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Jennie Godfrey

Biography

Jennie Godfrey

Jennie Godfrey was raised in West Yorkshire, and her debut novel, THE LIST OF SUSPICIOUS THINGS, is inspired by her childhood there in the 1970s. Jennie is from a mill-working family, but as the first of the generation born after the mills closed, she went to university and built a career in the corporate world. In 2020, she left and began to write. She is now a writer and part-time Waterstones bookseller and lives in the Somerset countryside.

Jennie Godfrey

Books by Jennie Godfrey

The List of Suspicious Things
by Jennie Godfrey - Fiction, Historical Fiction

It’s 1979 in Yorkshire, England, and 12-year-old Miv is panicking. Life has been complicated since her mom got sick, and now her dad is talking about wanting to move their family away from the town Miv has lived in her whole life --- because of the murders. Young women are dying, and no one knows who the culprit might be. But as far as Miv is concerned, leaving Yorkshire and her best friend, Sharon, simply isn't an option. Perhaps if she could solve the case of the disappearing women, they could stay after all. So Miv and Sharon decide to make a list: a list of all the suspicious people and things on their street. But their search for the truth reveals more secrets in their neighborhood, within their families --- and between each other --- than they ever thought possible.