Dear Departed
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
It's Detective Inspector Bill Slider's day off and he had hoped to have
some quiet time with Joanna, his pregnant fiancée. But a woman's body is
found in the park and he finds himself back to work sooner than he
expected. At first glance, it looks as though the woman is the latest
victim of the "Park Killer." But it doesn't take Slider and his partner
Atherton long to establish that someone else was trying to pass the
killing off as the handiwork of the notorious serial killer. This murder
doesn't fit the pattern; this one was personal. The woman's
modest income and outlandish lifestyle don't match up. Turning to the
two most popular motives---money and passion---Slider and his team turn
up some puzzling anomalies in her life, not the least of which is the
number of men she took as lovers and the tangled relationships of her
family.In Slider's latest adventure, the prolific and masterful
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles draws from her great store of wit and warmth. The
good-hearted and delightfully flawed Slider charms readers into
accompanying him down any path, no matter how dangerous.
some quiet time with Joanna, his pregnant fiancée. But a woman's body is
found in the park and he finds himself back to work sooner than he
expected. At first glance, it looks as though the woman is the latest
victim of the "Park Killer." But it doesn't take Slider and his partner
Atherton long to establish that someone else was trying to pass the
killing off as the handiwork of the notorious serial killer. This murder
doesn't fit the pattern; this one was personal. The woman's
modest income and outlandish lifestyle don't match up. Turning to the
two most popular motives---money and passion---Slider and his team turn
up some puzzling anomalies in her life, not the least of which is the
number of men she took as lovers and the tangled relationships of her
family.In Slider's latest adventure, the prolific and masterful
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles draws from her great store of wit and warmth. The
good-hearted and delightfully flawed Slider charms readers into
accompanying him down any path, no matter how dangerous.