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A break from Scotland and a rant.

Elena Tucker
5 min readJan 6, 2025

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Zai Iqbal, who plays Ravi and Emma Myers, who plays Pip

For reasons I am working through in therapy, I am having some trouble writing about Scotland. So, I’m taking a little break from that and have written a blog about more sure and less emotionally fraught subject — TV. But it started out as a book request.

By the time the book I requested from the library came, I was two episodes deep into the TV show, and when I started to read the book, I discovered that it was easier to just watch the show. I’m not saying that because I’m lazy. To be honest, I am incredibly lazy, but I am also a voracious reader and usually prefer to read books rather than “just watch the movie.” I am saying it because the book consists of clever devices such as police reports, old and new interviews, photographs, etc. In other words, very visual stuff. The exact stuff that the show consists of. It just made more sense to watch the show.

So, I settled back on my comfortable place on the coach and began to enjoy Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. And it was, indeed, enjoyable. The cute as a button, wide-eyed teenage protagonist with a cute as a button name of Pip, sets out to investigate a disappearance of a local girl and an apparent confession and then suicide of her boyfriend. The boyfriend comes from the only Muslim family in the small village, so that element introduces a slight element of racism into the show. I say slight, since Pip’s…

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Elena Tucker
Elena Tucker

Written by Elena Tucker

Writer and storyteller, immigrant, wife, mom, knitter, collector of jokes, lover of cheap, sweet wine.

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