Inspector Bill Slider mysteries
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[1991]
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English
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Detective Inspector Bill Slider - middle-class, middle-aged, and middle-of-the-road - is never going to make it to Scotland Yard. He's spent most of his working life at Shepherd's Bush nick, and stopped minding long ago about being passed over for promotion. But then the unidentifiable body of a woman turns up on his patch, and suddenly Slider and his partner Atherton have a chance to prove themselves. As they wrestle with an investigation, in which...
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Death watch , Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 2
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Death to go , Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 3
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Grave music: an Inspector Bill Slider mystery , Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 4
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
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In London, police inspector Bill Slider teams up with a black woman constable, Tony Heart, to catch the killer of a homosexual dancer. The probe takes the pair on a tour of London's seedy night clubs.
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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In London, Inspector Slider investigates the murder of a promiscuous woman, even though her husband has confessed to the crime. Slider believes the husband is innocent and is protecting her reputation.
10) Dear departed
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 10
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2005, 2004.
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English
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 11
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English
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A Bill Slider Mystery - When ex-BBC correspondent Ed Stonax is found dead, the last thing Detective Inspector Slider needs to complicate his life is the reappearance of an old enemy issuing death threats. Trevor Bates, aka The Needle, is on the loose and trying to kill him, and with a high-profile murder to solve, Slider must try to find a spare moment to marry Joanna before their baby is born and stay alive long enough to do it . . .
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 12
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English
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The brand-new Bill Slider Mystery - Bank Holiday Monday, and beautiful Zellah Wilding straight-A student, prefect, future Head Girl lies dead near the famous Wormwood Scrubs prison in London. What was this good Christian girl doing out there, dressed to kill, when she was supposed to be at a sleep-over with school friends? A secret boyfriend from a run-down estate and a recently-released rapist look tasty; or could the nearby fairground or prison...
13) Body Line
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 13
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English
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The brand-new Bill Slider Mystery - David Rogers was a doctor, handsome, charming and rich. He lived the lifestyle of a consultant – expensive clothes, top restaurants, exclusive clubs – until someone killed him in the hallway of his lovely million-plus-pound house. But when Bill Slider and his firm are thrown into the mystery, they soon discover that nothing is as it seems, for though David's girlfriends are plenty, none of them can tell...
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 14
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English
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A Bill Slider mystery - When Melanie Hunter goes missing, the men in her life come under suspicion. And there's plenty to suspect: lies, half-truths, deceptions. When you pull one thread, the whole fabric of family life can come apart. There are secrets in Melanie's past, and pain she tried to hide from the world. Slider and his team need to answer two questions: who loved Melanie . . . and who loved her too much?
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 16
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English
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The murder comes much to Slider s family s disgust during his week off, saving him from the horrors of a trip to the shopping centre with his two older children. The late Mr Lionel Bygood, who looks, to all intents and purposes, like an old-fashioned sort of gentleman, has been bashed in the head with a bronze statue, in what Doc Cameron describes as our old friend the Frenzied Attack . It soon emerges that Mr Bygood was a philanthropist, well-known...
17) Star fall
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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The post-Christmas lull is officially over. The deceased is antiques expert Rowland Egerton, the darling of daytime TV, stabbed to death in his luxurious West London home. The press are going to be all over this one like a nasty rash: the pressures on Slider for a result, and soon. Egertons partner, the bulky, granite-faced John Lavender, found the body; did he also do the deed? Or was it a burglary gone wrong? A missing Fabergé box...
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 18
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English
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"A middle-aged man jumps under a tube train at Shepherd's Bush station, and a teenage girl is killed in a hit-and-run, in a country lane puzzlingly far from her home on the White City Estate: two unrelated incidents which occupy DCI Bill Slider and his team during a slack period. At least it's a change of speed after the grind of domestics, burglaries and Community Liaison. But links to a cold case--another dead teenager, pulled out of the River Thames--create...
19) Old bones
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 19
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2017.
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English
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When a young couple discover human remains buried in the garden of their new house, Detective Inspector Bill Slider is called upon to investigate. It appears that they have found the final resting place of fourteen-year-old Amanda Knight, who disappeared from that same garden two decades before. With a murder twenty years in the past, this is the coldest of cold cases. Most of the suspects and principal players are now dead, and all the passion is...
20) Shadow play
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"When the body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Simpson's car workshop, DCI Bill Slider and his team soon surmise that the victim was someone's 'enforcer'. So who was Mr King? Who was he the muscle for? And what did he know that made someone decide to terminate the terminator?"--Publisher's description.
21) Headlong
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 21
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2019.
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English
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"When one of London's best-known literary agents is found dead in strange circumstances, having fallen headlong from his office window, DCI Slider is under pressure from the Borough Commander to confirm a case of accidental death. But when the evidence points to murder, Slider and his team find themselves uncovering some decidedly scandalous secrets in the suave and successful Ed Wiseman's past. An embittered ex-wife. A discarded mistress. A frustrated...
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 22
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English
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"Fitness trainer Erik Lingoss is found dead in his west London flat, his head smashed by one of his own dumbbells. His heartlessly-dumped girlfriend, blood on her clothes and hands, is the prime suspect. She had means, opportunity, and motive. But is the case as clear-cut as it seems? Handsome Erik Lingoss had clients in high places; and he seemed to engender powerful emotions. If it was a crime of passion, there was plenty of that to go round: love...
23) Dying fall
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The woman lies dead at the foot of the stairs. It's obvious what happened: she tripped and fell. But PC D'Arblay, called to the dilapidated West London villa by an anonymous tip-off, can't shake the feeling that's exactly what someone wants him to think. It was the deep head wound that killed her--but her dying fall left no blood trail, so what was it she hit her head on? DCI Slider, of the Shepherd's Bush murder squad, is soon convinced D'Arblay...
24) Before I sleep
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 24
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Felicity Holland is missing. She left her handsome West London house to go to her weekly pottery class and didn't come back. She's a mature, sensible woman with a stable home life and a happy marriage - no reason to abscond. Her distraught husband is convinced she must have been snatched. DCI Bill Slider and his team know that when a woman goes missing, you have to move fast if there's to be a hope of finding her alive. But with no evidence of foul...