Inspector Bill Slider mysteries
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3) Death to go
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 3
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When Detective Inspector Bill Slider is called to investigate a murder at a fish-and-chip shop, clues point in bewildering directions and even send him delving into the past life of his own recently deceased boss.
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 4
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While attempting to reassemble the pieces of his own life, Detective Inspector Bill Slider finds himself trying to determine which of a whole crowd of suspects killed the famous but unpopular conductor Sir Stefan Radek.
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 5
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Slider believes that an apparent suicide is a murder leading to a trail of alibis, suspicions, and surprise witnesses all of which must be dealt with before the killer strikes again.
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 6
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Detective Inspector Bill Slider, just back on the job after a harrowing case in which his partner was seriously injured, is pulled into the world of seedy nightclubs and prostitutes when he sets out to discover who killed erotic dancer Jay Paloma.
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 8
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Detective Inspector Bill Slider investigates the murder of a journalist whose reputation was based on criticizing the police. A welcome addition to this literate, colorful, and tightly plotted series.
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 9
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In the heart of Shepherd's Bush, London-Slider's patch, a groundskeeper discovers a well-dressed man seated on a children's swing. Problem is, the man is dead, a single, perfect stab-wound to the heart. Even more mysteriously, someone has clearly rummaged through the man's pockets-but left behind over a thousand pounds in cash.
10) Dear departed
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 10
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Detective Bill Slider would like nothing better than to spend some time at home with his pregnant wife but a serial killer whom the police call the Park Killer has other ideas and the more Slider investigates, the more consumed the killer becomes. In fact, it soon becomes clear that there may be more than one killer.
11) Game over
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Severn House Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
234 p. ; 23 cm.
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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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Severn House
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
268 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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London police detective Bill Slider must decide between a wealth of suspects while investigating the murder of smart and beautiful Zellah Wilding, a student at St. Margaret's school found dead near the Wormwood Scrubs prison when she was supposed to be sleeping over with friends.
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 13
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Rogers was handsome, charming, and rich-- until someone killed him in the hallway of his million-plus-pound house. Was he killed for passion, professional jealousy, or plain old money? Slider soon discovers that nothing is as it seems.
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 14
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When Melanie Hunter uncharacteristically disappears, the men in her life come under suspicion. It soon becomes clear that there are many secrets in Melanie's past. Bill Slider and his team are investigating and they will have to unravel lies, half-truths and deceptions to find the answer to their questions.
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 15
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st world ed.
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
16) Hard going
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 16
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Severn House
Pub. Date
c2013.
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First world edition.
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236 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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The murder comes--much to the Slider 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 Bygod, 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 Bygod was a philanthropist, well-known...
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 17
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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. Egerton's partner, the granite-faced John Lavender, found the body; did he also do the deed? Or was it a burglary gone wrong? As Slider and his team investigate, none of the facts seem to fit. And it soon becomes clear that the much-loved, charming Mr Egerton wasn't as universally...
18) One under
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 18
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For a policeman, there are some questions that have to be asked even if no one wants to know the answers. 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 home on the White City Estate. These two unrelated incidents 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,...
19) Old bones
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 19
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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?
20) Shadow play
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 20
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 23 cm
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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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Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
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First world edition.
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220 pages ; 23 cm
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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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"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
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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's...
24) Before I sleep
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 24
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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...