A review by ruthie_the_librarian
The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

4.0

Although there is a lot of darkness in this story, I found there was enough humour as well, to lift me through.  I lived in Yorkshire in the 1980's, so much of the setting resonated with me, and I could easily imagine the characters.  I also really liked the idea of the list - it felt like something my friends and I would have done, and although Miv doesn't stick to her own deductions through the book (she seems to forget the ripper's accent requirements in her later suspicions) she is a child, so of course she's not going to figure things out logically.
There was a little part of me that felt it was just reaching a little too far in including so many different 'issues'...child abuse, domestic violence, racism, suicide, depression, and I felt that around halfway through the pace of the story slowed somewhat because of that.  But still, I cared about what was going to happen and the different characters involved.
With thanks to Net Galley for my copy.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Murder