Marjorie Eccles: A Fatal Necessity
Herbert Reardon #6
This is the first book I’ve read in this series, but it won’t be the last. This novel is set in 1935, on the cusp of war. The first book took place in 1919, just after WWI, as Britain attempted to put itself back together. In this novel, while life is fairly peaceful in the village of Templewood in Worcestershire, it’s not so peaceful for one particular family. As the book opens, the wife of a prominent judge has left her husband a note that she’s leaving him. When they find her, her body is in the skeleton of a house site where she had planned to build a new home, and her suitcases are sitting right next to her. It’s pretty apparent she’s been murdered.