Piddlington Gazette Mystery

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... Faith Eckersall enjoyed 25 years as a regional news reporter, before going freelance. Along with fiction, she now writes for publications including Country Living, Waitrose Weekend and the Daily Telegraph. In 2015 she gained her MA in Creative Writing: The Novel, supervised by Bernardine Evaristo OBE, and in 2018 won the Grazia Women's Prize For Fiction First Chapter Award. The first in a new British cozy crime mystery series set in the UK Author is based in Dorset, UK. In 2015 she gained her MA in Creative Writing: The Novel, supervised by Bernardine Evaristo OBE. In 2018 she won the Grazia Women's Prize For Fiction First Chapter Award.

The second book in the Piddlington Gazette cosy mystery series! Perfect for fans of Ian Moore, Richard Osman and Reverend Richard Coles. It's still kicking off in Piddlington Minster... If Piddlington Gazette editor, Harry Hedges, thought the sleepy Dorset town had earned a respite from murder after not one, but two bodies turned up on its roundabout last year, he's got another think coming. First, someone has been placing sinister effigies among the streets of the local Model Village: seemingly harmless fun until one turns out to be a dead ringer for the town mayoress, a woman best known for her big development plans and even bigger list of enemies. That same evening, following a glitzy party thrown by the district's newest celebrity, the mayor is found dead. Did she really choke on a canape? Harry smells a front-page splash but can he persuade his rookie reporter and truculent chief sub to back his hunch? Not to mention the office's beloved Labrador dog - who has intriguing career plans of his own. Armed with nothing but his reporter's notebook and instinct, Harry sets out to solve the case before another resident turns up dead. After all, in a town this small, everyone's under the microscope. Literally... Faith Eckersall (Author) Faith Eckersall enjoyed 25 years as a regional news reporter, before going freelance. Along with fiction, she now writes for publications including Country Living, Waitrose Weekend and the Daily Telegraph. In 2015 she gained her MA in Creative Writing: The Novel, supervised by Bernardine Evaristo OBE, and in 2018 won the Grazia Women's Prize For Fiction First Chapter Award. The second book in The Piddlington Gazette Mysteries, a new British cozy crime series Author is based in Dorset, UK. In 2015 she gained her MA in Creative Writing: The Novel, supervised by Bernardine Evaristo OBE. In 2018 she won the Grazia Women's Prize For Fiction First Chapter Award. Perfect for fans of Ian Moore, Richard Osman and Reverend Richard Coles.