Poppy Denby » Embla Books 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 Poppy Denby gets a new publisher – and a fresh new look! http://www.poppydenby.com/blog/2024/09/poppy-denby-gets-a-new-publisher-and-a-fresh-new-look/ http://www.poppydenby.com/blog/2024/09/poppy-denby-gets-a-new-publisher-and-a-fresh-new-look/#comments Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:45:56 +0000 http://www.poppydenby.com/?p=734 Continue reading Poppy Denby gets a new publisher – and a fresh new look! →]]> Front Page murder cover

I am delighted to announce that the Poppy Denby Investigates books are going to be re-published with new titles and covers by Embla Books (an imprint of Bonnier Books UK).

The first in the series, formerly The Jazz Files, is now called A Front-Page Murder and is available now! Order your copy here.

The next books will be released one a month for the next five months. They are:

Murder at the Old Vic Theatre  (formerly The Kill Fee) – October 2024

Murder on Lexington Avenue (formerly The Death Beat) – November 2024

Murder at Winterton Hall (formerly The Cairo Brief) – December 2024

Murder at the Art Gallery (formerly The Art Fiasco) – January 2025

Murder of an Oxford Scientist (formerly The Crystal Crypt) – February 2025

Please note: the audio version of each is currently only available under the old name. 

]]> http://www.poppydenby.com/blog/2024/09/poppy-denby-gets-a-new-publisher-and-a-fresh-new-look/feed/ 0 Goodbye Poppy Denby … hello Clara Vale http://www.poppydenby.com/blog/2023/02/goodbye-poppy-hello-clara/ http://www.poppydenby.com/blog/2023/02/goodbye-poppy-hello-clara/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2023 11:17:54 +0000 http://www.poppydenby.com/?p=709 Continue reading Goodbye Poppy Denby … hello Clara Vale →]]> Many Poppy fans have contacted me to ask if there will be another Poppy book out soon. The answer is sadly ‘no’. The publisher has decided not to continue with the series, so The Crystal Crypt will be the last Poppy book – for now. I do hope in the future to pick up the series again, but at the moment, that is not possible. I am very sad about this, knowing how much Poppy is loved, and knowing how much I have loved creating her. Thank you to all my readers and listeners for your support over the years. It is humbling to know that a character I simply imagined has brought so much joy to so many people. Thank you, once again, to Jessica Gladwell, Tony Collins, Joy Tibbs and Louise Titley who helped introduce Poppy to the world.

I have delayed sharing this sad news so that I can sweeten it with some good news. I have a new series coming out with Embla Books (an imprint of Bonnier Books UK), which has just been announced in The Bookseller today! The Miss Clara Vale Mysteries, about a lady science graduate who inherits a detective agency in Newcastle upon Tyne, will be released this September. There are three under contract, so far, the first is ‘The Picture House Murders’, set in the summer of 1929. So fans of Poppy Denby (and hopefully many more new fans) prepare yourselves for more mysterious Golden Age delights!

Clara, like Poppy, will soon be getting her own website. But for now, you can follow any developments on my author website www.fiona.veitchsmith.com

Below: 1920s film star Louise Brooks. If anyone were to play Clara in a moving picture it would be Miss Brooks!

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