Book description
In this ninth outing for the likeable detective, Inspector Bill Slider
is called to cope with a disfigured corpse grotesquely left in a
children's playground. His enquiries plunge him into the shadow world
behind the fashionable facade of Shepherd's Bush, among the victims of
the Welfare State and the crime barons who prey on them; a world where
no-one is who he says he is, and lying to the police is second nature.
Slider's thankless task is to convince the witnesses, against all
available evidence, that honesty really is the best policy. And with his
lover Joanna away, fate seems suddenly determined to strew his private
life with temptations… Cynthia Harrod-Eagles is the author of the
contemporary Bill Slider Mystery series s well as the Morland Dynasty
novels. Her passions are music, wine, horses, architecture and the
English countryside.
