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Format:Hardcover
First Sentence: Atherton was singing as he drove.
Zellah Wilding is smart, attends a very good school and has a strict father who tries to keep her on the right path and out of trouble. She is also pregnant and dead. Inspector Bill Slider and his team are out to find her killer.
With each new Bill Slider book, my love this series and CHE's writing is renewed. There is a great opening sentence and hook which immediately some of the main characters and gives the reader a bit of their background and relationships.
With the book's opening sentence, I realized how much I had missed reading about these characters.
The characters are all well-drawn and fully developed. But more than that, I appreciate that the Slider team like and respect each other. There are no anti-social, angst-driven acrimonious characters here. Lest you think this might make the characters boring, they are anything but.
One of my favorites is Porson, Sliders superior, who supports and respects his men, but can mangle phrases such as "It's the early day that catches the worm." And "There's more than one way to butter a parsnip." I think CHE must have enormous fun writing Porson's dialogue, but he is not a foolish character, and that takes particular skill. The dialogue is very well done. I occasionally am caught by a Britishism but can always figure them out. She does write in the dialect of the characters, which add realism and personality, but didn't slow down my reading.
The story provides the reader a strong sense of place. One thing I love about English mysteries is the history of England itself. In this case, the crime takes place at Wormwood Scrubs, a name I know from reading historical mysteries. Bits of area's histories are seamlessly intertwined into the story. London is not a city I know well, having been there only once for a short time, yet I always had a sense of where the characters were.
The story's plot was so well done. This is not another serial killer book, but a classic murder investigation. There is one murder of a young woman followed by focused police procedure to find the killer. What a nice change.
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles is one of those writers I feel should be much better know and more widely read. The book jacket compares Slider to John Harvey's Charlie Resnick. I don't know that I completely agree with the character comparison, but I would compare the quality of both author's writing. My only hope is that there will continue to be new Bill Slider books for many years to come.
FELL PURPOSE (Pol. Prod-Bill Slider-England-Cont) - Ex
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - 12th in series
Severn House, 2009, UK Hardcover - ISBN: 9780727868428
Zellah Wilding is smart, attends a very good school and has a strict father who tries to keep her on the right path and out of trouble. She is also pregnant and dead. Inspector Bill Slider and his team are out to find her killer.
With each new Bill Slider book, my love this series and CHE's writing is renewed. There is a great opening sentence and hook which immediately some of the main characters and gives the reader a bit of their background and relationships.
With the book's opening sentence, I realized how much I had missed reading about these characters.
The characters are all well-drawn and fully developed. But more than that, I appreciate that the Slider team like and respect each other. There are no anti-social, angst-driven acrimonious characters here. Lest you think this might make the characters boring, they are anything but.
One of my favorites is Porson, Sliders superior, who supports and respects his men, but can mangle phrases such as "It's the early day that catches the worm." And "There's more than one way to butter a parsnip." I think CHE must have enormous fun writing Porson's dialogue, but he is not a foolish character, and that takes particular skill. The dialogue is very well done. I occasionally am caught by a Britishism but can always figure them out. She does write in the dialect of the characters, which add realism and personality, but didn't slow down my reading.
The story provides the reader a strong sense of place. One thing I love about English mysteries is the history of England itself. In this case, the crime takes place at Wormwood Scrubs, a name I know from reading historical mysteries. Bits of area's histories are seamlessly intertwined into the story. London is not a city I know well, having been there only once for a short time, yet I always had a sense of where the characters were.
The story's plot was so well done. This is not another serial killer book, but a classic murder investigation. There is one murder of a young woman followed by focused police procedure to find the killer. What a nice change.
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles is one of those writers I feel should be much better know and more widely read. The book jacket compares Slider to John Harvey's Charlie Resnick. I don't know that I completely agree with the character comparison, but I would compare the quality of both author's writing. My only hope is that there will continue to be new Bill Slider books for many years to come.
FELL PURPOSE (Pol. Prod-Bill Slider-England-Cont) - Ex
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - 12th in series
Severn House, 2009, UK Hardcover - ISBN: 9780727868428
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Another excellent novel in the wonderful Slider series.....an enjoyable mystery with several good red herrings - an easy plot line, not too hard to work out how it was going, but still a good light read.
One of the best parts, as has already been said by a previous reviewer, is reading about a police force who actually like each other and dont have a mountain of personal problems that they constantly whine about and which seem to take over in so many detective series these days.
Also Porson is a total gem !
My one niggle, and it is just a little niggle, is the author's lack of knowledge of telephone systems.....I cant really say more without spoiling a bit of the plot, but in reality the investigation would have moved on far more rapidly in 2009 with our current technology....the times when the police had to wait days for information records are long gone.
Apart from that, an excellent light read and look forward to the next instalment.
One of the best parts, as has already been said by a previous reviewer, is reading about a police force who actually like each other and dont have a mountain of personal problems that they constantly whine about and which seem to take over in so many detective series these days.
Also Porson is a total gem !
My one niggle, and it is just a little niggle, is the author's lack of knowledge of telephone systems.....I cant really say more without spoiling a bit of the plot, but in reality the investigation would have moved on far more rapidly in 2009 with our current technology....the times when the police had to wait days for information records are long gone.
Apart from that, an excellent light read and look forward to the next instalment.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Inspector Bill Slider is now a father, and the elegant Sergeant Atherton now has a steady girlfriend. It's a Bank Holiday and Bill has arranged to take Katie and Matthew, the children of his first marriage, and Joanna and the new baby, to visit his elderly father in Essex, whilst Atherton has arranged a day out with Emily. But both outings are off when the body of a young girl is found in the Wormwood Scrubs area.
Identified as Zellah Wilding, a straight A student from a good family - why was she murdered. But there are anomalies, why would she be seeing Ronnie Oates, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, and where is her mobile?
When they get a confession Porson looked as if he'd been thrown a life line, but Slider isn't sure. But as Porson says `Rhodes wasn't built in a day'
Whilst the main protagonist is Bill Slider who I like enormously as I do Atherton, like me as for any devotee of this series they must love the Porsonisms which abound in this book. Not sure if it's a good or bad thing that I love it when Superintendent Porson is in evidence supplying his own band of proverbial expertise. Highly recommended
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Lizzie Hayes
Other books in the series are, Orchestrated Death, Death Watch, Necrochip, Dead End, Blood Lines, Killing Time, Shallow Grave, Blood Sinister, Gone Tomorrow, Game Over
Identified as Zellah Wilding, a straight A student from a good family - why was she murdered. But there are anomalies, why would she be seeing Ronnie Oates, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, and where is her mobile?
When they get a confession Porson looked as if he'd been thrown a life line, but Slider isn't sure. But as Porson says `Rhodes wasn't built in a day'
Whilst the main protagonist is Bill Slider who I like enormously as I do Atherton, like me as for any devotee of this series they must love the Porsonisms which abound in this book. Not sure if it's a good or bad thing that I love it when Superintendent Porson is in evidence supplying his own band of proverbial expertise. Highly recommended
----
Lizzie Hayes
Other books in the series are, Orchestrated Death, Death Watch, Necrochip, Dead End, Blood Lines, Killing Time, Shallow Grave, Blood Sinister, Gone Tomorrow, Game Over
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As in all the books in this series, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles is able to make the reader laugh and cry on the same page.
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