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The Kill Fee available for pre-order

Fiona — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 09:28:31 +0000

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

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

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!

Poppy Denby Investigates

Fiona — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:45:59 +0000

Here are some pics from a film shoot we did for a book trailer for The Jazz Files American launch. I’ll show you the finished film when it’s ready, but for now enjoy these stills of actress Amber Irish playing Poppy Denby as she arrives in London and starts investigating.

Poppy Denby arrives in London to start work as a journalist at The Daily Globe.

When a senior journalist is killed she is tasked with finishing the story he was working on when he died. Poppy Denby Investigates.

Pics from the launch

Fiona — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:42:49 +0000

Everyone had a flapulous time at the launch party at Waterstones, Newcastle on the 25 September. Here is a taste of it. You might want to view the pics to the accompaniment of the Tiger Rag by the Original Dixieland Jazzband. At the launch it was played by Yussef Nimer and Jimmy Madrell from Middlesbrough, not Dixie

Yussef (left), Jimmy and yours truly.

My commissioning editor, Jess Tinker from Lion Fiction who came all the way from Oxford.

Me reading a chapter from The Jazz Files with my daughter in the background.