Jennings was born and grew up in Birmingham, England. Jennings emigrated to Canada with her mother when she was seventeen. She studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Windsor, and an MA in English Literature at the University of Toronto. Jennings initially taught at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, and later practised as a psychotherapist. Jennings is best known as the author of the Detective Murdoch Series, which has been turned into a television series, the Murdoch Mysteries .As of 2019, her most recent novel, Heat Wave, introduces Murdoch's son as a police detective in 1936.

 

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