Book 15

Blood Never Dies

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 31 August 2012
A boiling-hot August day and a handsome young man is found dead in his bath, exsanguinated. Bill Slider's colleague takes one look at the body and is convinced something isn't quite right. As Bill investigates, he reluctantly has to agree. But as Slider and his team try to identify...Read more

Book 16

Hard Going

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 31 October 2013

Why was a local philanthropist murdered? Bill Slider investigates . . .

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,...

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Book 17

Who would kill a charming antiques expert Rowland Egerton, the darling of daytime TV? Bill Slider and his team are on the case ...'It's quiet out there,' says DS Atherton, at Bill Slider's office window. 'Too quiet.' Right on cue, the phone rings. 'Now look what you've done,' says...Read more

Book 18

One Under

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 30 October 2015

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...

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Book 19

Old Bones

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 31 October 2016
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...Read more

Book 21

Headlong

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 31 October 2018

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...

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Game Over

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 29 February 2008
The murder of any journalist is bound to whip the news media into a frenzy. So 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...Read more

Death Watch

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 23 July 1992

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

A Bill Slider Mystery

The lot of the working copper is getting harder: new regulations, regular rousting by the top brass, a budget tighter than a Victoria corset and a DC who thinks he's in a John Le Carré novel makes it...

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Blood Sinister

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 2 December 1999

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

A Bill Slider Mystery

Award-winning ex-Guardian hack Phoebe Agnew has a reputation for attacking the police in print. So when her strangled body is found in her chaotic flat, Detective Inspector Bill Slider must abide by the impartiality of the law and...

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Gone Tomorrow

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 6 December 2001

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

A Bill Slider Mystery

The stabbed body of a well-dressed man is found slumped on a swing in a children's playground in the heart of Detective Inspector Bill Slider's patch.

From the seedy pubs of Shepherd's Bush through the brothels of Notting Hill...

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Shallow Grave

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 3 December 1998

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

A Bill Slider Mystery

Detective Inspector Bill Slider has always been keen on architecture, and The Old Rectory is the kind of house he would give anything to won. But the dead body of Jennifer Andrews in her shallow grave rather spoils...

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Dear Departed

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 3 June 2004

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

A Bill Slider Mystery

It looks as though Inspector Bill Slider has a serial killer on his hands: 'the Park Killer', as the media so innovatively label him, attacks his victims in London's public parks, and when Chattie Cornfield is murdered while...

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'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES

A Bill Slider Mystery

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...

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Blood Lines

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 1 January 1996
This is the fifth Bill Slider mystery. When a music critic dies in strange circumstances, Detective Inspector Slider suspects a number of people. But when suspicion falls close to home, only Slider's troubled instincts can prevent the obvious arrest being made.

Kill My Darling

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 31 October 2011
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...Read more

Killing Time

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 5 December 1996

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

A Bill Slider Mystery

Detective Inspector Bill Slider is back at work with a thumping headache, courtesy of the last villain he apprehended. But he is minus Atherton, a friend and colleague, who's still recovering from his injuries.

Slider was hoping for a...

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Fell Purpose

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 31 October 2009

Bank Holiday Monday, and beautiful Zellah Wilding, straight-A student at St Margaret's, prefect, future Head Girl, lies dead near the famous Wormwood Scrubs prison in London. What was this good girl from a strict Christian family doing out there, dressed to kill, when she was supposed to be at...

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Body Line

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 30 November 2010

Bill Slider and his team investigate the murder of a mystery man

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. The odd...

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Necrochip

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 1 January 1993

'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

A Bill Slider Mystery

There's a changing of the guard at Shepherd's Bush police station. But unfortunately for Bill Slider, incoming Detective Superintendent Barrington has something to prove and no desire to make friends with his subordinates.

Luckily - or rather, unluckily...

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Shadow Play

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Published 1 October 2017
"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...Read more