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Fell Purpose (Bill Slider #12)
The brand-new Bill Slider Mystery - Bank Holiday Monday, and beautiful Zellah Wilding straight-A student, prefect, future Head Girl lies deadnear the famous Wormwood Scrubs prison in London. What was this good Christian girl doing out there, dressed to kill, when she was supposed to be at a sleep-over with schoolfriends? A secret boyfriend from a run-down estate and a rece...more
ebook, 272 pages
Published
April 1st 2011
by Severn House Digital
(first published 2009)
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‘Fell Purpose’ by Cynthia Harrod Eagles
Published by Severn House, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-7278-6842-8
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...more
Published by Severn House, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-7278-6842-8
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...more
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...more
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...more
This is another wonderful installment in one of my favorite series. Harrod-Eagles writes British police novels much as P.D. James, Ruth Rendell and Peter Robinson do, but she has the extra fun of humor. She loves puns and word play which always add to the story - the chapter titles alone are worth a look. She is also more concise than any of the above mentioned folks, much as I love them - this is sometimes appreciated. This story concerns an upper class girl found on the grounds of Wormwood Scr...more
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One reviewer of this book found it excessively punny. I, however, love the punniness & think the reviewer just doesn't get British humor. This is a great series which manages to convey the impact of quite serious crimes while dealing with the personal lives of the series regulars. In this outing, a young girl is found murdered near a fairgrounds. We get conflicting reports of the girl's life from her parents, her teachers, her friends & her former boyfriend, so the murderer is not appare...more
Mar 07, 2013
Gabi Coatsworth
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5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
mystery,
literary-fiction
Full disclosure: One reason I love this book is because I grew up in West London, where this series of books is set. And I suspect the author is roughly my age too, which makes the cultural references easy for me to follow. The main character, DI Bill Slider is a real person, as are the members of his team, and they've developed nicely as the series has goner on. If you can stand certain words that your Kindle OED won't be able to define (due to their Britishness or just sheer rarities) and you...more
This one returns to the excellent word play and humor between all the detectives. The question of whodunnit and why leads the team down a lot of paths - too many candidates instead of too few. As always, Slider's home life makes for great reading, too. I want to be as good a wife as Joanna is.
Jul 28, 2011
Natalie
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
england,
murder-mystery
Reading Bill Slider is like spending some time in a pair of favorite mocassins with a cup of tea and a great view to enjoy when your mind wanders from the page - great stuff, a real quiet pleasure with just the right amount of humour.
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Excellent! After the first few pages, I realized I had already read this. I even remembered the solution! Nevertheless, I read it again anyway because I so enjoy the characters and the repartee in this highly literate series that still hasn't gone stale.
Mar 20, 2012
Kate
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
british-mystery,
police-procedural
Nothing particularly special about the plot, just a good, solid Bill Slider mystery. Extra points because the dialogue is witty and pun-filled.
Audiobook read by Terry Wale, who has read most of the series and whose voice fits very well
The Bill Slider series continues to improve and I truly enjoy the author's puns and wordplay.
Bill Slider just gets better and better. I love the quips all the way through, Porson's malaprops, and Atherton's cheek. Slider is just so human, and one of my favourite fictional detectives.
good old fashioned mystery--murdered girl with witnesses only seeing part of the story. clues and interviews come together. good, not great, but always fun to read. humor is a nice addition.
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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (aka Emma Woodhouse, Elizabeth Bennett)
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was born on13 August 1948 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, where was educated at Burlington School, a girls' charity school founded in 1699, and at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, where she studied English, history and philosophy.
She had a variety of jobs in the commercial world, start...more
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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was born on13 August 1948 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, where was educated at Burlington School, a girls' charity school founded in 1699, and at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, where she studied English, history and philosophy.
She had a variety of jobs in the commercial world, start...more
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