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I’m honoured to be the featured author in this month’s Writer’s Narrative Magazine discussing all things historical fiction – and there are reviews of A Front-Page Murder and The Penford Manor Murders (so one each for Poppy and Clara!). It’s a chock-full edition with far more than just little old me. If you don’t already subscribe, do so. It’s free! You can read it here.
It’s open season at Penford Manor in Northumberland – and someone has murder in their sights…
Miss Clara Vale returns in ‘The Penford Manor Murders’ by Fiona Veitch Smith on 15th April!
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Poppy Denby is back! In this final book in the current series Poppy heads to Oxford to investigate the mysterious death of an Oxford scientist, a Somerville College graduate who is found dead in the History of Science Museum. But ghosts from Poppy’s past haunt her and her ‘happy ever after’ with Daniel may soon fall apart. Will Poppy unmask the villain and save her love life all at the same time?
Murder of an Oxford Scientist (previously published as The Crystal Crypt) is out now in ebook and paperback (still in audio as The Crystal Crypt). The gorgeous cover is by Lisa Brewster. And yes, that is a real 1922 Remington portable typewriter! (it’s mine!). Buy here now!
I’m chuffed to tell you that the first in the Poppy Denby Investigates series, A Front-Page Murder (previously The Jazz Files), will be translated into Bulgarian! I have just signed with Soft Press Publishing in Bulgaria. The book will be translated and released in 2026. Chestito! (Google tells me that’s congratulations in Bulgarian).
It’s 1924. Poppy Denby, Fleet Street journalist, is hoping for a few weeks off, visiting her family in Newcastle upon Tyne. She’s reluctantly roped into filling in for the publicist of a renowned artist who, inconveniently, is then murdered on Poppy’s watch – at the Laing Art Gallery. ‘Murder at the Art Gallery’, #5 in the Poppy Denby Investigates series, is out now! https://loom.ly/gdhqLcY
(This was formerly published as The Art Fiasco by Lion Fiction. The audiobook by WF Howes is still under that name.)
The project that I was working on over the summer – the Short History of Beatrix Potter – is now available on BBC Sounds. If you don’t have access to BBC Sounds, you can find it on the Noiser website https://www.noiser.com/short-history-of or wherever you get your podcasts! Beatrix’s story is an inspirational one. Enjoy!
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