When murder hits close to home, Iris must fight to clear her name…
Spring, 1924. Reporter Iris Woodmore plans to move to London to avoid a shocking hometown scandal. Longtime enemy Archie Powell has been threatening to reveal her darkest secret – and she’s
desperate to flee before he does.
But when he’s found murdered after a violent argument with her, there’s no escape. Iris must stay and clear her name even though the truth could ruin her reputation.
With the police closing in, Iris has to find the real killer if she’s to keep her secret. Can she prove her innocence without revealing the identity of the one man who can provide her with an alibi?
A gripping new mystery for fans of Verity Bright, Clara McKenna, and Helena Dixon.
Thanks for taking the time to stop by my author page. You’ll see all my books are classic murder mysteries – because golden age whodunnits are the stories I enjoy reading most.
I love to create memorable characters and devise intriguing plots with a focus on mystery rather than violence.
I live in Hampshire, England, and it’s the setting for many of my books. My standalone novel, Murder at Merewood Hospital, features Sister Helen Hopgood, the last nurse left in a military hospital in
Hampshire at the end of the First World War.
I also have family connections to Devon, and the fourth Iris Woodmore Mystery, A Killing at Smugglers Cove, is set on the south coast of Devon in 1923. Iris is back in her native Hampshire for A Corpse in Christmas Close, set in Winchester over Christmas 1923, and Murder at Mill Ponds House, which begins on 1st May 1924.
You can read all of my books as standalone novels, even the Iris Woodmore Mysteries, as each is a separate story, although the characters develop as the series progresses.
I hope you enjoy reading or listening to my books.
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My thoughts: Poor Iris, creepy stalker Archie Powell has moved to her home town and hardly anyone seems to understand what a nasty piece of work he is. He keeps up his reign of terror, threatening Iris with a gun and saying he’ll expose her for having an affair with a married man (even though she isn’t).
Then someone shoots him, and Iris is the prime suspect. There are some others too, but Iris needs to clear her name before the police arrest her. Who else hated Archie so much they they’d shoot a man in the back, or is there something else going on?
Luckily Iris has fantastic friends and they all rally round to help her find out who the killer is. By interviewing the residents of the respite home Archie was managing, and the people who worked there perhaps they’ll find something.
As Iris works to solve the case, it becomes apparent that not everyone is telling the truth, and plenty of people’s secrets are going to have to be brought out into the light before the case is solved.
Another excellent case for Iris, though perhaps not one she’ll be recounting in her job as journalist, at least not the parts about her being a suspect or Archie’s threats.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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