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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Ending Explained: Who Is Responsible For Killing Andie Bell?
Pippa uncovers the truth about Andie's murder and Sal's framing by Elliot, her English teacher.
Disclaimer: This article contains major spoilers from A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.
In A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi takes on the case of a five-year-old murder that had very much left old wounds to the citizens of the town. Based on a best-selling Young Adult novel by Holly Jackson, the series follows the determination of Pippa in exposing facts about the case despite hindrances along the way. By the finale, she and her trusty sidekick Ravi Singh expose the truth behind the disappearance of Andie Bell and Sal Singh, revealing a dark web of deception and manipulation. Murders, blackmail, and determination form the series when complex cases are solved.
A brief on the story of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Andie disappeared five years ago, with her boyfriend Sal suspected of murdering her. Pippa never believed this, and soon uncovered that Sal was murdered too. In the final episode, Pippa learns it was Elliot Ward- her English teacher and best friend's dad- that committed the heinous act. He utilized his community's safety to his advantage to approach Sal, with fingers wrapped around Sal's throat, framing it as a suicide to throw suspicion off of himself in Andie's missing persons/murder case.
Pippa and Ravi discovered that Andie was having an affair with a "secret older guy." In the latest episode, Pippa discovers Elliot-the name he acquired among Andie's friend circle-had an illegal affair with Andie. If the police learned Elliot's identity, he would be a suspect or indicted on statutory rape charges, thereby framing an innocent Sal for the murder and bringing dishonor to the Singh family.
Sal's alibi for Andie's disappearance becomes debunked after his friends had lied to the police. Pippa discovers that Sal was indeed with Max Hastings, Jake Lawrence, and Naomi Ward on the night of Andie's disappearance, but an alibi for him states they tell the police he left earlier. Naomi reveals someone blackmailed them into saying it, and that the culprit is an English teacher. Trying to frame Sal, Elliot reads Naomi's diary to get blackmail material to actually help him find the truth.
It is disclosed that the three had been in a hit-and-run during the drunken night they were so irresponsibly out on the road with both alcohol and drugs in their system. Max had kept it under wraps by blackmailing a police officer, Dan da Silva (Jackson Bews), who like Elliot, had also committed statutory rape by sleeping with Andie when she was underage. The hit-and-run also calls back to The Great Gatsby, where Daisy is the culprit at fault but Gatsby takes the blame for his love, though he doesn't realize the cost of taking accountability.
While no one does take the fall in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, not only does it become relevant to lie about a crime and cover it up, but Pippa does decide to continue concealing this to protect Naomi and not cause her best friend Cara Ward to lose another family member.
Elliot is a known bad guy who has been involved in several criminal activities: statutory rape, murder, and blackmail. He kidnaps somebody 'accidentally', and it becomes clear that Pippa had followed him to the house of the Ward family, which he had sold. After being confronted, Elliot admits to having had an affair with Andie but is interrupted by noises coming from upstairs. The furious Pippa goes up to the attic in search of Andie and finds a girl exactly looking like her.
Just after Sal's murder, Elliot finds Isla once and immediately mistakes her for Andie. Realizing that wasn't Andie, he invited Isla to come and stay a night at his house and clean up as she was sleeping rough. With a face that showed trust, a job of a teacher, and two daughters to boast of, Isla instinctively trusted him, and agreed only for him to confess in a drunken state at night that he killed Sal, which led him to lock her up.
Through the years, he frequented the house to feed her, saying that he was going to tutor his daughters but he did not have the money to say that. Isola becomes almost collateral damage to the whole ordeal, being forcibly roped in by an Elliot wracked with guilt. The storyline is interwoven with Jane Eyre, a novel by Emily Brontë.
Jane finds that her master-turned-lover, Mr. Rochester, kept his first wife, who seduced him when he was younger because she was exotic, locked away. Post marriage, she was not the woman he thought he had married. This dynamic is flipped on its head with Isola uncovering Elliot's unhinged secrets. The story also works through an imbalance of power, considering Elliot manipulated the trust of both Sal and Isla alike, even after his crimes were accidentally revealed. This is a very powerfully dynamic aspect of the novel.
Who really killed Andie Bell?
Elliot may not necessarily be the one responsible for Andie's murder. Pippa discovers that Elliot was out of town when the actual murderer killed Pippa's dog. Andie had earlier gone to see Elliot to extort USD 5,000, to which Elliot refused and 'banged' Andie's head, giving her a serious head injury. However, the assault on Andie does not relate to her murder.
When she gets home, Pippa's sister Becca greets her face to face, and pushes Andie off. Pippa then takes her down to the body of Andie, which was found in an underground cave system, at the bottom of an abandoned shaft. The actual killer had also killed Pippa's dog.
Becca looked up to her sister, but generally shirked her responsibilities and went from party to party. At one of these parties, Becca got date raped when Max slipped a date-rape drug into her drink. Andie knew about this, sold Max the drug, got Becca Plan B afterwards, and refused to allow her to go to the police about it. This ultimately caused Becca to resent Andie and ultimately betray her.
Pippa connected the buyer's list to Max's secret social media account, "Tangot!ts," and finally made the connection to the assault. Pippa got roofied and was left at the mercy of Becca, but then Ravi and Cara came forward to save her. This story highlights the conflict between siblings and how all this can go wrong if responsibilities are not well attended to.
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