The daughter of David Godfrey, a co-founder of House of Anansi Press and mystery writer Ellen Godfrey, Rebecca Godfrey was born in Toronto. It was a finalist for the 2002 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Prior to that book release, Godfrey had also fit in time to complete the earlier manuscript for her debut novel, The Torn Skirt (HarperFlamingo, 2001) about a sheltered teenager exposed to the Victoria underworld. It received the second annual $25,000 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction in 2006. It diverted Godfrey on a new path, and she completed more than 300 interviews for what would be her bestselling crime investigation, Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk (HarperCollins, 2005). “I was just stunned because the girls all looked like normal, cool, young teenage girls, not particularly like killers.” “I went home soon after and went into the prison,” Godfrey said in an article for Interview magazine. Rebecca Godfrey was working in New York City in the late 1990s and writing her first novel about teen girls in her hometown of Victoria when friends began calling to inform her of a murder in Victoria – a fourteen-year-old girl had been brutally beaten by a gang of her classmates.
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