Iris meets the Prince of Wales
The Prince of Wales' visit to Winchester on 7 November 1923 provided the perfect starting point for A Corpse in Christmas Close...
Read moreThe Prince of Wales' visit to Winchester on 7 November 1923 provided the perfect starting point for A Corpse in Christmas Close...
Read moreSeaside holidays evolved in the 1920s with clothes becoming skimpier and holidaymakers looking for new types of entertainment...
Read moreMy family’s links to Dawlish and Exeter in Devon provided the inspiration for the setting of A Killing at Smugglers Cove...
Read moreMeet four of the leading characters in A Killing at Smugglers Cove...
Read moreA 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...
Read moreIris Woodmore is strongly influenced by her suffragette mother. This is Violet Woodmore's story...
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...
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