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Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When the strangled corpse of a nearly seventeen-year-old girl, a bright, gifted student, talented artist, and musician respected by her teachers and peers at an excellent all-girls church school, is discovered in a London park near her home, dressed like a tart, Slider and his team investigate.
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Bill Slider is called in to investigate a mutilated corpse abandoned in a children's playground, and he follows a trail that leads to a ruthless crime baron who will do anything to keep his identity secret.
Author
Series
War at home volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Set against the events of 1914 at the outbreak of World War I, the Hunter family, their servants, their neighbors, and the denizens of the once-tranquil village of Northcote, England, all must deal with the harsh realities of a violent and rapidly changing world.
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Severn House
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 22
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
War at home volume 5
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1918 the Great War has taken so much from so many and it threatens to take even more still from the Hunters, their friends and their servants. Edward, in a bid to run away from problems at home, decides not to resist conscription and ends up at the Front. Sadie's hopes for love are unrequited, and Laura has to flee Artemis House when it is shelled and she finds herself in London driving an ambulance. Ethel, the nursery maid, masks her own pain...
Author
Series
War at home volume 4
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1917 the Great War rages on, and for the Hunters, their friends and their servants the war is where they live now.David has returned from the Front a shadow of his former self; his sister Diana, newly married, copes with pregnancy alone, her husband at the Front. Aunt Laura, eager for challenge, goes to France with an ambulance; while Beattie struggles to manage war work and household, while racked with her secret guilt and a new threat of exposure.U-boat...
Author
Series
Ashmore Castle volume 1
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Behind the doors of the magnificent Ashmore Castle, secrets are waiting to be uncovered . . . 1901. When the Earl of Stainton dies in a tragic hunting accident, Giles, the eldest son of the noble Tallant family, must step forward to replace him as the head of the family. But Giles has avoided the Castle and his stifling relatives for years, deciding instead to forge his own path away from the spotlight. Now, he must put aside his ambitions and honour...
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Bill Slider and his team investigate the murder of a victim with a decidedly shady past in this gripping contemporary mystery. 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, discovered at the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The final book in Cynthia's War at Home series. 'Always a stay-up-all-night read with Cynthia Harrod-Eagles! ***** 'Fabulous series of books, this author never disappoints' ***** 'I love Cynthia Harrold-Eagles' historical novels' ***** 1919: The war is over, but peace is yet to come. As men are demobbed, women must give up positions that gave them freedom. Edward is given an important job at the Peace Conference in Paris, but it means more lonely...
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