'A Good Girl's Guide to Murder' ending explained: Who killed Andie Bell? (2024)

Netflix‘s new series A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder follows English teen Pippa “Pip” Fitz-Amobi (Emma Myers) as she attempts to solve the mystery of who killed Andie Bell (India Lillie Davis). For five years, everyone in the fictional town of Little Kilton has assumed that Andie was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh (Rahul Patti). After all, he supposedly confessed to the crime, shortly before dying of suicide himself. However, Pip thinks Sal is innocent. She makes it her mission to figure out who actually killed Andie, framing Sal as the main suspect.

**Spoilers for all of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, now streaming on Netflix**

Over the course of six episodes of Netflix’s A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, we watch as Pip and Sal’s brother Ravi (Zain Iqbal) track a number of potential suspects, from creepy cop Daniel da Silva (Jackson Bews) and local drug dealers to even Sal himself. However the truth about who killed Andie Bell eventually bears out to be way more complicated than a simple open-shut case. Andie’s many secrets — be they an illicit affair with an older man to a side hustle selling roofies — wind up setting the stage for a super complicated conclusion.

As it happens, Sal Singh didn’t kill Andie Bell. In fact, he was murdered by someone covering their own tracks. And the truth about how and why Andie died is a complex web.

So how does A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder end? Who killed Andie Bell? And what’s next for Pip, Ravi, and the Little Kilton gang? Here’s everything you need to know about the ending of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder on Netflix…

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Ending Explained: Who Killed Andie Bell?

Dying to find out who did it? Well, come A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Episode 6, there’s actually some confusion on that score…

At the start of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Episode 5, Naomi Ward (Yasmin Al-Khudhairi) reveals to Pip that she, Max, and their friend all tanked Sal’s alibi because someone blackmailed them to. Basically, Sal’s buddies were wasted on New Year’s Eve and committed vehicular homicide. The mystery killer told the teens they would be busted for leaving a dead man in a car crash unless they told the police that Sal left their hangout in time to kill Andie Bell. Sal, however, was hanging out with them at the exact time of Andie’s death…and Naomi gives Pippa photo proof.

Armed with this evidence, Pip takes to social media to pressure the killer to reveal themselves. After all, she’s been repeatedly harassed by someone who doesn’t want her to continue with the case. This actually backfires, with Pip’s stalker killing her dog Barney! (WHY DID THE DOG HAVE TO DIE, Netflix?!?) When Naomi calls Pip to offer her condolences, our intrepid teen detective realizes she’s calling on the same phone number a mysterious “older man” Andie had dated left in a hotel guest book. Naomi explains that since her phone was broken by an irate Max, she’s had to adopt an old “brick” her dad, Elliott Ward (Matthew Baynton), left in a drawer. It’s the burner phone Elliott — aka the widower father of Pip’s BFF Cara (Asha Banks) and Pip’s favorite teacher!!! — used to have an affair with the then underaged Andie!!!

Pip uses her own phone to track where Elliott has been going when he’s allegedly “tutoring” mysterious students that never pay him. When she realizes that Elliott has gone to the Wards’ old home, she begins to suspect that the reason Andie’s body was never found is because her jealous older lover abducted her.

Andie tips Ravi off, calls the cops, and goes herself to confront Elliott. He admits to the affair, framing it as a mistake made while grieving his wife. He also claims he got into an argument with Andie. She wanted money for some reason and he refused to give it to her. He shoved her hard, but didn’t kill her.

Then, Andie notices that someone is clanging on pipes. She follows the noise to the attic and a frantic Elliott locks her in with the person who was signaling for help. It’s not Andie, but Isla (Georgia Lock). Before the police arrive to rescue the girls and arrest Elliott, Isla explains that Elliott took her in off the streets in the days after Andie’s death. When Isla thanked him for this, a drunken Elliott revealed he wasn’t a good person. In fact, he had murdered Sal Singh.

Elliott was the one who blackmailed his own daughter Naomi and her friends to lie to the police, opening the door to pin Andie’s death on Sal. Elliott was worried that if he was accused of killing Andie, he’d be sent to jail, leaving his motherless daughters alone.

The case appears to be solved.

However, Pip realizes that there’s no way that Elliott could have killed Barney as he was in Oxford with his daughters when the dog was kidnapped. After briefly looking at Andie’s controlling dad, Pip gets an interesting tip from Jesse (Oliver Wickham): Andie’s sister Becca (Carla Woodco*ck) was drugged with roofies that Andie sold sold to Max Hastings, who then raped Becca.

Pip finally pieces together what happened. Andie was truly in love with Sal and was selling drugs to make enough money to run away with him. When her father took this cash, she went to Elliott, hoping to blackmail him into giving her the money. They fought and he pushed her, causing a bloody blow to her head.

Andie went home, dazed by her injury, where Becca confronted her about the roofies. The sisters then argued and Becca shoved her. Andie’s head was struck once more and she collapsed. Becca watched Andie seize up and vomit blood, but did nothing to help her.

Becca then offers to take Pip to where she stashed Andie’s body in a sewer. However, when they get there, Becca reveals she has roofied Pip and plans on leaving Pip to die in the same sewer. Ravi and Cara arrive just in time with the police to save the day.

Will There Be A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Season 2?

Fans of Holly Jackson’s best-selling book, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, know that Pip’s journey continues in two sequels. Not only that, but the Netflix show ends with Pip telling Max Hastings that she is committed to making sure everyone he’s hurt gets justice. Ravi and Pip also finally kiss. (Weird that the latter matters more to me.)

So will there be A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Season 2? Well… we’ll see.

All the way back in 2023, the show’s executive producers, Matthew Read and Frith Tiplady, told Variety that while they’d like to keep the show going, they are hedging their bets.

“Season One covers the first novel and future seasons would look at the subsequent novels,” Read said.

“We, the BBC and ZDF hope that it will be a returning series,” Tiplady added. “But we also want to stress the season has a real end — I think audiences is getting a bit frustrated with not having a resolution.”

As of right now, there’s no official word on a second season of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, but it could definitely happen!