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'Ms Eccles is one of the stalwarts of British crime fiction' Susannah Yager, Sunday Telegraph * The Superintendent's Daughter 'The book will appeal to readers who appreciate an intiguing mystery, interesting subplots and rich characterisation, with keen insights into secondary characters' - Publishers Weekly * A Death of Distinction 'Eccles' lucid narrative and tension-building skills provide an intriguing outing for procedural fans' - Kirkus Reviews * An Accidental Shroud 'Another crime cracker from Eccles, who would get the police seal of approval for her attention to detail' - Northern Echo
The rain-swollen River Kyne, overflowing its banks, sends a houseful of mud into Iris Osbourne's treasure-filled cottage and an unidentified body into the fields just beyond, spelling trouble for Lavenstock's Inspector Gil Mayo (A Sunset Touch, 2002, etc.) and his promotion-minded sergeant, Abigail Moon. The flooding Kyne reminds Cleo Atkins how out-of-control her own life has become since she failed her university exams shortly after discovering that her longtime lover Toby Armitage preferred her twin sister Jenna. As her brisk, efficient mother Daphne frets, her recently retired policeman father offers her work at his detective agency, only to find that she prefers dusting parlors at her friend Val's Maid to Order cleaning business to dusting for prints. When Dorrie Lockett's Victorian (which Charles Wetherby, bursar of adjacent Lavenstock College, covets for the access it would afford the college to posh Kelsey Road) needs a good cleaning, Dorrie's nephew Sam Leadbetter provides a promising distraction. So does co-worker Tony Gilchrist, and so does Cleo's move into her late Aunt Phoebe's eccentrically decorated house, recently vacated by American academic Brad Hunnicliffe and his wifty wife Angela. But it isn't until her team is sent to wash the last of the mud off Osbourne's Wych Cottage that the gun she spies in an antique dresser makes Cleo's life really interesting. Eccles's carefully spun plot flows as briskly as the Kyne at flood. Her characters, though not always likable, are never less than believable. (Kirkus Reviews)
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When the murdered body of a woman is found floating in flooded uplands near an isolated farm and nearby cottage, identification proves impossible and the press and police dub her the 'Mystery Woman'. No progress is made in the case until a second murder takes place - the bursar of a public school, currently involved in a controversy over a proposed entrance to the school, is found murdered at his desk. Temporarily unemployed ex-student, Celo Atkins, who will do anything to avoid taking the secretarial job her mothers arranged for her, also comes across evidence from a totally unexpected source, and ultimately finds herself involved in the investigation. Her help along with the investigation into the death of the bursar enables DS Gil mayo and his assistant, Abigail Moon, to uncover a trail that eventually leads to the true identity of the Mystery Woman and to the unexpected solution of the two seemingly unrelated murders.
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'Ms Eccles is one of the stalwarts of British crime fiction' Susannah Yager, Sunday Telegraph * The Superintendent's Daughter 'The book will appeal to readers who appreciate an intiguing mystery, interesting subplots and rich characterisation, with keen insights into secondary characters' - Publishers Weekly * A Death of Distinction 'Eccles' lucid narrative and tension-building skills provide an intriguing outing for procedural fans' - Kirkus Reviews * An Accidental Shroud 'Another crime cracker from Eccles, who would get the police seal of approval for her attention to detail' - Northern Echo
The rain-swollen River Kyne, overflowing its banks, sends a houseful of mud into Iris Osbourne's treasure-filled cottage and an unidentified body into the fields just beyond, spelling trouble for Lavenstock's Inspector Gil Mayo (A Sunset Touch, 2002, etc.) and his promotion-minded sergeant, Abigail Moon. The flooding Kyne reminds Cleo Atkins how out-of-control her own life has become since she failed her university exams shortly after discovering that her longtime lover Toby Armitage preferred her twin sister Jenna. As her brisk, efficient mother Daphne frets, her recently retired policeman father offers her work at his detective agency, only to find that she prefers dusting parlors at her friend Val's Maid to Order cleaning business to dusting for prints. When Dorrie Lockett's Victorian (which Charles Wetherby, bursar of adjacent Lavenstock College, covets for the access it would afford the college to posh Kelsey Road) needs a good cleaning, Dorrie's nephew Sam Leadbetter provides a promising distraction. So does co-worker Tony Gilchrist, and so does Cleo's move into her late Aunt Phoebe's eccentrically decorated house, recently vacated by American academic Brad Hunnicliffe and his wifty wife Angela. But it isn't until her team is sent to wash the last of the mud off Osbourne's Wych Cottage that the gun she spies in an antique dresser makes Cleo's life really interesting. Eccles's carefully spun plot flows as briskly as the Kyne at flood. Her characters, though not always likable, are never less than believable. (Kirkus Reviews)
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When the murdered body of a woman is found floating in flooded uplands near an isolated farm and nearby cottage, identification proves impossible and the press and police dub her the 'Mystery Woman'. No progress is made in the case until a second murder takes place - the bursar of a public school, currently involved in a controversy over a proposed entrance to the school, is found murdered at his desk. Temporarily unemployed ex-student, Celo Atkins, who will do anything to avoid taking the secretarial job her mothers arranged for her, also comes across evidence from a totally unexpected source, and ultimately finds herself involved in the investigation. Her help along with the investigation into the death of the bursar enables DS Gil mayo and his assistant, Abigail Moon, to uncover a trail that eventually leads to the true identity of the Mystery Woman and to the unexpected solution of the two seemingly unrelated murders.
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