51 pages 1 hour read

Holly Jackson

As Good As Dead

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

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Part 1, Chapters 22-29Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 1, Chapters 22-25 Summary

That evening, Pip shows Andie’s correspondence to Ravi. Since his brother was killed because of his involvement with Andie, the message hits him hard. Pip says of Andie, “Andie didn’t survive. It wasn’t DT who killed her, but it was everything she tried to do to escape him that did. Howie Bowers. Max Hastings. Elliot Ward. Becca. This is why it all happened. Everything. Full circle” (182). The DT Killer is at the center of the crimes that Pip has been investigating for two years.

Pip next interviews Detective Nolan, a retired officer who took Billy’s confession. He is still convinced that the young man is the DT Killer and that Billy only pretended to find the victim’s body to insert himself into the investigation. Nolan casually mentions that he briefly suspected a young officer from Fairview who also became unusually curious about the case— Daniel Da Silva.

Exhausted, Pip falls asleep at her desk that night and is awakened by the sound of her printer. It spews out a message from her stalker: “Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? P.s. I learned this trick from you, season 1 episode 5.