The List of Suspicious Things

Author: Jennie Godfrey

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Crime & mystery | Fiction: special features

Published on 15^th February 2024 by Cornerstone (Hutchinson Heinemann) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 464 pages
224mm x 145mm x 39mm | 568g

***THE NUMBER 3 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***A BEST DEBUT OF 2024 BY BBC, RED, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING‘Such a fresh and interesting voice. Youll cry and you wont be able to stop reading’ MARIAN KEYESSuch a beautiful story about friendship, community and family and secrets and what’s going on underneathZOE BALLGripping and movingGUARDIANTo read it is to feel that little bit better about lifeELIZABETH DAY‘A touching paean to lost innocence and the comfort of friendships’THE TIMESA beautiful mystery with heartROB RINDERThis is a heart-warming bookEMMA HEALEYA gorgeous, page-turning bookI PAPERYorkshire, 1979Maggie Thatcher is prime minister, drainpipe jeans are in, and Miv is convinced that her dad wants to move their family Down South.

Because of the murders.

Leaving Yorkshire and her best friend Sharon simply isnt an option, no matter the dangers lurking round their way; or the strangeness at home that started the day Mivs mum stopped talking.

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 down their street. People they know. People they dont.

But their search for the truth reveals more secrets in their neighbourhood, within their families - and between each other - than they ever thought possible.

What if the real mystery Miv needs to solve is the one that lies much closer to home?THE PERFECT DEBUT NOVEL TO DISCUSS IN BOOK CLUBS***READER REVIEWS***Left a lump in my throat and a hole in my heartA book I wont forget for a whileA beautiful and emotional debut that I know will stay with me for a long timeA superb look at childhood, at growing up, at starting to see the world around you