Category: Poppy Denby

CWA Historical Dagger shortlist

I am delighted to hear that The Jazz Files is on the short list for this year’s Crime Writers’ Association Endeavour Historical Dagger award. The Daggers are sort of the Baftas of British crime writing. The winner will be announced at a swanky dinner in London on 11 October. In the meantime Poppy Denby and I are toasting each other with pink champagne and wondering what to wear!

This is what the judging panel said about the book:

“This first entry in a new series featuring a female journalist in 1920s London is, like its heroine, buoyant and stylish but with a core of steel. Poppy Denby arrives in London from the north of England determined to make it as a journalist and gets her chance when she has to finish a murdered reporter’s investigation into the death of a suffragette. The Roaring Twenties are beautifully evoked.” – the CWA judging panel http://thecwa.co.uk/the-jazz-files/

If you haven’t already read The Jazz Files, why not remedy that now? The sequel, The Kill Fee, will be coming out on 16 September. You can click on the book covers on the right hand side of this page to buy them. Cheers!

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The Kill Fee available to pre-order

If you loved reading about Poppy and her friends in The Jazz Files you will be delighted that book 2 in the series, The Kill Fee, is now available for pre-order. It will be published in September (UK) and November (USA).

“Do you know who that is, Poppy?” asked Delilah
“I do indeed.”
“So what does it feel like to be in the arms of an assassin?”

The Kill Fee - Fiona Veitch Smith

Poppy Denby’s star is on the rise. Now the Arts and Entertainment Editor at The Daily Globe, she covers a glamorous exhibition of Russian Art at the Crystal Palace. During the exhibition a shot rings out, leaving an injured guard and an empty pedestal in the place of the largest Fabergé Egg in the collection. The egg itself is valuable, but more so are the secrets contained within – secrets that could destroy the royal families of Europe.

Suspects are aplenty and Poppy, her editor Rollo, and the other staff of the Globe are delighted to be once again in the middle of a sensational story. When they are offered a ‘kill fee’ to drop the story, they know they are onto something explosive. But soon the investigation takes a dark turn when someone connected to the exhibition is murdered and an employee of the newspaper becomes a suspect. The race is on to find the egg before the killer strikes again…

Pre-order your copy here!

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Crime Writers Association Dagger Nomination

I am over the moon to hear that my debut historical crime novel, The Jazz Files, has been longlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Crime book of the year. I’m one of 10 nominees. Totally unexpected. I’m humbled and delighted

Click here to see all ten nominees

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The Benton Bookworms love the Jazz Files

I was delighted the other week to be invited to speak to a group of book lovers who have been reading The Jazz Files for their monthly book group. There were cocktails in the kitchen then nibbles and cheesecake (!) while they asked me all sorts of questions about the book and how I came about writing it. Rollo was their favourite character and they say that they could see Peter Dinklage playing him in a TV adaptation. Miriam Margolyes was the unanimous choice for Aunt Dot. Then I gave them a sneak peak of book two in the series, The Kill Fee, and of course left them on a cliff hanger. Thank you ladies, it was fun! If you have a book club in the Tyne & Wear area that you would like me to visit, just drop me a line!

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A dead ferret called Arthur

It’s been a few months since I made the promo film for Poppy Denby’s debut in The Jazz Files. If you want to see it pop over to www.poppydenby.com However, that’s exactly what I’m talking about in my guest article on the Crime Readers’ Association blog. That and a dead ferret called Arthur.

Two corpses. In the end I couldn’t bring myself to wear it (you can see how happy I was) and Arthur does not appear in the final film.

 

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