Blood Never Dies
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Publisher Description
‘An outstanding series’ – NEW YORK TIMES
Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his team investigate the death of a young man where nothing seems to add up in the fifteenth entry in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' critically acclaimed crime series.
On a hot summer day, a young man is found dead – apparently by his own hand – in the bath at his flat. But something isn't right about the scene.
The flat is tidy – too tidy. The smell of fresh paint still hangs in the air. The young man's wallet, keys and personal papers are all missing.
Then there's the manner of death: a single slash to the left jugular – a next-to-impossible wound for a left-handed man to have inflicted on himself.
As Bill Slider and his team investigate, it seems that the more they find out about the mystery man, the less they really know . . .
Written with Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' signature sharp plotting and dry wit, this hard-hitting character-driven mystery is a must-read police procedural for fans of Mick Herron, Ann Cleeves and Peter Robinson.
Praise for the Bill Slider series:
‘Slider and his creator are real discoveries’
Daily Mail
‘Sharp, witty and well-plotted’
Times
‘Harrod-Eagles and her detective hero form a class act. The style is fast, funny and furious - the plotting crisply devious’
Irish Times
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Harrod-Eagles's engrossing 15th Bill Slider mystery (after 2011's Kill My Darling) has the London detective inspector investigating a fit, good-looking young man's apparent suicide in a shabby flat. Only, as Slider realizes, the man didn't commit suicide, but had his throat slashed after being drugged. The detective unravels the victim's tangle of aliases to identify him as B.J. Corley, a wealthy and distinguished family's highly accomplished scion. But why did he shave his legs, dye his hair, and become a minor actor in the pornography industry? Three more bodies that turn up murdered in the same way and disguised as suicides all prove to be linked to Corley's secret life. As Slider's team doggedly pursues the truth, vivid descriptions bring each detective to life, such as "scrawny frog-eyed" Det. Sgt. Colin Hollis. A sly wit that leavens this richly detailed mystery is a bonus.
