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Make a list of all the suspicious people. Eliminate the innocent until there is just one left—the murderer.
Summer of 1979. In England, skinny jeans are in fashion and families gather around their TV screens. Twelve-year-old Maeve and Sharon have unusual holidays ahead. In their quiet town, a serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper is on the loose. The police have no leads; adults discuss the news in secret from the children, while the girls make their own list of suspects.
It includes all the “strange” residents—from the shop owner to the withdrawn teenager. People they know and people they don’t. Their investigation method is simple, but Maeve and Sharon end up learning more about their neighbors, the area, and one another than they planned.
What if the key to the mystery the girls are hunting leads to something even bigger? To the end of friendship, of childhood—or even of life...
BASED ON REAL EVENTS