DS Gil Mayo Series by Marjorie Eccles (books 4,5, 8-10)
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Overview: Marjorie Eccles was born in Yorkshire and spent her childhood there and on the Northumbrian coast. Later, she lived for many years in the Midlands, where her crime novels are set. She is the author of both romantic and crime novels, including the bestselling DS Gil Mayo series.
Genre: Fiction, Mystery / Thriller
#4 – More Deaths Than One
Something about the case disturbs seasoned DCI Gil Mayo from the start. If freelance journalist Rupert Fleming’s death was a suicide, why were his briefcase and portable typewriter missing from the Porsche where the body was found? Then there is the post-mortem examination with its startling revelation that Fleming had been drugged. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, this was no suicide.
Delving deeper into Fleming’s life, Mayo grows increasingly puzzled. The dead man lived several separate lives: he had one wife in town and another in the country, and still found time to frequent the town’s amateur theatre—a hotbed of jealousies and intrigues where nothing is quite what it seems.
Methodically unravelling the tangled threads of Fleming’s flamboyant and deceitful life, Mayo discovers that the lives of some people closely connected with him were touched by the murdered man. What does the sister of the woman he loves know about Fleming? Mayo asks himself. And what about the policewoman involved with the theatrical troupe?
#5 – Late of This Parish
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 neighbours 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 DCI 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 on 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 neighbour’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.
#8 – A Death of Distinction
Jack Lilburne has spent a long and distinguished career in the Prison Service, highly thought of as the just and humane Governor of Conyhall Young Offenders’ Institution. But not everyone believes he deserves the honour and respect universally given to him. Someone believes he deserves to die a violent death.
At least one of the young criminals who had been under his care has sworn vengeance for his imprisonment. But as Gil Mayo, in his new role as detective superintendent, discovers, there are others who cannot be ruled out..
In what turns out to be a double murder investigation, he is confronted with elements of Lilburne’s past and present—with members of a local protest group, for instance, and two women with a shared past and secrets best left hidden. And where does Marc fit in, the young man with a need to reconstruct his life and an obsessive love for Flora, Lilburne’s beautiful daughter…?
#9 – A Species of Revenge
When the quiet community of Ellington Close in the English country town of Lavenstock is disrupted by murder, DI Abigail Moon is assigned to probe into the mysterious death. The victim, a man fond lying face down in the dirt in a town allotment, has nothing in his possession to indicate his identity but a set of car keys and a few Belgian francs. When another murder occurs, Superintendent Gil Mayo finds himself personally involved with Moon in the investigation—and the residents of the town do not welcome the intrusion, and do little to help with their inquiries.
Mayo and Moon soon find themselves in the thick of an investigation into the lives of the odd residents of Ellington Close. Do the eccentric Kendrick twins have something to hide? The recently widowed Dermott Voss and his children? Or the countless other quirky residents? As Mayo and Moon search for these answers they realize that the two murders are inextricably connected and that they must race to uncover the unknown terror that is lurking in the shadows of the quiet backwater town before it strikes again.
#10 – Killing Me Softly
Detective Sergeant Gil Mayo has a problem on his hands. Even Lavenstock isn’t immune, these days, from the threat of drugs infiltrating into what was hitherto a town noted only for nice, ordinary crime. In the fight against drugs, his team seems to be getting nowhere. But when a member of a well-known and respected family is killed, inquiries take another direction.
As Mayo and his assistant Abigail Moon plunge into the investigation of this murder and more of the unsavoury details of the victim’s private life are revealed, it becomes not simply a question of who had a motive to kill him, but who didn’t: any of his shady associates, his ex-business partner, the woman he’s currently having an affair with, or the family of social drop-outs living in the condemned house by the river. Even his family doesn’t escape scrutiny, for the victim’s marriage had been on the rocks and his father-in-law hated him.
But as Mayo and Abigail finally uncover the truth it becomes clear the murder was not an end, but a beginning—the first link in a chain of further death and destruction…
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