Marjorie Eccles Books in Order

Architect Clive Lethbridge is murdered with a crystal inkwell after celebrating a professional triumph. Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo examines the victim's family, colleagues, and neighbors, discovering grievances behind the outward respectability of their lives.

Romance writer and philanthropist Fleur Saville disappears, and her husband claims she is working at their cottage. When thawing snow reveals her body, Gil Mayo investigates the resentments concealed beneath her reputation for doing good.

The strangling of Marion Dove, matriarch of a glass-manufacturing family, brings Gil Mayo into an inheritance dispute. A Canadian grandson's arrival and concealed family relationships complicate efforts to establish who wanted the wealthy woman dead.

Journalist Rupert Fleming's apparent suicide becomes a murder investigation for Gil Mayo. Probing relatives, lovers, and a missing theater director, Mayo encounters exploitation and financial wrongdoing before another death raises the stakes of his inquiry.

Set designer Serena Smith travels to Amsterdam to research a playwright, expecting to stay with her friend Ella. Ella's absence and actor Patrick Hatch's arrival draw Serena into a dangerous mystery involving blackmail, trafficking, and divided loyalties.

Retired school headmaster Cecil Willard is found smothered in a village church. Gil Mayo investigates people angered by his interference, while a recent bombing at a nearby institute raises questions about a possible connection between the crimes.

After losing her job, Christy Durrant visits her stepmother Melissa in Madeira. Melissa's anxiety, an unexplained death, and warnings from former racing driver Ben Battista turn Christy's hoped-for refuge into a search for dangerous hidden truths.

Angie Robinson's strangled body appears on a remote moorland road after police receive an anonymous letter hinting at an old murder. Gil Mayo investigates her connections to Flowerdew, a country house whose former visitors share troubling secrets.

Jeweler Nigel Fontenoy's murder initially points toward his indebted cousin, builder Jake Wilding. When an unexpected alibi disrupts the case, Gil Mayo and Abigail Moon investigate tangled family relationships and opportunities created by a destructive storm.

A car bomb kills young offenders' institution governor Jack Lilburne and injures his daughter. Gil Mayo investigates threats from former inmates and family connections, while a hospital worker's search for his birth mother complicates the inquiry.

Charlotte Haigh becomes increasingly troubled by the unexplained death of her cousin Lois. As she probes secrets within her family, she fears that someone close to her may want to prevent her questions by harming her too.

Samantha moves to London for an exciting store job and finds a welcoming shared house. Her efforts to reinvent herself become complicated by attraction to the enigmatic Nick, whose changing moods and apparent unavailability leave her uncertain.

An unidentified man's battered body is found in a close-knit Lavenstock neighborhood. As Gil Mayo traces his presence there, a teenage newspaper deliverer's death raises questions about links to other killings and secrets among the residents.

Financier Tim Wishart's death is staged as suicide, but a postmortem reveals murder. Abigail Moon takes a leading role in the investigation, sorting through debts, affairs, business partnerships, and grudges with Superintendent Gil Mayo's support.

When Kathryn Conolly is murdered and her friend Julie Mayo disappears, Superintendent Gil Mayo faces a deeply personal crisis. Excluded because Julie is his daughter, he conducts an unofficial inquiry while Abigail Moon investigates dangerous connections.

A suspicious fire and a vicious attack occupy two of Gil Mayo's inspectors. Displaced Polish children, stolen art, and a painting by Paul Klee draw the superintendent into an investigation that reaches abroad and connects the cases.

DI Tom Richmonds returns to Yorkshire despite memories of a child's murder ten years earlier. A biographer's killing leads him back to the child's family, renewing doubts about the mother's confession and the original investigation.

Floodwaters reveal a murdered woman whose identity eludes Gil Mayo and Abigail Moon. When a school bursar is also killed, cleaner Cleo Atkins discovers unexpected evidence that may connect the cases and draw her into danger.

Bianca Morgan's body is discovered beneath a waterfall on the Calvert family's estate. When her young son also disappears, Francesca Calvert investigates the secrets linking Bianca to three brothers and the danger surrounding the missing child.

Decades after a scandal and their mother's disappearance disrupted the Jardine family, old letters and a diary surface at Charnley. Three daughters investigate a journey to Egypt, while a murdered woman's remains introduce another troubling mystery.

In 1909, an unidentified woman's murder on a Shropshire estate unsettles Sebastian Chetwynd and draws detectives toward London. A recovering amnesiac and memories of the Boer War complicate the connections between his family and the victim.

Two apparently inexplicable suicides trouble Chief Inspector Lamb and Detective Sergeant Cogan in early twentieth-century London. A postmortem prompts suspicion, and their search for connections leads toward Isobel Amberley and a mysterious night in Vienna.

Returning from the First World War, Herbert Reardon reexamines a young woman's supposedly accidental drowning. When a maid is murdered at the same location, he investigates connections among villagers struggling to rebuild lives disrupted by war.

In 1909, Laura Harcourt takes a job cataloguing a wealthy Yorkshire mill owner's library. A damaged manor wing hints at past tragedy, and a body near the mill dam brings her into a murder investigation.

A family wedding brings Lady Emily back to the estate where her sister vanished years earlier. The discovery of a murdered soldier's remains creates a new inquiry, prompting questions about whether the two mysteries are connected.

In 1927 Worcestershire, an unidentified body and a factory owner's subsequent death draw Herbert Reardon into an inquiry. The late Osbert Rees-Talbot's unfinished memoirs suggest that a secret from the Boer War may still threaten local families.

Preparing to enter London society in 1911, Kitty Challoner is devastated when her mother is shot while riding in Hyde Park. Investigating Lydia's concealed life, Kitty encounters questions about Russian heritage, political unrest, and household loyalties.

Relatives gather at Penrose Llewellyn's Shropshire home for his sixtieth birthday, only to find him dead after a supper party. Herbert Reardon investigates suspicious circumstances, inheritance expectations, and secrets exposed by the host's unexpected engagement.

In 1912 London, physician Alice Latimer and her politician husband face mounting unease over Irish Home Rule. A kidnapping, murder, and threats to their household draw police attention while Alice questions the security of her family life.

A woman's body is discovered at Maxstead Court School for Girls, where Herbert Reardon's wife has just begun teaching. His investigation reveals concealed identities, staff rivalries, and cruel schoolgirl schemes within the supposedly respectable institution.

In 1933, Paul Millar returns home fourteen years after being presumed dead in the Great War. When he is murdered shortly afterward, Herbert Reardon investigates his unexplained absence and the secrets troubling his property-developing family.

In 1935 Worcestershire, Judge Waring's missing wife is found strangled near a building on their estate. Herbert Reardon and Sergeant Jago investigate her mysterious departure, uncovering concealed relationships and old lies among the neighboring households.