by Cynthia Harrod - Eagles (Author)
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...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 05 Dec 2002
ISBN 10: 0751532274
ISBN 13: 9780751532272