The Body on the Roundabout

The first in a hilarious and cosy English murder mystery series for autumn 2025 (A Piddlington Gazette Mystery Book 1)

by Faith Eckersall

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Book 1 of A Piddlington Gazette Mystery

Pub Date 18 Nov 2025 | Archive Date 2 Dec 2025

Bonnier Books UK | Embla Books

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

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Description

It's all kicking off in Piddlington Minster...

Harry Hedges is a desperate man. Desperate to be a journalist again. Desperate to pay off his overdraft. And desperate to find a decent coffee. In a paper cup. With a lid on.

There's not much chance of that in Dorset, where he's trying to revive an ailing weekly newspaper and claw his way back to journalistic civilisation, after losing his swanky London job.

All he has to do is take on the town busybody, locate his proprietor's lost sister, and help solve the mystery of the body on the roundabout.

How hard can it be?

With a news-team that includes a Gen-Zer with a secret, a truculent pensioner and a flea-ridden Labrador, the answer is - very...

It's all kicking off in Piddlington Minster...

Harry Hedges is a desperate man. Desperate to be a journalist again. Desperate to pay off his overdraft. And desperate to find a decent coffee. In a...