Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

"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...

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.

Kate's latest failure on the Londdon dating scennt leads her to escape to an idyllic Exmoor, West Country village where she finds her "Cinderella Project" a run-down cattage on the edge of the moors. Her attempt to lead a quiet life there is thwarted, however, by a community seething with passion and intrigue.

"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...

When investigating the murder of a journalist, Detective Inspector Bill Slider's life becomes more complicated when he tries to find the time to marry his girlfriend before their baby is born, while receiving death threats from an old enemy.

"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 period. At least it's a change of speed after the grind of domestics, burglaries and Community Liaison. But links to a cold case--another dead teenager, pulled out of the River Thames--create...

Detective Inspector Bill Slider investigates when sixteen-year-old Zellah Wilding, a gifted student at an all-girls church school, is found dressed like a prostitute and dead of strangulation near London's Wormwood Scrubs prison.

"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 months away from Beattie and his hoped-for reconciliation. Fred's unit is sent to the Rhine, and Cook feels a guilty relief that her uprooting has been postponed. Laura's friend Ransley volunteers for a further six months, and rather than...

"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.

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,...