Order of Gil Mayo Books
Gil Mayo is the protagonist in a series of crime fiction novels by British novelist Marjorie Eccles. Gil Mayo is a wise-cracking police detective based out of the Midlands, England. The series was adapted to a TV series by the BBC, starring Alistair McGowan.
Marjorie Eccles began her Gil Mayo series in 1988 with the novel Cast a Cold Eye. The series lasted 13 novels, concluding in 2001 with Untimely Graves. Below is a list of Marjorie Eccles’ Gil Mayo books in order of when they were first released (which is the same as their chronological order):
Publication Order of Gil Mayo Books
| 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) | |
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Gil Mayo Synopses: Death of a Good Woman by Marjorie Eccles is the second book in the Gil Mayo series. Best-selling author Fleur Lamont, reowned for her charitable works, had left her husband – or so he had said. When her body turned up two weeks later the subsequent murder investigation caused Inspector Mayo to revise his opinions about Fleur, her family and friends.
Requiem for a Dove is the third book in the Gil Mayo series from Marjorie Eccles. Widow Marion Dove is found strangled in the canal near her isolated home. It isn’t long before Superintendent Mayo realizes that the murderer is someone from within family – and they all have means, motive, opportunity and alibis.