Order of Marjorie Eccles Books
Marjorie Eccles is a British author best known for her Gil Mayo series of books. She won a Agatha Christie Styles Award for a short story early in her career and has also been nominated for the prestigious Ellis Peters Dagger Award.
Eccles was born in Yorkshire, United Kingdom where she grew up and spent much of her life. She currently lives with her husband in Hertfordshire where she enjoys working on her garden. Her Gil Mayo series of books was actually adapted by the BBC as a television show which starred Alistair McGowan as the title character.
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Publication Order of Gil Mayo Books
| Cast a Cold Eye | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Death of a Good Woman | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Requiem for a Dove | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| More Deaths Than One | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Late of This Parish | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Company She Kept | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| An Accidental Shroud | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Death of Distinction | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Species of Revenge | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Killing Me Softly | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Superintendent's Daughter | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Sunset Touch | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Untimely Graves | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Tom Richmonds Books
| Echoes of Silence | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Herbert Reardon Books
| Broken Music | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Dangerous Deceit | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Heirs and Assigns | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Property of Lies | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Darkness Beyond | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Fatal Necessity | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Arabesque of Daisies | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Handful of Shadows | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pandora's Box | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Secret Shore | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Winter Magic | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Killing a Unicorn | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Shape of Sand | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shadows and Lies | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Last Nocturne | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Cuckoo's Child | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| After Clare | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Firebird's Feather | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Against the Light | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Account Rendered And Other Stories | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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Cast A Cold Eye is the first book in the Gil Mayo series. Mayo takes a promotion that takes him from Yorkshire to the fictional town of Lavenstock. We quickly find out that Mayo likes to get all the facts before accusing someone and that it annoys him when other detectives attempt to jump to conclusion. When an award-winning architect is found dead in him home and there are plenty of people who may have wanted him dead. A good introduction to Mayo and a solid mystery.
The Herbert Reardon series is another popular series from Eccles. This series is set in 1919 England and the first book is Broken Music. It is post World War I and the soldiers are making their way home. Former police sergeant heads back to the village of Broughton Underhill where he hopes to solve an old murder from before the beginning of the war. This books does a great job of tying together the horrors of war with the anxiety of coming home. The loves and losses of wartime will come to a head as Reardon attempts to solve this case, once and for all.