The Crime Writers’ Association

Historical Dagger 2016

Shortlisted


Fiona Veitch Smith

The Jazz Files

Published by: Lion Fiction

This first entry in a new series featuring a female journalist in 1920s London 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.

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