Inspector Bill Slider mysteries

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.

Detective Inspector Bill Slider must shelve his personal feelings to investigate the murder of journalist Phoebe Agnew, who was notorious for attacking the police in the press.

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.

When Melanie Hunter uncharacteristically disappears, the men in her life come under suspicion. As Bill Slider and his team are questioning the potential suspects, they discover much about Melanie's past: unsettling deceptions, family secrets, and an enduring pain that she hid from the outside world. Slider will have to unravel lies, half-truths and disinformation to find the answer to their questions: who loved Melanie, and who loved her too much?...

The murder comes--much to 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...

"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...

"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.

"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...

"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...