![]() She learned that Reena had been an awkward outsider, desperate to be accepted by a tough clique of girls led by a diminutive queen bee named Josephine, who had been cycling in and out of foster care. Godfrey became captivated by the case and decided it would be the subject of her next book. ![]() While there, she caught a glimpse of the teenagers who had been charged with the murder of 14-year-old Reena Virk, and she was caught off guard by their youth and vulnerability. Godfrey was in her hometown, Victoria, British Columbia, where her novel was set, researching a juvenile detention center, because her troubled heroine would spend time in one. Her agent, Christy Fletcher, said the cause of her death, in a hospital, was complications of lung cancer. Rebecca Godfrey, who mapped the complex landscape of teenage transgression with exquisite detail and precise language in a novel, “The Torn Skirt,” and later in a nonfiction book, “Under the Bridge,” about a murder that became a cause célèbre in Canada, died on Oct. ![]()
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