Emma Myers dishes on A Good Girl's Guide to Murder's big reveals

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, much like the book it is based on, has a lot of surprises in store for viewers when they follow intrepid teen Pip Fitz-Amobi as she tries to solve a five-year-old cold case.

Pip launches her own investigation into the disappearance and apparent death of Andie Bell to prove that her boyfriend Sal Singh —who confessed and died by suicide— was not involved, and unravels many of her town's dark secrets as a result. The places that the show goes to will not be what you expect, and Pip star Emma Myers tells Yahoo UK of how much she enjoyed the plot twists in the series, as well as her thoughts on whodunnit.

"I have never played a character like Pip before and so I just instantly fell in love with her," Myers says of the show. "It was very daunting playing a character that people love so much already, you don't want to get it wrong, you want to do the book right."

Now the show has been out on BBC iPlayer for ten days, and is set to air on BBC Three soon, Myers is keen to dish on the show's biggest moments. So, be warned, this article contains spoilers for A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.

Pip's challenge to Max

The biggest reveal from the series, which is the same as the books, is who was involved in Andie's demise: Max Hastings (Henry Ashton), Elliot Ward (Mathew Baynton) and Becca Bell (Carla Woodcock).

Each played an integral role in the events leading up to Andie's death; Max purchasing Rohypnol from Andie meant he drugged and raped Andie's sister Becca, who was so distraught when her sister didn't seem to care about the assault that she pushed her during the confrontation. This exacerbated the injury she got whilst arguing with Elliot, a teacher at her school with whom she was having an affair.

It all begins with Max, and as his crimes are not limited to his assault of Becca Pip vows to take down in the finale. Myers says that she enjoyed working with Ashton the most of her co-stars, despite the dark paths their characters are forced down on screen.

"Honestly, the things that I shoot with Henry were some of the most fun because he is the sweetest guy ever I kid you not, he is so not like Max but it's so scary to watch him because it comes out of nowhere," Myers admits.

"He's a lovely guy, I had fun with him every time. It's always fun doing this baddie-goodie dynamic, he's just the pure evil of the show. But it was really fun, we had a lot of fun and he's a sweet guy, really good at what he does."

She adds: "I hope that if we continue on this show that we get some more scenes together because honestly those were, I think, the highlights of the show when you watch them."

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Reflecting on Pip and Max's future clash, should the show be renewed, Myers adds: "He needs to be stopped and she's going to be the one to do it. So I'm really excited, if we get to continue, to go head to head with him more."

Elliot Ward's warning for Pip

There is also a similar encounter between Pip and Elliot, who is revealed to have kidnapped a young woman after mistaking her for Andie and then kept her locked up in an attic for five years. After he is arrested, Pip goes to see him in police custody and the pair share an emotionally-charged scene about what it means to be a good person.

Myers reveals that while she was not meant to cry during the scene she was moved to tears time and again because of Baynton's depiction of Elliot: "Anytime I filmed a scene with Mathew that was confrontational I wasn't supposed to be crying but I always ended up crying anyways.

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"It's just because he's so good at portraying that, like he says in the show: 'everybody has a little dark seed inside of them'. He portrays that so well and he really puts it into place, I mean if you've read the books it's foreshadowing a little bit and I think it sets up [things well] for future seasons.

"That's a good thing to have in the back of your mind, like 'oh, that's what he's saying', so don't forget that. Those things are very integral to setting up future plot lines."

Reflecting on the Ghosts actor's performance in general, she adds: "The scenes we did together, especially when he's in the police station, were so good, he's so talented and also he's so funny and personable.

"He definitely portrays Elliot so well, he's got that pathetic vibe to him. He's just amazing to watch, he's so talented and he's been doing this for a very long time, so he's a great person to learn from. I think he's really good at playing that charismatic person that you wouldn't expect to have anything [he's] hiding."

What Myers did appreciate though was the way that the narrative examined the subject of violence against women without "glorifying" it: "I think the TV show definitely draws light to the subject, because it's still sort of an uncomfortable thing for people to talk about but I think the show does it in a good way where it makes people aware that this is an issue.

"A lot of things media struggles with glorifying violence against women, but I think this show did a really good job of highlighting the issue without glorifying it."

The Wednesday star went on: "We had intimacy coordinators on set anytime we had a scene that had any sort of content like that. But we're all people working on this, we all understand the gravity of these topics and these situations.

"We don't want to ever make light or make fun of it, so everybody is very sensible and very mindful of it. We all were just looking out for each other to make sure we all felt safe with what was going on. But we never ran into any issues with it because we understand that this stuff happens in real life, it's not just fictional."

Foreshadowing future seasons

Myers also weighs in on the clues and Easter eggs that foreshadow Jackson's future books, and set the stage for the series if it is renewed. One nod is the name drop of the Duct Tape Killer, or DTK, who Pip investigates in the third novel As Good As Dead.

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"I was honestly excited to see what they would do because I wanted a mention of the killer anywhere," Myers reveals. "I don't want to spoil anything obviously if people haven't read the books, but man I was so happy when I saw that they gave Jude [Morgan-Collie] that line.

"All of us were were like, 'oh, we're going to talk about it. We're going to talk about it'. But I think it was a good idea to put that in there because obviously people will point to Easter eggs and will get excited about them for future each seasons, if we do them."

Even if the series sets the stage for the third novel more so than the second book, Good Girl, Gone Bad, Myers reassures viewers that this doesn't mean the show won't adapt it: "I don't think any of us, if we were to do future seasons, expect to skip the second book.

"I think it's integral as well, and just because there aren't any references to it in season one, doesn't mean that we're going to skip it. I would definitely like to see that one adapted first before we do As Good As Dead because it's just as important to the rest of the story as As Good As Dead."

The hope, Myers reveals, is that the show continues to do well on BBC and on Netflix in the US that she and the cast can return to the characters. If they were to get the chance, the actor already knows what she's looking forward to most: "I’d love to see [Pip's] downfall, I just want us to adapt the rest of the books. I hate stories that are unfinished so I hope that we will be able to see it through to the end."

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is out now on BBC iPlayer, and will air weekly on BBC Three from Wednesday, 10 July.