[2] Jennings grew up knowing little of her father, who was killed in action during World War II.
[1][3][5] Jennings initially taught in the English department at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute and later practiced as a psychotherapist.
[1] As of 2019, her most recent novel, Heat Wave, introduces Murdoch's son as a police detective in 1936.
[7] The television drama Bomb Girls was based on a concept Jennings developed.
[11] John Wilson Murray, who was appointed as Ontario's first government detective in 1875, "was an important inspiration" for Jennings and led to the development of the character William Murdoch.