The Detective Bill Slider Mysteries
(2026)(A book in the Bill Slider series)
An omnibus of novels by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
SIX UNFORGETTABLE BRITISH CRIME NOVELS FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
Meet Detective Inspector Bill Slider — West London CID's sharpest, driest-witted policeman.
Slider's countryman father taught him how to read the world: a flattened patch of grass, a hair caught on a hedge, a broken spider's web. Those same instincts, transplanted to the streets of Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush, have made him a thorn in the side of his bosses and a quiet legend with the rank and file.
A disgraced BBC correspondent is found dead in his Hammersmith flat. A teenage girl is murdered on Wormwood Scrubs on a Bank Holiday morning. A young woman vanishes from her West London bedsit, and her elderly neighbour knows more than he wants to say. A man is found bled white in a bath in a Victorian attic.
Six investigations. One detective who doesn't miss a thing.
With his urbane sergeant Atherton at his side, his violinist wife at home, and a boss who would rather face a corpse than a committee, Slider sees what the rest of the Met cannot. The cases are riddled with suspects, secrets and the small lies of London. He puts them together one piece at a time.
Witty, intelligent, and quietly devastating — British crime writing at its very best.
For fans of Reginald Hill, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell and Inspector Morse.
Please note these are books 11-16 in the series, but can be read without reading the first ten books first.
PRAISE FOR THE BILL SLIDER MYSTERIES
‘If you haven’t been reading this series, then you’ve missed some of the best British police procedurals being written today’ — Netgalley reviewer
'Some of the best cop talk on either side of the Atlantic.' — Kirkus Reviews
'A sharp tongue and a rueful wit.' — The Boston Sunday Globe
'Quietly worked its way close to the top of the heap.' — Bill Ott, Booklist
'Highly entertaining. Harrod-Eagles shows why this series ranks high among contemporary British police procedurals.' — Publishers Weekly
'A witty, thoughtful mystery.' — Library Journal, starred review
This incredible value box set includes six utterly beguiling mysteries:
GAME OVER
FELL PURPOSE
BODY LINE
KILL MY DARLING
BLOOD NEVER DIES
HARD GOING
Genre: Mystery
Meet Detective Inspector Bill Slider — West London CID's sharpest, driest-witted policeman.
Slider's countryman father taught him how to read the world: a flattened patch of grass, a hair caught on a hedge, a broken spider's web. Those same instincts, transplanted to the streets of Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush, have made him a thorn in the side of his bosses and a quiet legend with the rank and file.
A disgraced BBC correspondent is found dead in his Hammersmith flat. A teenage girl is murdered on Wormwood Scrubs on a Bank Holiday morning. A young woman vanishes from her West London bedsit, and her elderly neighbour knows more than he wants to say. A man is found bled white in a bath in a Victorian attic.
Six investigations. One detective who doesn't miss a thing.
With his urbane sergeant Atherton at his side, his violinist wife at home, and a boss who would rather face a corpse than a committee, Slider sees what the rest of the Met cannot. The cases are riddled with suspects, secrets and the small lies of London. He puts them together one piece at a time.
Witty, intelligent, and quietly devastating — British crime writing at its very best.
For fans of Reginald Hill, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell and Inspector Morse.
Please note these are books 11-16 in the series, but can be read without reading the first ten books first.
PRAISE FOR THE BILL SLIDER MYSTERIES
‘If you haven’t been reading this series, then you’ve missed some of the best British police procedurals being written today’ — Netgalley reviewer
'Some of the best cop talk on either side of the Atlantic.' — Kirkus Reviews
'A sharp tongue and a rueful wit.' — The Boston Sunday Globe
'Quietly worked its way close to the top of the heap.' — Bill Ott, Booklist
'Highly entertaining. Harrod-Eagles shows why this series ranks high among contemporary British police procedurals.' — Publishers Weekly
'A witty, thoughtful mystery.' — Library Journal, starred review
This incredible value box set includes six utterly beguiling mysteries:
GAME OVER
FELL PURPOSE
BODY LINE
KILL MY DARLING
BLOOD NEVER DIES
HARD GOING
Genre: Mystery
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