Marjorie Eccles

Marjorie Eccles

6 Series

Marjorie Eccles is a British author renowned for her Gil Mayo series. She received the Agatha Christie Styles Award for a short story early in her career and has been nominated for the Ellis Peters Dagger Award.

In Marjorie Eccles' Herbert Reardon series, set in 1919 England, the first book, "Broken Music," follows a former police sergeant returning to Broughton Underhill. His mission is to solve a pre-war murder. As soldiers return home, the narrative intertwines the lingering horrors of World War I with the tensions of reintegration. Reardon's investigation brings wartime loves and losses to a climax, offering a resolution to the long-standing case.

Gil Mayo

Cast a Cold Eye

(1988)

Death of a Good Woman

(1989)

Requiem for a Dove

(1990)

More Deaths Than One

(1991)

Late of This Parish

(1992)

The Company She Kept

(1993)

An Accidental Shroud

(1994)

A Death of Distinction

(1995)

A Species of Revenge

(1996)

Killing Me Softly

(1998)

The Superintendent's Daughter

(1999)

A Sunset Touch

(2000)

Untimely Graves

(2001)

Tom Richmonds

Echoes of Silence

(2000)

Herbert Reardon

Broken Music

(2009)

A Dangerous Deceit

(2013)

Heirs and Assigns

(2015)

The Property of Lies

(2017)

Darkness Beyond

(2021)

Standalone Novels

Arabesque of Daisies

(1992)(As:Jennifer Hyde)

A Handful of Shadows

(1993)(As:Jennifer Hyde)

Pandora's Box

(1995)

A Secret Shore

(1995)(As:Jennifer Hyde)

Winter Magic

(1995)(As:Jennifer Hyde)

Killing a Unicorn

(2002)

The Shape of Sand

(2004)

Shadows and Lies

(2006)

Last Nocturne

(2008)

The Cuckoo's Child

(2011)

After Clare

(2012)

The Firebird's Feather

(2014)

Against the Light

(2016)

Short Story Collections

Account Rendered And Other Stories

(2012)

Anthologies

Murder, They Wrote

(1997)

Malice Domestic 6

(1997)

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