Marjorie Eccles je autorkou viacerých romantických a kriminálnych románov, ktoré vyšli vo Veľkej Británii aj v USA. Mnohé z jej kníh boli preložené a serializované po celom svete, čo svedčí o jej medzinárodnom dosahu. Vo svojich dielach sa autorka zameriava na pútavé dejové línie a emocionálnu hĺbku.
February, 1933. When Paul Millar returns home, fourteen years after he was presumed killed at the end of the Great War, his shocked family have many questions, which Paul refuses to answer. DI Herbert Reardon has questions too, when Paul's body is found in the canal just two weeks later and it becomes his duty to solve this most puzzling of cases.
Two men appear to commit suicide, but the post-mortem reveals surprising results. As Chief Inspector Lamb looks for links between the two men, all paths lead to the enigmatic figure of Mrs. Isobel Amberley and a mysterious event that took place one winter's night in Vienna.
England 1905. Auf Charnley feiert man den Geburtstag von Lady Beatrice. Viele Gäste sind gekommen. Am nächsten Morgen ist Beatrice verschwunden. §40 Jahre später entdeckt man bei Renovierungsarbeiten ihr Tagebuch. Harriet, die älteste Tochter der Familie, beginnt noch einmal intensiv nach ihrer Mutter zu forschen ...