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The Body on the Roundabout
A Piddlington Gazette Mystery (Book 1)
- Author
- Faith Eckersall
- Narrator
- Jonathan Keeble
- Publisher
- Embla Books
- Publish Date
- 18 November 2025
- Run Time
- 9 hours 9 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
What to expect
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...
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Details
- Author
- Faith Eckersall
- Narrator
- Jonathan Keeble
- Duration
- 9 hours 9 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 November 2025
- ISBN
- 9781471419577
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Embla Books
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Synopsis
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...
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