Marjorie Eccles Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

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.

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.

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.

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 ...