Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
1) Headlong
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
Bill Slider and his team investigate the death of a prominent literary agent in this intriguing contemporary mystery. 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...
3) Hard going
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 16
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
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...
4) Dying fall
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"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 ..."--
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The brand-new Bill Slider Mystery - Bank Holiday Monday, and beautiful Zellah Wilding straight-A student, prefect, future Head Girl lies dead near the famous Wormwood Scrubs prison in London. What was this good Christian girl doing out there, dressed to kill, when she was supposed to be at a sleep-over with school friends? A secret boyfriend from a run-down estate and a recently-released rapist look tasty; or could the nearby fairground or prison...
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
A Bill Slider Mystery - When ex-BBC correspondent Ed Stonax is found dead, the last thing Detective Inspector Slider needs to complicate his life is the reappearance of an old enemy issuing death threats. Trevor Bates, aka The Needle, is on the loose and trying to kill him, and with a high-profile murder to solve, Slider must try to find a spare moment to marry Joanna before their baby is born and stay alive long enough to do it . . .
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
When Melanie Hunter uncharacteristically disappears, the men in her life come under suspicion. It soon becomes clear that there are many secrets in Melanie's past. Bill Slider and his team are investigating and they will have to unravel lies, half-truths and deceptions to find the answer to their questions.
13) Country plot
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Jenna's life is perfect...perfect chaos! - One lousy Monday, Jenna loses her gorgeous job, her even more gorgeous boyfriend, and her home. In an attempt to put aside her personal woes, Jenna goes to catalogue books for an elderly cousin, Kitty Everest, at her country mansion. Horrified to discover that Kitty may be forced to sell Holtby House, Jenna throws herself into a scheme to save it. But when an attempt is made on her life, Jenna finds herself...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
First published as Never Love a Stranger, and originally under a pseudonym, this is a new edition with a new introduction from the author. Anne Symons is content living with her widowed father in a sleepy Dorset town. She has a good job in a solicitor's office and a kind, reliable, good-looking boyfriend Joe. But when enigmatic, sophisticated Michael Conrad appears on the scene, she suddenly feels something was missing from her life. But should she...
15) Kate's progress
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Kate's latest failure on the London dating scene leads her to escape to an idyllic Exmoor, West Country village where she finds her 'Cinderella Project' - a run-down cottage on the edge of the moors. Her attempt to lead a quiet life there is, however, thwarted by a town seething with passion and intrigue. Competition for her affections leads to her entanglement with the Blackmore family, the local landowners consisting of the hostile and brooding...
Author
Series
Ashmore Castle volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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 his duty to the family. With their world upended, the Tallants and their servants struggle...
17) Julia
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A tragic tale of love and the bonds of marriage. Teenager Judah Jacobs is employed regularly as a babysitter by Peter and Joyce Kane. When Joyce is taken to hospital, Judah allows herself to be seduced by Peter. They embark on an affair, and eventually, once Judah is pregnant, Peter leaves Joyce and they embark on a new life together. Tragedy strikes when their son dies from leukaemia and Peter finds comfort in the arms of Judah's sister, Syria. Judah...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First world hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Emma Ruskin, disillusioned with life and love, takes a position as governess to ten-year-old Poppy Ackroyd at a large country home. Despite the Ackroyd family's contempt for her, she soon begins to develop a rapport with Gavin, their effortlessly superior eldest son. Then disaster strikes when Emma and Poppy are snatched and imprisoned by kidnappers. Emma knows they'll be killed if the ransom money isn't forthcoming, unless Gavin can get to them first....
Author
Series
Ashmore Castle volume 02
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1903 England, Kitty, the young pregnant wife of the new Earl of Stainton, lives in fear of her formidable mother-in-law, while the Earl's younger sisters get their first taste of romance with the wrong suitors, and below stairs, ambition, jealousy and revenge stalk the castle's corridors"--
Author
Series
Ashmore Castle volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"England, 1903. Giles, the Earl of Stainton, has fled from his stifling duties to resume his research in Egypt, leaving behind his wife Kitty, and his infant son. Kitty, still reeling from Giles' sudden departure, struggles to keep spirits high in the castle and establish herself as the true mistress of the house, an impossible task given how many secrets the inhabitants are hiding from her... The Earl's younger sisters, Rachel and Alice, are both...
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