Death by Canapé: Author Faith Eckersall launches her brand new novel
Join us for an evening devoted to Dorset-set cosy crime, canapé, and chat with author Faith Eckersall as she launches the second book in the hilarious Piddlington Gazette Mysteries series.
Faith will be in conversation with Caroline Montgomery, literary agent, and will discuss her humorous, Dorset-based cosy crime novels, The Body on the Roundabout and Death by Canapé, which were inspired by her career as a news reporter in the county. She’ll explain why, after accidentally leaving journalism for PR, she missed her old newsroom so much, she created one of her own, the stories behind her characters and locations, and why she didn’t initially want to include a crime in her novel!
Tickets are £5. This includes entry to the event as well as a £5 voucher off the book!
Also, buy a ticket and bring a friend along for free.
About the Book
Disgraced hack Harry Hedges decides to rescue his ailing career by reviving an even more ailing weekly newspaper in deepest Dorset. All he has to do is take on the town busybody, locate his proprietor’s lost sister and solve the mystery of the body on the town’s overgrown roundabout. With a news team that includes a Gen-Zer with a secret, a truculent sub-editor and a flea-ridden chocolate Labrador, Harry will have his work cut out.
About Faith
Faith Eckersall enjoyed a 40-year career in ‘the best job in the world’ as a regional newspaper reporter, with more than half of that time spent working in Dorset. A multi award-winning feature-writer, she now freelances for publications including Country Living, the Daily Telegraph and Dorset magazine. She gained her MA in Creative Writing: The Novel from Brunel University in 2015, supervised by Bernardine Evaristo OBE, and in 2018 won the Grazia Women's Prize for Fiction First Chapter Award. The Body on the Roundabout is her first published novel.