Dear Departed (A Bill Slider Mystery) - Softcover

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia

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9780751534283: Dear Departed (A Bill Slider Mystery)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751534285 ISBN 13: 9780751534283

Publisher: Sphere, 2005

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Chattie Cornfeld was murdered while jogging in the park. She ran her own small marketing company and lived comfortably, perhaps too comfortably for her income. At first it looked as though she was the latest victim of the 'Park Killer', but it doesn't take Slider and Atherton long to establish that someone was trying to pass the killing off as part of a pattern: only the pattern doesn't fit, this one was personal. Chattie was popular with all who crossed her path, and it was difficult to imagine she had gained any enemies.

Turning to the two most popular motives for murder - money and passion - Slider and his team's investigation turn up some puzzling anomalies in her life, not least the number of men who counted themselves as her lover and the tangled relationships of her family.
But none of the suspects can be made to fit what evidence they have, unless of course they've been mis-reading the evidence ...

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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.

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)

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