The Carousel of Time
Published on 19. February 2026
360 pages
978-1-0683893-4-4 (ISBN)
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What goes around comes around on the carousel of time. Every summer four friends gather at Barnes Fair to ride the carousel in memory of Esther, the school friend they lost in a car crash they were all involved in as teenagers.
This year, the morning after the fair, one of those friends, Shelley Gregory, is found murdered on that very carousel. DI Garibaldi has questions to ask. Who killed Shelley, and why there? Is her death linked to the tragedy the friends commemorate each year, or do the answers lie closer to home in the quiet Thameside village of Barnes, where Shelley was well known but not always well liked? As Garibaldi pieces together the events of that summer night, he uncovers dark undercurrents beneath Barnes's genteel surface and begins to see the truth: what goes around comes around when you ride the carousel of time.
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After graduating from Oxford, Bernard O'Keeffe taught English for many years before turning to crime writing. He has published five novels in the DI Garibaldi series, The Final Round (2021), Private Lessons (2023), Every Trick in the Book (2024) and The Masked Band (2025). The Carousel of Time is published in February 2026. He describes DI Garibaldi as "the bastard son of Morse and Montalbano" and admits to sharing several things with his detective Irish Italian ancestry, an inability to drive, a love of country music and a QPR season ticket. He lives in Barnes, the leafy area of south-west London where the novels are set.
