- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur; St. Martin edition (March 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312307535
- ISBN-13: 978-0312307530
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.9 x 2.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 354 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,552,841 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Eccles' popular British policeman, Detective Superintendent Gil Mayo, continues to attract Anglophile mystery fans. His latest outing has him paired again with Inspector Abigail Moon and working to find out who killed an as-yet-unidentified woman found floating in a nearby river following a major flood. Not long after the woman's body is discovered, the bursar at the city university is found shot to death in his office. Are the two deaths connected? In a seemingly unrelated matter, young Cleo Atkins, who works for a local cleaning company, reports she has seen a gun hidden in a bureau drawer at the cottage of a local antiques dealer. Mayo and Moon find plenty of clues and an abundance of suspects, but they make frustratingly little progress in cracking the case until they link the found gun to the crimes. Good attention to detail, excellent character development, and a convoluted plot that's chock-full of surprises make this a solid choice for fans of the British procedural. Emily Melton
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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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
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Untimely end to the series in my opinion, April 11 2012
By Booker G "ultimate reader" - Published on Amazon.com
"Untimely Graves" has an intricate plot combining two murders, one an unidentified woman found in the flooding river near Lavenstock and the other the bursar of a local public school. As usual, Detective Superintendent Mayo and colleagues have to realize and establish the connection between them in order to solve the cases. Marriage and family relationships--typical and dysfunctional-- are the basis of this story, and Eccles' plot-driven characters in these relationships are believable and interesting.This is the final book in the Gil Mayo series, and I wish the author had tied up a few ends related to the series characters. It is not as though Eccles spent a lot of time building these characters in depth over the series, but still it would have been nice, for example, to know if Inspector Abigail Moon took a new job as chief inspector and what happened with her romance. But to the end of the series Eccles never seemed to want to clutter up her mysteries with too much personal drama on the part of Mayo and crew.
In this book, as in all her books, Eccles doesn't do anything new with the mystery genre, but what she does is done very competently and reliably piques the reader's interest. She keeps the number of pages to around 200 or a little less in her books, but she really tells a good story despite her brevity. I am sorry the series stopped after this book.
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