Detective Inspector Gil Mayo investigates the murder of Clive Lethbridge, an architect who had many enemies

Fleur Saville, a beautiful and popular novelist, disappears after an argument with her husband, and it is assumed that she has left him, until she turns up dead

When Chief Inspector Gil Mayo investigates the death of Marion Dove, whose body had been found floating in a canal near her home, he uncovers devastating secrets from the past that have profound repercussions for Dove's family

Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo finds out that a murdered journalist was also a bigamist, and as he digs deeper, the murderer strikes again

The Reverend Cecil Willard was not one of those born to be loved. A scholarly and austere man, former headmaster of the local boys' school, his stern moral principles and die-hard opinions never endeared him either to those close to him or to his neighbors in the village of Castle Wyvering where he lived and worked. Nevertheless, the discovery of his murdered body at the foot of the altar steps in the church shocked the whole community. Situated at the outskirts of the Lavenstock Division, tiny Castle Wyvering and its inhabitants are unfamiliar to Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo and his support team. However, Mayo soon learns that there are plenty of people in Castle Wyvering who had cause to resent the old man, including his own long-suffering daughter - but who would want to kill him, and why? Does his death have anything to do with the power struggle for the headmaster's position at the school, or with the shooting of three badgers in a neighbor's garden? And who is the mysterious Sara mentioned in Willard's diary? The answers, and the final solution to the murder, only become apparent after Mayo's far-reaching inquiries, and not before the killer has struck once more.

A group of friends, a night of secrets, a sworn silence… The silence is now broken at the most unseeing of times. But why? Why would anyone want to bring up a past that safely lay buried? A secret that could destroy the lives of many. A secret that had no doubt haunted those present for many years anyway... In the blink of an eye, Felix Darbell’s life is thrown into chaos. Submitting to the urge to revisit the source his fears, Darbell returns to the venue where it had all almost ended. Flowerdew is almost how he remembered it... Meanwhile, Detective Chief Inspector Gil Mayo has a new addition to his team, Abigail Moon. When they receive a note, it doesn’t mean much to Mayo. Trying to decipher the note takes them down too many paths to be too bothered by its content. And then the discovery of Angie Robinson’s asphyxiated body provides more questions than answers. A search of Angie’s residence soon unearths a link to the note – a link that Mayo needs to investigate the murder from a different angle. What was Angie about to reveal? There are secrets, of that Mayo is certain. But which one of the likely suspects will crack first? The Company She Kept is a gripping thriller that takes a walk down memory lane, to a night that changed lives forever… Praise for Majorie Eccles ‘Eccles produces smoothly flowing prose and an atmospheric setting’ - Publishers Weekly ‘Superior police procedural’ - Sunday Telegraph Marjorie Eccles lived for many years in the Midlands and she is the author of many other books and short stories, for which she received the Agatha Christie Short Story Styles Award. Eccles’s books featuring Detective Gil Mayo were also adapted for the BBC.

When a local antique dealer's body turns up dead at his cousin's building site, the case seems open and shut, but D.C.I. Gil Mayo and D.I. Abigail Moon soon find out that the family relationship is a lot more complicated than they had thought

As Gil Mayo and his assistant Abigail Moon look into the murder of a prominent citizen, they must deal not only with upheaval within the police department, but also with those who would keep the killer's identity a secret

Preoccupied with their own problems, the residents of Ellington Close, in the English country town of Lavenstock, do not welcome being questioned by the police in the matter of two apparently unrelated deaths. The reasons for this are revealed when Superintendent Gil Mayo and his team move in and uncover monsters lurking beneath the surface of this quiet backwater.

In the tenth mystery in this atmospheric village series, Gil Mayo finds that crime and trouble come closer than ever, as members of the Hertfordshire force seem to be involved in a series of robberies and a subsequent murder. He and his Sergeant are faced with clearing them—or bringing them to justice.

Julie Mayo and Kathryn Conolly have been the closest of friends since their schooldays… So when each girl finds herself in a spot of trouble, it’s only natural they should turn to each other in confidence, their letters winging their way around the world and offering reassurance that they are not alone. But when one girl is found brutally murdered in a luxurious country house hotel, and the other goes missing, it seems that their friendship, and correspondence, might be hiding a deadly secret. Although desperate to be involved, Superintendent Gil Mayo is excluded from the case because Julie is his daughter. Unable to officially take charge of what might be the most important investigation of his career, Mayo begins his own unofficial inquiry, aided by regular updates from Inspector Abigail Moon, who carries on with the murder investigation. The two officers, in their individual investigations, discover that Kat seems to have been playing dangerous games with powerful people—and it is possible that Julie became deeply involved. What’s more, there is also reason to believe that the murdered girl was mistaken for her childhood friend. The murder inquiry centres not only on Kat’s colourful and complex love life, but also delves into the past. In the process, local people are drawn into the case, their success and importance making them anxious about the past indiscretions that are inevitably coming to light. Who was the intended victim? And, more importantly, where is the missing girl now? It is imperative that she be found—not only for the help she might offer for solving the case, but for her own protection. The Superintendent’s Daughter is a complex and intriguing crime thriller, filled with mystery and suspense. Marjorie Eccles was born in Yorkshire and spent her childhood there and on the Northumbrian coast. She later lived for many years in the Midlands, where her crime novels are set. She has written more than twenty books and short stories for broadcasting and serials, and is the recipient of the Agatha Christie Short Story Styles Award. The Superintendent's Daughter is her eleventh crime novel to feature Detective Superintendent Gil Mayo.

A new novel in the popular DS Gil Mayo series. When the murdered body of a woman is found floating in flooded uplands near an isolated farm and nearby cottage, it poses problems of identification, prompting the press to dub her the 'Mystery Woman.' Who is she? As time goes by, Detective Superintendent Gil Mayo and his assistant Inspector Abigail Moon, begin to fear that question is destined to remain unanswered, until the bursar of a public school, currently involved in controversy over a proposed new entrance to the school, is murdered at his desk. Though the murders are seemingly unrelated, events begin to show that this is not so. As a temporarily unemployed ex-student, Cleo Atkins will do anything rather than take the safe secretarial position her mother has lined up for her, even to taking a job with Maid to Order, a firm of cleaning contractors, something her mother feels she is singularly unfitted for. The firm is much in demand following the trail of destruction left by the floods, and working with the team Cleo comes across evidence from a totally unexpected source, and ultimately finds herself involved in the investigation. With her cooperation, Mayo and Moon are able to follow a chain of events that eventually lead to the identity of the Mystery Woman being revealed, and to the unexpected solution of both murders.