Untimely Graves

March 1, 2004
Superintendent Gil Mayo and his assistant Abigail Moon must unravel two seemingly unrelated murders-that of an unidentified woman found floating in flood waters with a bullet in her heart and that of a public school bursar-in British author Marjorie Eccles's intricate police procedural, Untimely Graves: A Mystery Featuring Superintendent Gil Mayo.

February 1, 2004
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.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2004, American Library Association.)