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A Good Girls Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson
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mystery cozy mystery with dark twists past tense third limited POV ~413 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

tense oppressive psychological

A dark mystery. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 85
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 80
intimateepic

Content

Violence 80%
noneextreme
Sexual content 30%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 20%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count103,308
Page count~413 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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