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Max Hastings is one of the three overarching antagonists (alongside Elliot Ward and Andie Bell) of the novel A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and its Netflix series adaptation of the same name. Hastings is a bad boy socialite guilty of multiple crimes hanging over the murder cases of Andie Bell and Sal Singh.
In the series, he was portrayed by Henry Ashton.
Biography[]
In the novels[]
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder[]
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Good Girl Bad Blood[]
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As Good As Dead[]
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In the series[]
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Hastings and his family used blackmail and connections throughout the town to make his crimes go away. When Hastings severely injured a man in a car accident while Hastings drove drunk, he called Officer Daniel da Silva to be the first on scene and bury his involvement. He used the knowledge that Dan slept with Andie when she was a teen to make him go along with it.
Hastings would also attend Calamity parties, where he'd purchase roofies. He additionally leaked the nude photos of one of Andie's friends, Nat da Silva. At one party, he spiked the drink of Andie's sister Becca and raped her, Andie herself having sold the drugs for the money she needed to elope with Sal, her boyfriend. This would cause Becca to shove Andie, making Andie hit her head, killing her.
When Pip Fitz-Amobi was investigating Andie's murder for her EPQ, she questioned Hastings. He made her take a shot for each ask, and he let slip that he and his friends were the alibi for Sal, who was suspected of Andie's murder and was later murdered himself in a staged suicide. Pip later lied her way into the Hastings estate to look for evidence, and he caught her after he was done showering with a scanty photo of Andie he hid in his room. When Pip confronted him about her fighting with Sal before she died, Hastings admitted Andie sold drugs, especially at Calamity parties, and that he was a customer.
One particular friend of Hastings, Naomi Ward, Pip's friend Cara's older sister, led Pip herself to Hastings' Instagram account, "Tangotits". It showed Sal took a picture of the friends the night Andie was murdered, so he was innocent of killing her. Pip angrily confronted Naomi, and she admitted Hastings, she, and their friends were blackmailed with knowledge of the car crash if they didn't wipe all their posts that gave Sal his alibi. Hastings, horrified Naomi hid from him he forgot the one picture, threw her phone and swore at Pip, saying the group of friends would go down together if Hastings were ratted out.
It was later found out Cara's and Naomi's father Elliot Ward was one of Andie's two killers and the killer of Sal, but Pip was looking for the second killer, who murdered her dog Barney. Jesse Walker, an employee of Andie's and Becca's father Jason, told Pip Becca was raped. When Pip, who had Andie's list of drug customers, realized she listed Hastings roofie purchases under his account's initials, Pip angrily called Hastings and recorded the confrontation. He smugly denied absence of consent when raping Becca, so Pip hung up.
She realized Becca dealt the fatal blow to Andie when Pip realized Becca drove Andie's car with her body in it, Becca having fought her after finding out she supplied the roofies to Hastings. After Pip was rescued from Becca, she went to Hastings and told him she'd make sure she'd take him to justice for his crimes, leaving his fate ambiguous.
Trivia[]
- Hastings is inspired by multiple real-life and fictional criminals:
- Michael Skekel, a member of the Kennedy family who, due to his status, wasn't convicted by years of delay for the murder of Martha Moxley.
- Dick Casablancas, the overarching antagonist of Veronica Mars, a socialite who was guilty of multiple crimes in his life skated by for years, including ordering his brother Cassidy to rape the namesake protagonist and bombing his own hotel.
- Bryce Walker, the overarching protagonist of the Jay Asher novel and subsequent Netflix series adaptation Thirteen Reasons Why. Walker was a high school serial rapist of his classmates, who traumatized many people around him into the ensuing events surrounding protagonist Hannah Baker's suicide. In the series, he was killed as retribution for his crimes.
- Barry Cox, the protagonistic villain of the Lois Duncan novel and subsequent film adaptation I Know What You Did Last Summer; Cox and his friends covered up hitting and killing someone with their car, then are stalked in a series of murder attempts by someone who discovered the truth.
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