Elliot Ward

Isobel Ward (Wife)✝

Elliot Ward is a key character to the book A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, and a side character in the series.

## Personality

Elliot Ward was deemed a father figure by Pip, with his daughter, Cara Ward, being best friends with each other.

### A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

;SPOILERS FOR ALL OF A GOOD GIRLS GUID TO MURDER! DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN"T FINISHED THE BOOK: After Pip decides to take on the 5 year old Andie Bell/Sal Singh case for her A-Level EPQ Project, Pip decides to investigate multiple people and eventually comes to the dreadful conclusion that her own best friend's dad was the one who killed Sal, in an attempt to protect himself, and that he was also the secret person sending her threats to stop investigating. This is because Elliot had a wife in his past named Isobel, leaving him a single dad. When Andie Bell, a student in the same school he was teaching in, starts showing attention to Elliot, he caves in, and said that the attention felt nice. Elliot loses his self control and ends up buying a SIM card to secretly talk to Andie. Andie then starts suggesting to "meet outside of school", to which Elliot refuses. But in the end, they slept together in the Ivy House Hotel, located in Chalfont. After realizing what he's done, Elliot tries to call off the relationship to which Andie refuses to let him. She then tries to threaten Elliot, saying that she "hid a naked picture of herself" in his classroom. The picture is later found by Max Hastings. Nevertheless, Elliot then proceeds to meet with Andie for the second time in the same location. Elliot expresses to Andie that he didn’t care if he were to be turned in by the latter, and Andie responded by saying she was going to "ruin him" if he didn't do what she wanted.

After a student, Nat da Silva, starts to unintentionally threaten Andie by merely being pretty, Andie then starts to torment Nat, eventually posting a video online about Nat which Elliot finds. Elliot reports the video to her dad, and says if her behavior doesn't improve then he could have her expelled. Enraged, Andie then turns up to Elliots house which ends in her trying to destroy Isobel's paintings. Elliot, in an attempt to stop her, pushes her, and Andie ends up hitting her head on a desk causing her to lose consciousness. Elliot, in a panic, leaves the room to get a first-aid kit to help her bleeding head. When he returns, Andie is no longer there and has left the house to return to her own home. Andie does not die until she gets into an argument with her sister, Becca Bell, over the formers drug distribution, causing Becca to get both drugged and raped by Max Hastings. Later on, when Andie is reported missing, Elliot realizes he may have accidentally killed her. In an attempt to save his daughter, and himself, he frames Sal Singh by drugging and suffocating him. To get rid of Sal's alibi, Elliot blackmails Sal's friend (presumably Max) to lie about the time they saw Sal on the night of the incident.

Later, on July, two months after the incident, Elliot finds Isla Jordan who he mistakes for being the already dead Andie. He takes her in, and Isla, having mental disabilities, believed along with Elliot that she was Andie.

It's important to note that since only Elliot's account on what happened are shown in the book, the actually events and way things happened are all very unreliable-since Elliot himself is a very unreliable narrator. This is most evident by him kidnapping of a random girl after thinking it was Andie, but it's also more subtly shown through the various excuses he makes for himself and his behavior. For example, during his confession he blames a 17 year old Andie for "seducing him" despite him having more power in the relationship since he was an adult and her teacher. He also excuses his actions by saying he did them to protect his daughters while simultaneously having traumatized his eldest daughter by murdering her best friend and forcing her to be an unwilling accomplice when he blackmailed her into helping him.

Pip uncovered the truth through Elliot himself, and ended up putting him in jail too.