Dear Departed - Hardcover

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312347685 ISBN 13: 9780312347680

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2005

Synopsis

It’s Detective Inspector Bill Slider’s day off and he had hoped to have some quiet time with Joanna, his pregnant fiancée. But a woman’s body is found in the park and he finds himself back to work sooner than he expected. At first glance, it looks as though the woman is the latest victim of the “Park Killer.” But it doesn’t take Slider and his partner Atherton long to establish that someone else was trying to pass the killing off as the handiwork of the notorious serial killer. This murder doesn’t fit the pattern; this one was personal.

The woman’s modest income and outlandish lifestyle don’t match up. Turning to the two most popular motives---money and passion---Slider and his team turn up some puzzling anomalies in her life, not the least of which is the number of men she took as lovers and the tangled relationships of her family.

In Slider’s latest adventure, the prolific and masterful Cynthia Harrod-Eagles draws from her great store of wit and warmth. The good-hearted and delightfully flawed Slider charms readers into accompanying him down any path, no matter how dangerous.

About this title

Review:

Recalls Proust's fidelity to our actual thinking about the past (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

Rich and entertaining (GUARDIAN)

Yourcenar's precision is hot; it is animated by real blood, real loss and real love (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

Slider and his creator are real discoveries. (DAILY MAIL)

Book Description:

It looks as though Slider has a serial killer on his patch, but the post mortem on Chattie Cornfeld shows a different murderer has been at work and that she was targetted with malice aforethought, not at random.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312347685
• ISBN 13: 9780312347680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 346