A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Pip joins Cara and Naomi to carve pumpkins for Halloween and quickly learns that the old SIM card Naomi used to call Pip actually belongs to their father, Mr. Ward. She questions why Andie would have had his number written in her planner and remembers she referred to him as “an asshole” the week she disappeared. Pip considers that Mr. Ward might have simply been offering to tutor Andie, explaining why she had his number.

Pip asks Cara if she can get her laptop from her bedroom. She heads upstairs and grabs the laptop and then goes into Mr. Ward’s study, finding the option to see what has been printed through the computer’s control panel. Pip scrolls back to the date the note was put in her locker and sees that Mr. Ward printed something that day. She reprints the document and sees that it reads, “This is your final warning, Pippa. Walk away” (319).

It dawns on Pip that Mr. Ward is the anonymous threatener: “Elliot Ward was the killer. Andie’s killer. Sal’s. Barney’s” (320). Making her way back downstairs, Pip asks whether Mr. Ward is tutoring. Cara responds that he tutors Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and he probably just had to stay late at school.