Today I am featured in the rather splendid Historia Magazine, talking about researching and making vintage fashion connected to my 1920s and 30s murder mysteries. If you’re curious about how I got started, and some of the resources I use, do have a read. https://www.historiamag.com/fashion-research-historical-novels/

For folk in the Northumberland area, I’m running a murder mystery evening at the Little Felton Book Festival tonight! There’ll be a chance to exercise those little grey cells and figure out whodunnit in a mystery written especially for the festival, and then a Q&A with me about my writing process. I’ll also be reading from my new book, The Penford Manor Murders! There’s a bar on site too. Tickets only £10 and profits go to the local Felton school. Period dress optional!

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!

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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.)

As an author I travel to a lot of festivals and events in far-flung places. So it’s always a treat to have a crime festival right on my doorstep! And not just any festival, but one of the best in the country. I was delighted this year to appear on the Cosy Crime & Golden Age panel at Newcastle Noir’s 10th anniversary at Newcastle City Library. With me were Golden Age mystery novelist Tom Mead (the Spector Locked-Room Mysteries) and contemporary cosy writer Antony Johnston (the Dogsitter Detective). We were interviewed by the fabulous Kitty Murphy, who writes the Dublin Drag Mysteries. Thanks to the incredible Jacky Collins (aka Dr Noir) for running the whole show, warmly and professionally. May there be many more!