<div>A young woman comes of age and discovers her hidden past in this gripping historical mystery set in the north of England. England, 1909. When twenty-one-year-old Laura Harcourt accepts a position in Wainthorpe, a small Yorkshire town, to catalog books in an old manor house owned by wealthy local Ainsley Beaumont, she does not dream that it will change her life forever. But she arrives to find the Beaumont family still torn apart by the death of Ainsley&rsquo;s son in a disastrous fire twenty years past. Worse still, the damaged wing of the house remains untouched. When a dead body surfaces in the water at Beaumont&rsquo;s mill, long-buried secrets soon follow&mdash;including Laura&rsquo;s unexpected connection to the Beaumont family. Rendered in exquisite period detail, Cuckoo&rsquo;s Child is a moving, suspenseful mystery of love, lies, and murder. &ldquo;Eccles&rsquo; latest enjoyably blends historical romance and suspenseful murder mystery in a keep-&rsquo;em-guessing plot with revealing insights into English society at the time and authentic period ambience. Entertaining reading for fans of British historicals.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist</div>

The Cuckoo's Child

<div>A sheltered young woman postpones her entry into Edwardian society to solve the untimely demise of her mother. London, 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 eighteen-year-old Kitty Challoner is looking forward to &lsquo;coming out&rsquo; in London society. But Kitty&rsquo;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&rsquo;t know about her mother. Was Lydia really the killer&rsquo;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 harbors a number of dangerous secrets. &ldquo;Solid writing, an engaging heroine, authentic period ambience, and some unexpected twists make this an entertaining and satisfying read for all historical-mystery buffs.&rdquo; &#8213;Booklist &ldquo;Well-drawn characters, inventive plotting, and a touch of romance distinguish this lively historical.&rdquo; &#8213;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Eccles once again combines history and romance with a clever mystery filled with a wide array of suspects.&rdquo; &#8213;Kirkus Reviews</div>

The Firebird's Feather

<div>Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon&rsquo;s debut mystery &ldquo;will delight fans of the TV series Downton Abbey&rdquo; (Library Journal, starred review). November, 1928. Family and friends have gathered at the Shropshire country home of Penrose Llewellyn to celebrate the retired wealthy businessman&rsquo;s 60th birthday. But the morning after what should have been a convivial supper party, their host is found dead in his bed&mdash;and the circumstances look decidedly suspicious. As he questions the victim&rsquo;s nearest and dearest, DI Herbert Reardon discovers there are several longstanding secrets lurking amongst the Llewellyn clan&mdash;and he is convinced that not everyone is telling him the truth, or at least not the whole truth. Those who stand to inherit most from Pen Llewellyn&rsquo;s will&mdash;if it can be found&mdash;are under the strongest suspicion, and among them hides a ruthless killer. &ldquo;Readers will be as keen as the inspector to see how the case develops.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;This delightful British country-house mystery features a clever plot, captivating characters, and authentic period detail.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;Plenty of suspects and unexpected twists.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;Will delight fans of the TV series Downton Abbey and authors Simon Brett and Kate Kingsbury&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal (starred review)</div>

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Heirs and Assigns

<div>Personal and political tensions collide when a baby is kidnapped in an absorbing historical whodunit from the author of the Gil Mayo Mysteries. London, April, 1912. The third Irish Home Rule Bill is passing through Parliament and the situation is growing ever tense. Closely involved in the negotiations, cabinet minister Edmund Latimer finds himself under growing pressure&mdash;which only intensifies when his seven-month-old niece Lucy is snatched away in her pram in Regent&rsquo;s Park. Could there be a connection between Lucy&rsquo;s kidnapping and the Irish talks? With her husband under intolerable strain, Edmund&rsquo;s wife Alice makes it her business to find out. But the more she discovers, the more she realizes how little she really knows the man she married five years before. &ldquo;A strong storyline and plenty of interesting characters.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;[A] socially illuminating standalone from Eccles.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Here [Eccles] has commendably portrayed life in the Edwardian era, including the public&rsquo;s anxieties stemming from the labor strikes, the suffragette movement, the Irish question, and talk of war in Europe. . . . An enjoyable read.&rdquo; &mdash;Historical Novel Society</div>

Against the Light

<div>Following the huge success of The Shape of Sand, shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger award, comes this dramatic story of love, war, and intrigue. It is the year 1910 and the bloodstained body of an unknown woman is found on the grounds of Sir Henry Chetwynd's Shropshire estate. A reluctant heir to the estate, Sebastian Chetwynd is already battling with divided loyalties: his ambition for a career of his own and his father's expectation that he follow in his footsteps, and his duty to marry for money when he is in love with Louisa, a student doctor and supporter of women's rights. Unknown to the Chetwynds, there is Hannah, living in London, who has lost her memory of everything that happened in the dozen years previous to a serious accident. In an attempt to unravel her past, Hannah writes down the story of her life as far as she can remember it. As she reaches out to grasp and piece together the fragments of those missing years, it seems that the ongoing murder investigation in Shropshire could hold the key. Switching between troubled South Africa in the last years of the nineteenth century and the murder in England ten years later, Marjorie Eccles's delicate narrative reveals the lies and deceptions that have lain beneath the veneer of polite Edwardian society.</div>

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The Cuckoo's Child

The Firebird's Feather

Heirs and Assigns

Against the Light

Shadows & Lies

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Shadows & Lies

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