good girls guide to murder by holly Jackson takes place in Fairview where Andie bell was allegedly killed by her boyfriend sal singe. We find out at the end of the book that Andie bell wasn’t killed and was in a relationship with Elliot Ward a teacher at Fairveiw and threatening to out him if he stopped doing what she wanted. We are also told that Andie went to Elliots house one day and was upset about sal leaving for university. she began destroying paintings that Elliots wife had made a few days before she had died. Elliot pushed her away from them but pushing her towards his desk hitting her head. He ran to get the first aid kit but when he was back she was gone. Following the times Andie went missing Elliot began to panic and decided to kill Sal this is how the conversation with Elliot and Pip went:
Elliot: I called in sick for work and dropped the girls off at school. I waited outside, and when I saw sal alone in the parking lot I went up too talk to him. he wasn’t copping well with her disseverance. so I suggested that we go back to his house and have a chat about it. id planned to do it with a knife from the Singhs house. but then I found some sleeping pills in the bathroom and I decided to take him to the woods; I thought it would be kinder. I didn’t want his family to find him. we had coffee and I gave him the first three for his headache. I convinced him that we should go to the forest and look for and ourselves; that it would help his feeling of helplessness. he trusted me. he didn’t wonder why I hasdnt taken off my leather gloves. I took a plastic bag from their kitchen and walked out into the woods, and when we walked far enough into the woods. I had a penknife and held it up to his neck and forced him to swallow more. I said I was helping him that he wouldn’t be a suspect if it looked like he’d been attacked too. he swallowed a few more and then he started to struggle. I held him down and forced him to take more. when he’d started to get sleepy I held him and started to talk about Yale, about the amazing the librarys, how beautiful campus looks in spring just so he would fall asleep, thinking about something good when he fell asleep, when he lost consciousness I put the bag around his head and held his hand while he died.
pip: then u sent the confession text to his dad.
Elliot: yes.
pip: and Andies blood?
Elliot: it dried under my desk, I missed some when I had first cleaned, so I placed some under his nails with tweezers and put Andies phone in his pocket and I left him there.
Pip finds out the rest of the story and discovers and bell in the addict of Elliots old home where he had been keeping her but pip believes it’s not Andie.