Four women who dare to challenge society in The Body at Carnival Bridge
The Body at Carnival Bridge features four women who go against convention to enter professions previously barred to them. As a result, they make deadly enemies...
Read moreThe Body at Carnival Bridge features four women who go against convention to enter professions previously barred to them. As a result, they make deadly enemies...
Read moreDuring the First World War, record numbers of women entered the workplace and joined professions previously barred to them. But by the 1920s, many of the gains made towards equality were in danger of being lost...
Read moreThe bridge of the novel’s title is fictitious, but the real-life Basingstoke Canal is the inspiration for The Body at Carnival Bridge...
Read moreFleet Pond in Hampshire takes centre stage in Murder at Waldenmere Lake, the latest Iris Woodmore Mystery. In this post, I take you on a tour of some of the locations featured in the book...
Read moreFleet Pond, and the society set up to protect it, provided the inspiration for Murder at Waldenmere Lake...
Read moreEarlier this year, I took part in an author panel with fellow crime writers T A Williams and Debbie Young to talk about writing cosy crime. Here are some of my answers to the questions we discussed.
Read moreHere's a brief introduction to some of the regular characters who feature in the Iris Woodmore Mysteries
Read moreInspiration for Death at Crookham Hall struck in the summer of 2018 on a guided tour of the Houses of Parliament...
Read moreCrookham Hall is based on Dogmersfield House, now the Four Seasons Hotel. The restored Georgian manor house in Dogmersfield Park, Hampshire becomes the ancestral home of Lord Tobias Timpson in Death at Crookham Hall...
Read moreA glimpse into the lives of the civilian casualties as well as the German and Polish airmen involved in the Exeter Blitz provides a unique insight into those dark days of the Second World War...
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