Dying Fall
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Power, money, murder . . . Investigating a seemingly accidental death leads DCI Bill Slider and his team down a dark path in this gripping British police procedural.
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 right. But with no motive, no murder weapon and no idea even who the victim is, Slider faces steep odds to get a result . . . while each painstaking step towards the truth brings him closer to a ruthless, evil killer.
The Bill Slider series is in "a league of its own" (Publishers Weekly Starred Review). If you haven't met Slider and his team yet, why not start now?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Harrod-Eagles's solid 23rd mystery featuring London Det. Chief Insp. Bill Slider (after 2020's Cruel as the Grave), Slider and longtime sidekick Det. Sgt. Jim Atherton are dispatched to a home after an anonymous caller reported spotting a body inside at the foot of a staircase. The shoes of the deceased, a 30-something woman, are on different steps, suggesting an accidental trip on a hole in the carpet at the top. But the massive head wound suggests that a murderer staged the scene. After the victim's identified as Prue Chadacre, a secretary at the Historic Buildings National Drawings Archive, the plot thickens, as Slider and Atherton learn that Chadacre changed her birth name—and that the place she died was the site of another supposedly fatal accident decades earlier. Slider, who never met a pun he didn't like (he complains that he'd expected the film Dunkirk "was going to be William Shatner's autobiography"), and who's a devoted family man, is a refreshing alternative to the dour leads of many police procedurals. Fans of Catherine Aird's witty Inspector C.D. Sloan books will be hooked.
