List of suspicious items

When the police can't cope, it's up to a quirky teenage investigator

Yorkshire, 1979. Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister, bell-bottom jeans are just in and twelve-year-old Miv is convinced her father wants to move the whole family south. Because of the murders.

But leaving Yorkshire and her best friend Sharon is simply not an option for her, regardless of the danger, lurking in the vicinity, or the weirdness at home, that started on the day when Miva's mother stopped talking. Miv hatches a plan - if she can solve the serial killer case, maybe they can stay and not move...

So Miv and Sharon decide to make a list: a list of all the suspicious people and things on their street. People they know. People they don't know. Things that break out of the everyday. However, their investigation soon uncovers some secrets in their neighborhood, in their families, and even between their friends.

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This extremely tender, warm, real and evocative book will always remain in my heart.
— Daisy Buchanan, writer

The author manages to brilliantly set this gripping and moving story in a horrific episode of recent history without ever making light of anything, distracting from the original crimes, or minimizing their lasting impact.
— The Guardian

From that day on, the Ripper lurked everywhere. At school we didn't play normal wanking anymore, but "Ripper", which was much scarier. The boys in our class only buttoned their shiny rain jackets at the neck, and when they ran around, the jackets fluttered around them like the wings of birds of prey. They flew around the playground chasing the prettiest girls, including my best friend Sharon, and they ran screaming from them. I didn't care much for his victims, but then 19-year-old Josephine Whitaker, a building society clerk, was killed a few days before the election...
— excerpt from the book