Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
1) One Under
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Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his team investigate two seemingly unrelated deaths with ties to a cold case in the eighteenth entry in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' critically acclaimed crime series.
A middle-aged man jumps under a tube train at Shepherd's Bush station. A teenage girl is killed in a hit-and-run, in a country lane puzzlingly far from her
...'An outstanding series' –NEW YORK TIMES
Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his team investigate the tragic death of a young woman in the twenty-fifth entry in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' critically acclaimed crime series.
Rhianne Morgan, just eighteen, waiting for her A-level results, lies dead in her comfortable middle-class home in a nice, respectable area.
Neighbours remember rows
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Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his team investigate the disappearance of a woman caught in tangled web of deception in the fourteenth entry in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' critically acclaimed crime series.
When Melanie Hunter goes missing, the men in her life come under suspicion. And there's plenty to suspect: lies, half-truths, deceit. When you pull
...4) Dying Fall
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Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his team investigate a seemingly accidental death in the twenty-third entry in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' critically acclaimed crime series.
A 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,
...5) Star Fall
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Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his team investigate the murder of a daytime TV star in the seventeenth entry in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' critically acclaimed crime series.
'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 Slider. It's a homicide.
...6) Country Plot
One lousy Monday, Jenna loses her gorgeous job, her even more gorgeous boyfriend, and her home. In an attempt to put aside her personal woes, Jenna goes to catalogue books for an elderly cousin, Kitty Everest, at her country mansion. Horrified to discover that Kitty may be forced to sell Holtby House, Jenna throws herself into a scheme to save it. But when an attempt is made on her life,...
7) Hard Going
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Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his team investigate the murder of a local philanthropist in the sixteenth entry in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' critically acclaimed crime series.
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
...8) Shadow play
A young couple discover human remains buried in the garden of their new house: could this be the resting place of 14-year-old Amanda Knight, who disappeared from the same garden two decades before, and was never seen again?
The problem comes almost as a relief to DCI Slider, still suffering from the fallout of his previous case. He is not...
11) Headlong
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...
The body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Simpson?s car workshop. But there?s no ID in the pockets and Eli swears he?s never seen the man before.
Then a girlfriend turns up with a name, and claims the victim told her he was someone?s ?right hand man?. But old fractures and scars,...
'An outstanding series' –NEW YORK TIMES Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his team investigate the murder of a personal fitness trainer in the twenty-second entry in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' critically acclaimed crime series.
Fitness trainer Erik Lingoss is found dead in his West London flat, his head smashed by one of his own dumbbells. His ex-girlfriend, discovered at the scene with blood on her clothes and hands,
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