Before I Sleep
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5.0 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
‘An outstanding series’ – NEW YORK TIMES
The clock is ticking for Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his team as they attempt to track down a missing woman in the twenty-fourth entry in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' critically acclaimed crime series.
Felicity Holland is missing.
She left her handsome West London house to go to her weekly pottery class and didn’t come back. She’s a mature, sensible woman with a stable home life and a happy marriage – no reason to abscond. Her distraught husband is convinced she must have been snatched.
DCI Bill Slider and his team know that when a woman goes missing, you 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 you even start looking?
The clock is ticking. But as Slider tries to retrace the last known movements of Felicity Holland, he is led ever further down a dark and twisted path into the secret past of this beautiful, enigmatic woman.
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
A missing person's case drives Harrod-Eagles's intriguing 24th mystery featuring London Det. Chief Insp. Bill Slider (after 2022's Dying Fall). When Felicity Holland, the wife of author Henry Holland, who writes popular novels "about a ship-captain in the Napoleonic Wars," doesn't return home to Holland Park after her weekly pottery class, Henry is sure something untoward has happened. Fortunately for him, Henry has friends in high places, including the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, who ensures that Slider takes charge of the investigation to find Felicity. Progress is slow, Henry's patience is nil, and Slider is under immense pressure to uncover a solid lead. As tiny clues turn into wildly divergent paths of inquiry, Slider and his merry band of officers discover that the esteemed Mrs. Holland had her share of secrets. From posh manses in West London to Burnham Beeches, a woodland outside the city, Slider doggedly pursues the truth, however ugly it may be. Witty prose (Carpenter, Slider's immediate boss, has "all the warmth, charm and empathy of Vladimir Putin with a toothache") helps carry the clever plot to a satisfying conclusion. Harrod-Eagles reliably entertains.
