Poppy Denby » CWA Historical Dagger http://www.poppydenby.com Poppy Denby investigates Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:50:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 CWA Dagger Awards http://www.poppydenby.com/blog/2016/10/cwa-dagger-awards/ http://www.poppydenby.com/blog/2016/10/cwa-dagger-awards/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:12:39 +0000 http://www.poppydenby.com/?p=410 Continue reading CWA Dagger Awards →]]>

This week I am back at my desk after a whirlwind week in London where I went to attend a gala awards dinner, hosted by the Crime Writers’ Association. The Jazz Files did not win the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger award. It was pipped at the post by the very worthy Stasi Child by David Young. But what a fantastic night we had! A gang from my publishers’ Lion Hudson were there to cheer Poppy along and my husband, Rodney, came down from Newcastle with me.

Me and editor Jessica Tinker in our flapulous 1920s gear.
Me and editor Jessica Tinker in our flapulous 1920s gear.
Illustrious company. The Jazz Files alongside fellow nominees AJ Wright’s Striking Murder (wonderful book) and David Young’s Stasi Child (a worthy winner).
Illustrious company. The Jazz Files alongside fellow nominees AJ Wright’s Striking Murder (wonderful book) and David Young’s Stasi Child (a worthy winner).
]]> http://www.poppydenby.com/blog/2016/10/cwa-dagger-awards/feed/ 0 Happy publication day for The Kill Fee! http://www.poppydenby.com/blog/2016/09/happy-publication-day-for-the-kill-fee/ http://www.poppydenby.com/blog/2016/09/happy-publication-day-for-the-kill-fee/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2016 08:27:07 +0000 http://www.poppydenby.com/?p=384 Continue reading Happy publication day for The Kill Fee! →]]> champagneThere is lots of celebration here in Poppydenbyland as Poppy’s latest adventure, The Kill Fee, is published today in the UK. Friends of Poppy in the USA will sadly have to wait until November – or order today from the UK site!

In this adventure Poppy is hot on the trail of a jewel thief and gets caught up in a murderous plot to kill off White Russian aristocrats. Dark secrets from the Russian Revolution surface in the jazz clubs and theatres of London 1920. Can Poppy track down the culprit before more more people die?

The Kill Fee is the second book in the Poppy Denby Investigates series. Book 1, The Jazz Files, has been nominated as one of the best historical crime novels published in the UK in 2015/16 and is up for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger Award.

Lovereading.uk have described the book as:

‘An atmospheric, lively romp through 1920 in this wonderfully blended mix of crime fiction and historical fact […]The Kill Fee, full of the dastardly and dazzling, just roars along; it is a thoroughly captivating and entertaining read.’

Click here to get your paws on The Kill Fee.

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