy and quirky like Nancy Drew, or whether the series will stick to the books and portray Pip as intelligent, loyal and kind conciliatory. No matter what happens, it will be great to see Myers' range expand from the colorful and peppy Enid she plays Wednesday.

While the teaser for A Good Girl's Guide to Murder doesn't show us much, readers of the book series may recognize the intriguing scene as a moment from the book where Pip and her friends attend a party…

Alongside Emma Myers, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Zain Iqbal plays Ravi Singh, the supporting protagonist of the series and Pip's friend. Ravi's brother Sal is believed to have killed Andie Bell before killing himself, but Pip and Ravi both believe Sal is innocent, leading them to investigate the murder themselves. The series also stars India Lillie Davies as Andie, Rahul Pattni as Sal, Asha Banks, Yali Topol Margalith, Jude Morgan-Collie and Raiko Gohara.

Since A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is produced by the BBC, production stops due to the Hollywood strikes in the USA were avoided and production took place in summer 2023

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is a BBC series created by Poppy Cogan and directed by Dolly Wells for BBC Three. The series is distributed on Netflix in the US and by Stan in Australia.

Since A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is produced by the BBC, production stops due to the Hollywood strikes in the USA were avoided and production took place in Bristol in the summer of 2023. The series is due to be released in the UK in July and will be available to stream on Netflix in the US soon after.