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1) Dying fall
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 24
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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...
3) Old bones
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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...
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English
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"Anne Symons has a good job in a solicitor's office and a kind, reliable boyfriend, Joe. But when enigmatic, sophisticated Michael Conrad arrives in their sleepy Dorset town, Anne suddenly feels something was missing from her life. Should she risk a safe future with loyal Joe for the dangerous allure of this fascinating stranger?"--Provided by publisher.
5) Shadow play
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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.
6) Headlong
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 18
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 22
Language
English
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Description
"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...
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