The BBC and Moonage Pictures (The Pursuit of Love, Obsession, Bodies) have released a selection of first-look images from A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder, based on Holly Jackson’s smash hit novels and coming to BBC Three and BBC iPlayer later this year. Production was based at The Bottle Yard Studios and filming took place across the South West, including Bristol locations assisted by Bristol Film Office.

The eagerly anticipated six-part series stars Emma Myers (Wednesday), Anna Maxwell Martin (Motherland, A Spy Among Friends), Gary Beadle (Rye Lane, Small Axe), Mathew Baynton (Ghosts, Wonka) and newcomer Zain Iqbal. A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder is a co-production with ZDFneo for Germany.

Pip (Emma Myers) and Ravi (Zain Iqbal) lie on a bed staring at the ceiling
Pip (Emma Myers) and Ravi (Zain Iqbal) (Image: BBC/Moonage Pictures)
Pip (Emma Myers) is pictured in a forest, where black ribbons hang from a tree
Pip (Emma Myers) (Image: BBC/Moonage Pictures)

Five years ago schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend Sal Singh. Case closed. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But smart and single-minded Pip Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure and she’s determined to prove it. If Sal Singh isn’t a murderer and the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?

The new pictures give fans their first glimpse of Emma Myers and Zain Iqbal in character together as Pip and Ravi, alongside Pip’s close circle of friends, plus Anna Maxwell-Martin as Pip’s mum Leanne. Pip is also seen in her bedroom with the evidence board she puts together as she investigates the murder of Andie Bell, and in the woods where mysterious black ribbons hang from the trees.

Left to right: Cara (Asha Banks), Pip (Emma Myers), Lauren (Yali Topol Margolith), Zach (Raiko Gohara) and Connor (Jude Collie) walk down a road together
Cara (Asha Banks), Pip (Emma Myers), Lauren (Yali Topol Margolith), Zach (Raiko Gohara) and Connor (Jude Collie) (Image: BBC/Moonage Pictures)
Author Holly Jackson and cast members Raiko Gohara, Asha Banks, Yali Topol Margolith, Emma Myers and Jude Collie
Author Holly Jackson with cast members Raiko Gohara, Asha Banks, Yali Topol Margolith, Emma Myers and Jude Collie (Image: BBC/Moonage Pictures)

A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder will also feature rising stars Asha Banks (The Magic Flute) as Cara, Yali Topol Margalith (The Tattoist of Auschwitz) as Lauren, Jude Morgan-Collie (Here We Go) as Connor and Raiko Gohara (Get Lost) as Zach.

Anna Maxwell Martin sits at a table in character, resting her chin on one hand. There's a small glass of wine in front of her. She looks concerned.
Leanne (Anna Maxwell-Martin) (Image: BBC/Moonage Pictures)

Poppy Cogan is the lead writer of A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder (6 x 45’) and the show is produced by Florence Walker. Executive producers are Matthew Read, Matthew Bouch and Frith Tiplady for Moonage Pictures, with Lucy Richer and Danielle Scott-Haughton for the BBC, and Dolly Wells, Holly Jackson and Poppy Cogan. BBC Studios, who have a minority investment stake in Moonage Pictures, are handling international distribution of the series.

A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder will air on BBC Three and iPlayer later this year.