Untimely Graves

Marjorie Eccles. Minotaur Books, $22.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-312-30753-0

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.

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