A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Series Similar to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

If you enjoyed A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Shining Girls

   2022 · Crime, Thriller, Supernatural · ended90% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   Shining Girls is a metaphysical thriller, which follows a Chicago reporter who survived a brutal assault only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker.

2. Payback

   2023 · Crime, Thriller · returning90% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   With an idyllic family lifestyle in the suburbs of Edinburgh, Lexie is unaware her husband, Jared, has been laundering Cal Morris' illegal earnings on a vast scale. Jared's every move is being monitored by financial investigators DC Jibran Khan and DCI Adam Guthrie, who are determined to use the Noble family to bring Cal Morris to justice. A partner in Jared's business, Lexie is forced into working for Cal, at the same time as the police net inexorably tightens. Soon Lexie finds herself walking a treacherous tightrope between Cal and the police in which her safety, and even her life, are in grave danger.

3. Code of Silence

   2025 · Crime, Thriller · returning89% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   Code of Silence introduces us to Deaf catering worker, Alison Woods. She's struggling to make ends meet, juggling two jobs, in a police canteen and a local bar, while also doing her best to support her Deaf mum, Julie. When DC Ashleigh Francis calls on Alison to lip read the conversations of some dangerous criminals, she is plunged into a new and exhilarating world.

4. Giri/Haji

   2019 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended88% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on BBC iPlayer.

   A Tokyo detective travels to London to look for his long lost younger brother, now involved with the Yakuza and wanted for the murder of a Japanese businessman. With the help of a young Japanese-British hustler who helps the detective navigate London, the mystery continues to unravel. His family's honour, and the fragile peace between the warring gangs back in Tokyo, is at stake.

5. Cross

   2024 · Crime, Thriller, Mystery · returning88% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   Based on NY Times Bestselling author James Patterson's #1 hero, Cross is a crime thriller that follows the investigations of brilliant forensic psychologist and DC Metro Detective Alex Cross. Together with his best friend and partner Detective John Sampson, Cross delves into the psyches of America's most insidious killers while fighting to protect his family from the dangers of the criminal world.

6. The Endgame

   2022 · Crime, Thriller · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile.

   A "high-stakes thriller," following Elena Federova, a "very recently captured" international arms dealer and criminal mastermind who can orchestrate many complicated and coordinated bank heists, even while in captivity, and Val Turner, the "principled, relentless and socially-outcast" FBI agent who will stop at nothing to foil Elena's plan.

7. MINDHUNTER

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.4).

   MINDHUNTER is based on the 1996 book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, by former special agent John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. For years, Douglas pursued some of the most notorious serial killers and rapists, developing profiling techniques to catch them. The book goes behind the scenes of some of his highest-profile cases, including the man who hunted prostitutes in Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer. To hone in his profiling methods Douglas interviewed and studied a skew of serial killers. Several book and TV characters have been based in part on him, including Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs, Will Graham on Hannibal and Jason Gideon on Criminal Minds.

8. Black Bird

   2022 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8).

   Inspired by actual events, when high school football hero, decorated policeman's son and convicted drug dealer Jimmy Keene is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison, he is given the choice of a lifetime — enter a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall, or stay where he is and serve his full sentence with no possibility of parole. Keene quickly realizes his only way out is to elicit a confession and find out where the bodies of several young girls are buried before Hall's appeal goes through. But is this suspected killer telling the truth? Or is it just another tale from a serial liar? 

9. Mano de hierro

   2024 · Crime, Thriller · ended87% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   Barcelona's sea port receives almost 6.000 containers per day. Goods from all over the world which, in just a year, can hide over 30.000 kilos of cocaine, making the port city one of Europe's most important entrances in the profitable business of drug trafficking. Joaquin Manchado knows well, he is the owner of the main terminal in the port of Barcelona. If someone wants to import an illegal load through the port they need to count with his support as well as the collaboration of all the criminal network he has shaped around him. However, an unexpected accident and the disappearance of an important load of cocaine will unchain a ruthless war riddled with murders and revenges.

10. Unbelievable

    2019 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended87% match

    Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8).

    The true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two female detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth.