Seaside holidays evolved in the 1920s with clothes becoming skimpier and holidaymakers looking for new types of entertainment...

My family’s links to Dawlish and Exeter in Devon provided the inspiration for the setting of A Killing at Smugglers Cove...

Meet four of the leading characters in A Killing at Smugglers Cove...

A Killing at Smugglers Cove is set in Dawlish and Exeter in South Devon. I had great fun writing about places that are so familiar to me - this won't be Iris's last visit to Devon! Let me take you on a tour of some of the locations featured the book...

Iris Woodmore is strongly influenced by her suffragette mother. This is Violet Woodmore's story...

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...

During 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...

The bridge of the novel’s title is fictitious, but the real-life Basingstoke Canal is the inspiration for The Body at Carnival Bridge...

Fleet 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...

Fleet Pond, and the society set up to protect it, provided the inspiration for Murder at Waldenmere Lake...