Marjorie Eccles Books

In 1910, the bloodstained body of an unknown woman is found on the grounds of Sir Henry Chetwynd's Shropshire estate. Sebastian Chetwynd, a reluctant heir, struggles with divided loyalties: his ambition for a career of his own versus his father's expectations, and his duty to marry for money while in love with Louisa, a student doctor and supporter of women's rights. Meanwhile, in London, Hannah, who has lost her memory due to a serious accident, attempts to piece together her past by writing down her life story. As she seeks to recover the fragments of her missing years, the ongoing murder investigation in Shropshire may hold the key. Switching between troubled South Africa in the late nineteenth century and the murder in England a decade later, Marjorie Eccles's narrative reveals the lies and deceptions beneath the veneer of polite Edwardian society.

February, 1933. When Paul Millar returns home, fourteen years after he was presumed killed at the end of the Great War, his shocked family have many questions, which Paul refuses to answer. DI Herbert Reardon has questions too, when Paul's body is found in the canal just two weeks later and it becomes his duty to solve this most puzzling of cases.

Life at Charnley was blessed, or at least so it seemed to the Jardine children. But one night their dreams of a propitious future suddenly come crashing down when a family scandal catapults them into the headlines. Nearly four decades pass and the Second World War is won, but still the exact events of that fateful night remain unknown. However, when builders working on Charnley uncover a shoebox stuffed full of old letters, photographs, and a diary, it finally seems as though some of the answers are within reach. The clue to unraveling the affair lies in a voyage to Egypt undertaken by Beatrice eleven years before her disappearance. With the help of her old diary, Beatrice's three daughters set about uncovering the truth. But when the mummified body of a brutally murdered woman is discovered in the ruins of their old home, they have a whole new set of questions. Beautifully written, evoking the life of the Edwardian upper classes, bomb-scarred, post war England, and the sultry Egyptian landscape, The Shape of Sand proclaims the incomparable talent of this great author.

Two men appear to commit suicide, but the post-mortem reveals surprising results. As Chief Inspector Lamb looks for links between the two men, all paths lead to the enigmatic figure of Mrs. Isobel Amberley and a mysterious event that took place one winter's night in Vienna.