Random House Children's Books, 2023 cover
Cover of the Random House Children's Books, 2023 edition of this book. The Farshore 2021 jacket has not been photographed yet.
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Kill Joy, the prequel novella to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, was written for World Book Day 2021 and issued by Electric Monkey on 18 February 2021 as one of the £1 World Book Day titles, alongside an ebook. The first issue is the slim World Book Day paperback with World Book Day branding. The Electric Monkey (HarperCollins) paperback of 4 August 2022, ISBN 9780008560713, £7.99, states that it was previously published in 2021 as a World Book Day title and is a later edition. The Delacorte Press paperback of 28 February 2023 (ISBN 9780593426210, $12.99) is the first US edition.
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