
Untimely Graves (Gil Mayo Mystery Book 13)
By Marjorie Eccles
Read the books behind the major prime-time BBC series “Mayo”.
When the murdered body of a woman is found floating in flooded uplands near an isolated farm and cottage, it poses problems of identification, prompting the press to dub her the ‘Mystery Woman’.
Who is she? As time goes by, Detective Superintendent Gil Mayo and his assistant Inspector Abigail Moon begin to fear that this question is destined to remain unanswered, until the bursar of a public school is found murdered at his desk. Though the murders are seemingly unrelated, events begin to show that this is not the case.
As a temporarily unemployed ex-student, Cleo Atkins will do anything rather than take the safe secretarial position her mother has lined up for her, even to taking a job with Maid to Order, a firm of cleaning contractors, something her mother feels she is singularly unfitted for. The firm is much in demand following the trail of destruction left by the floods, and whilst working with the team Cleo comes across evidence from a totally unexpected source, and ultimately finds herself involved in the investigation.
With her cooperation, Mayo and Moon are able to follow a chain of events that guide them towards the true identity of the Mystery Woman. But will they find the solution to both murders in the process?