Summary

NOTE: Mary Kubica has written The Good Girl as a collection of several short narratives. This study guide follows the order of the book and uses section numbers to group the narratives in the Chapter Summaries/Analyses.

(Eve Before) - Eve Dennett gets a call from a friend of Mia’s who also works with her, Ayanna Jackson. Ayanna is worried because Mia did not come to work and she cannot reach her at home or on her cell phone. Eve is skeptical that anything is really wrong and thinks that she will show up. As Ayanna tells her all that she has done to try to find Mia, Eve starts to feel that something really is wrong.

(Gave Before) - Gabe Hoffman, a detective who has been assigned to Mia’s missing persons case goes to the Dennett's...