Kill Joy, by Holly Jackson, is a novella of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. This book is about Pip (the main character) and a couple of her friends who host a fake murder mystery night. Pip is deciding what her Capstone project will be and is wanting to solve the case that happened in her town 5 years ago, where a well known girl in town is murder and everyone thinks its her boyfriend who did it. Since she is already interested in the solving cases topic, she is very excited and thinks she will be great at this game night.
“And it had been good, right up until the end. The whole world outside this house had disappeared; it had been just Pip and her mind and a problem to solve. Exactly the way she liked it. Exactly when she was most herself. But she’d been wrong. Pip hated being wrong.” (p.113)
In this quotation she realizes that she was wrong about who killed the person in their fake case. She was questioning whether she should do the “closed” case in her town for her senior project. This quotation is saying how she is becoming unconfident in her solving abilities and wonders how well she will be able to complete her project.