Blood Never Dies (Bill Slider Series #15)

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Overview

A boiling-hot August day and a handsome young man is found dead in his bath, exsanguinated. Bill Slider’s colleague takes one look at the body and is convinced something isn’t quite right. As Bill investigates, he reluctantly has to agree. But as Slider and his team try to identify the man – whose personal papers are missing, along with his wallet and keys – it seems that the more they find out about him, the less they really know . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847514554
Publisher:	Severn House Publishers
Publication date:	02/15/2014
Series:	Bill Slider Series , #15
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was born and educated in Shepherd's Bush, London and had a variety of jobs in the commercial world, starting as a junior cashier at Woolworth's and working her way down to Pensions Officer at the BBC. She won the Young Writer's Award in 1973, and became a full-time writer in 1978. She is the author of sixty successful novels to date, including the twenty-five volumes of the Morland Dynasty series.
www.billslider.com

Editorial Reviews

"Clever, engaging, and well plotted, this is a fine example of the British police procedural and sure to be a hit with genre buffs and Anglophiles"

Booklist

"Clever, engaging, and well plotted, this is a fine example of the British police procedural and sure to be a hit with genre buffs and Anglophiles"

Booklist

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. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

"A sly wit that leavens this richly detailed mystery is a bonus."
Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

Narrator Terry Wale skillfully presents this police procedural with its ever-increasing number of victims and suspects. Detective Bill Slider has his work cut out for him when an apparent suicide turns out to be murder. The victim doesn't look like a porn star or a drug user, but the investigation leads Slider into those seamy environs as additional murders with the same M.O. take place. Wale portrays a warm and concerned Slider and the hilarious Detective Sergeant Rita Connelly, who is from Dublin. His best characterization is that of Detective Sergeant Porson, whose malapropisms keep the story from becoming too bleak. After many false leads, listeners will be impressed at how cleverly the murderer is unmasked. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine

JANUARY 2015 - AudioFile

How many murders gussied up to look like suicides can a killer get away with before DI Bill Slider catches on? The bathroom was very tidy. No great spurts of arterial blood. No water sloshed on the tiles. The naked body showed no signs of struggle. Still, something didn't seem quite right, and it wasn't. The victim was left-handed, but the fatal gash had been made by a right-handed person. Who was the dead bloke? There was no wallet, no papers and no cellphone to identify him. His neighbors barely knew him, and the name he gave them, Robin Williams, was surely an alias. Once Slider, Atherton and the rest of the crew at the Shepherd's Bush nick start showing his picture around, they soon discover that his hair dye job was recent. So were his tattoo and his stint in a porn video. Furthermore, for some reason, he bought an out-of-print recording by a group called Breaking Wave that brings sex, drugs and rock-and-roll into the investigation. There'll be several more bodies, most like the first--neat kills made to appear as suicides--but with drugs in their system, and a late-night come-on from a mysterious lady. Who was she--someone from Robin's distant past as a pop star and music journalist, from his recent past as a disco bartender, or from his current life, which includes dancing school? Using Atherton as bait, the coppers plan to inveigle the perp to try one more murder in the hope of catching him in the act. Between his love Joanna's grouchiness, his superior's lack of patience, and the case's seamier byways and drug-addled persons of interest, it's not the easiest of times for Slider (Kill My Darling, 2012, etc.), but most readers will want to spend even these dour moments with him.

Kirkus Reviews