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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...
2) Body line
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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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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?...
4) Fell purpose
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 12
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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.
5) Star fall
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2015.
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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...
6) Hard going
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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...
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 24
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Happily married, wealthy Felicity Holland is missing, and no one knows why. DCI Bill Slider and his team will have to move fast if there's to be a hope of finding her alive. But with no evidence of foul play--nothing to go on at all--where do they even start looking? All they know for sure is that the clock is ticking ...
8) 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...
10) One under
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 18
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"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...
11) Headlong
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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...
12) Shadow play
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 20
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2017.
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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.
14) Death to go
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 3
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1994.
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English
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 7
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Detective Inspector Bill Slider discovers there is more going on than meets the eye when he is called to the West London residence of famed historian Cyril Dacre where the body of Jennifer Andrews, the wife of a builder hired to fix the terrace, was found dead in a trench dug by her husband.
17) Death watch
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 2
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1993.
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English
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