The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

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Yorkshire, 1979

Maggie 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 isn’t an option, no matter the dangers lurking round their way; or the strangeness at home that started the day Miv’s 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 don’t.

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?

This book will be discussed at our meeting on 18 August 2025

Coming soon to the Burton Book Club…

  • The Little Shop of Found Things, Paula Brackston
  • The Glassmaker, Tracy Chevalier
  • in this month we each read a different title by Jane Austen in celebration of 250 years since her birth. Take your pick from: Sense and Sensibility | Pride and Prejudice | Mansfield Park | Emma | Northanger Abbey | Persuasion | or one of her unfinished novels or the novella
  • Bitter Orange, Claire Fuller

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