A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Pip and Ravi make their way through the house to Andie’s room. In Andie’s wardrobe, Ravi locates the loose floorboard but finds nothing underneath it. Perhaps, Ravi surmises, someone knew where it was hidden and took it after she disappeared.

Pip makes her way over to Andie’s desk, where her Fairview High School academic planner sits. Paging through it, she notices strange, random letters with times scribbled next to them. Pip remembers what Howie told Andie about using codes for business. Pip takes pictures of each page of the planner from February to April 2014.

The two hear the front door slam, and they throw themselves back into the wardrobe. Pip hears someone enter the room and talk to the family cat, and she realizes it is Becca. Becca ushers the cat out of Andie’s room, and Pip and Ravi hear the front door slam once again.

Capstone Project Log—Entry 25 includes photographs of Andie’s planner pages. In Pip’s notes, she attempts to decipher some of the codes. She is puzzled by an entry that reads, “IV @ 8” (206). There is also a phone number that has been scribbled out with a 475 area code. Pip writes out nine possible number combinations based on what she can gather.