Time shift
Shifting her setting by just a decade brought subscriber Fiona Veitch Smith’s historical crime novels to life.
Fiona Veitch Smith’s debut historical crime novel, The Jazz Files, is on the shortlist for this year’s Crime Writers’ Association Endeavour Historical Dagger award, the top gong for historical crime, mysteries and thrillers published in the UK.
According to the CWA judging panel, the first of her 1920s sleuth series Poppy Denby Investigates, The Jazz Files, 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.’