Marjorie Eccles hat zahlreiche romantische und Kriminalromane verfasst, die sowohl in Großbritannien als auch in den USA veröffentlicht wurden. Ihre Werke haben eine breite internationale Resonanz erfahren, da sie weltweit übersetzt und als Fortsetzungsgeschichten veröffentlicht wurden. Eccles verwebt komplizierte Handlungsstränge mit emotionaler Tiefe und spricht damit ein breites Lesepublikum an.
England 1905. Auf Charnley feiert man den Geburtstag von Lady Beatrice. Viele Gäste sind gekommen. Am nächsten Morgen ist Beatrice verschwunden. §40 Jahre später entdeckt man bei Renovierungsarbeiten ihr Tagebuch. Harriet, die älteste Tochter der Familie, beginnt noch einmal intensiv nach ihrer Mutter zu forschen ...
Laura Harcourt wonders why the Beaumont family still grieves over a death that occured twenty years earlier, and when a body is found in a dam, she is drawn into the life of the family, uncovering secrets that someone wants to keep hidden.
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.
London, April, 1912. When the seven-month-old niece of cabinet minister Edmund Latimer is snatched away in her pram in Regent's Park, Edmund's wife Alice determines to get to the bottom of the matter. Could there be a connection with the Irish talks currently taking place in Parliament - and how well does Alice really know her husband?
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.
A young woman investigates the murder of her mother in this absorbing historical mysteryLondon, May, 1911. The new king, George V, is preparing for his coronation. The suffragettes are campaigning for women to get the vote. The East End seethes with unrest. And 18-year-old Kitty Challoner is looking forward to ‘coming out’ in London society.But Kitty’s secure, sheltered world is about to be torn apart. Lydia Challoner is shot dead while out riding in Hyde Park, and during the ensuing murder investigation Kitty discovers that there was so much she didn’t know about her mother. Was Lydia really the killer’s intended target? Is there a link to her Russian heritage? Why had she been behaving so strangely in recent weeks? Was she having an affair?As Kitty determines to uncover the truth and wonders exactly whom she can trust, she learns that the household in which she lives harbours a number of dangerous secrets.
1927. The discovery of the remains of a middle-aged man buried beneath the snow in the grounds of Maxtead Court, home of the wealthy Scroope family, triggers a series of murders and an intriguing mystery whose roots lie in South Africa and a shocking incident during the Boer War more than twenty years before.
Will the remains of a soldier be the key that unlocks the secrets of Leysmorton Manor . . . ? - 1922. Lady Emily Fitzallan has returned to the country house where she spent her childhood for a family wedding. Leysmorton Manor brings back many memories, especially of her elder sister Clare, who vanished one day after going for a walk, never to return. But the disturbing discovery of a soldier's skeleton at the base of an ancient Yew tree brings the past shockingly into the present. Could the man's untimely death have its roots in Clare's disappearance, which occurred almost half a century ago . . .'
A body is discovered at Maxstead Court School for Girls and DI Reardon investigates. He finds the school a hotbed of scandalous secrets and schoolgirl cruelty. As he pursues his enquiries, it is clear that the victim was not who she claimed to be and Reardon is convinced that more than one member of staff is not telling him the truth.