Against the Light
A Late Edwardian Mystery
Published on 9. May 2019
224 pages
978-1-78010-785-1 (ISBN)
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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-which only intensifies when his seven-month-old niece Lucy is snatched away in her pram in Regent's Park.
Could there be a connection between Lucy's kidnapping and the Irish talks? With her husband under intolerable strain, Edmund'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.
"A strong storyline and plenty of interesting characters." - Kirkus Reviews
"[A] socially illuminating standalone from Eccles." - Publishers Weekly
"Here [Eccles] has commendably portrayed life in the Edwardian era, including the public's anxieties stemming from the labor strikes, the suffragette movement, the Irish question, and talk of war in Europe.... An enjoyable read." -Historical Novel Society
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-which only intensifies when his seven-month-old niece Lucy is snatched away in her pram in Regent's Park.
Could there be a connection between Lucy's kidnapping and the Irish talks? With her husband under intolerable strain, Edmund'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.
"A strong storyline and plenty of interesting characters." - Kirkus Reviews
"[A] socially illuminating standalone from Eccles." - Publishers Weekly
"Here [Eccles] has commendably portrayed life in the Edwardian era, including the public's anxieties stemming from the labor strikes, the suffragette movement, the Irish question, and talk of war in Europe.... An enjoyable read." -Historical Novel Society
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Marjorie Eccles
Against the Light
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05/2016
Severn House
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Marjorie Eccles was born in Yorkshire and has since spent some time on the Northumbrian coast. Marjorie has written mainly crime novels, but also some romantic fiction. She is the author of the 'Gill Mayo' mystery series.
