Terry Duffelen

A young football influencer is found dead behind a rundown non‑league stadium.

 

Everyone thinks they know why. Everyone is wrong.

 

Linda Haynes is a middle‑aged widow, a part‑time teaching assistant, and the woman who runs the burger van at Southwall FC. Her life is small, familiar, and safely contained within the routines of matchdays, regulars, and the crumbling concrete of The Whallop. Then Esther arrives.

 

Esther is young, charismatic, and fast becoming a star of football YouTube—celebrated for shining a light on the overlooked people who keep clubs like Southwall alive. When she is found dead inside the stadium grounds, the shock ripples through the club, the community, and Linda herself.

 

The police call it suspicious. The press circle hungrily. Rumours spread.
And Linda realises she was one of the last people Esther tried to contact.

 

Drawn reluctantly into the aftermath, Linda begins to see the fault lines beneath her community: jealousies, grudges, buried relationships, and a quiet but ruthless property deal that could erase Southwall FC altogether. As the investigation deepens, loyalties fracture and familiar faces take on darker shapes. In a place where everyone knows everyone, the truth proves far more uncomfortable than any conspiracy.

 

A Killing at Southwall FC is a sharply observed, character‑driven mystery set in the overlooked corners of modern London. It’s a novel about grief and belonging, about women pushed to the margins, about football as community rather than spectacle—and about how violence can grow not from grand schemes, but from ordinary human resentment.

 

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Perfect for readers who enjoy:

• British crime fiction with strong sense of place
• Slow‑burn mysteries driven by character rather than clichés
• Stories about football culture beyond the Premier League
• Socially aware novels in the vein of modern urban noir