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

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Arabesque of Daisies (As:Jennifer Hyde) (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Handful of Shadows (As:Jennifer Hyde) (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pandora's Box (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Secret Shore (As:Jennifer Hyde) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Winter Magic (As:Jennifer Hyde) (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

Murder, They Wrote(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Malice Domestic 6(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

If You Like Marjorie Eccles Books, You’ll Love…

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.

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