Blood Sinister (A Bill Slider Mystery Book 8)

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. In her most gripping mystery yet, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles returns readers to the streets of London and the ever-struggling Detective Inspector Bill Slider. When the body of Phoebe Agnew, radical left-wing journalist, champion of the underdog, and prominent critic of the police force, is discovered, Inspector Slider must put aside any personal feelings for the victim and find In her most gripping mystery yet, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles returns readers to the streets of London and the ever-struggling Detective Inspector Bill Slider.

When the body of Phoebe Agnew, radical left-wing journalist, champion of the underdog, and prominent critic of the police force, is discovered, Inspector Slider must put aside any personal feelings for the victim and find her killer. One of the first clues Slider finds is that on the day of her death the horribly undomesticated Agnew cooked an elaborate meal for someone. Was it her old friend and reputed lover, Josh Prentiss? Slider tries to pursue that angle, but since Prentiss is a Government advisor, the pressure is on Slider to look elsewhere.

There are plenty anomalies for him to chase: As Slider struggles to untangle the web of lies and hidden relationships, his task is made harder by the strange behavior of his friend and colleague, Atherton, who seems to be on the verge of a breakdown. Tightly plotted and full of fascinating characters, Slider searches to find the key to Agnew's chillingly lonely life, but will he find it in time to prevent further tragedy?

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To ask other readers questions about Blood Sinister , please sign up. Lists with This Book. View all 4 comments. Jun 04, Jon rated it really liked it. I planned to read this series in order, but I've been traveling, and this is one of the few I could get on my Kindle. This writer is right on my wave-length. I laugh at her jokes and puns, which are many, and I admire her vivid characterizations and realistic dialogue. This one involved auld acquaintances and relationships which the detectives had to unearth--usually the kind of thing that irritates me, but here I thought it worked well.

I have to say, reading three of these over a short period of time, I do find the plots unnecessarily complicated, and the author is particularly fascinated with unwanted pregnancies and subsequent offspring. Not to be too much of a shrink, but you have to wonder what's in her past that she is having trouble settling the score with that makes these themes so interesting to her.

ANyway, this is competently written, and the author should not be read in bulk and all will be fine. THis one is potenti I have to say, reading three of these over a short period of time, I do find the plots unnecessarily complicated, and the author is particularly fascinated with unwanted pregnancies and subsequent offspring.

THis one is potentially better than the other two earlier books that I have read, it was just too much the same in plot to be able to discern that. Apr 25, Nancy rated it it was amazing Shelves: Blood Sinister is proper police procedural with a now familiar cast. Well, familiar if you have been reading the series in order as I have. A journalist has been strangled and the evidence at the crime scene just doesn't make sense. Bit by bit Slider and his team learn pieces of what happened but seem to make no progress toward finding out who did it.

But, of course in the end, they do. And Slider's love life is thrown for a loop again. Apr 07, Fiona Forthe rated it really liked it. I enjoy the wordplay in the books by this author. The plot was interesting, and the characters had distinct personalities. Jun 17, Kaye rated it liked it Shelves: Jul 24, Jerry B rated it it was amazing. We've only tried Bill Slider so far, but he's a wonderfully low-profile hero in the style of Dick Francis' leading men: That our author can get that feeling so consistently over eight stories is impressive, despite plots that are entertaining and often complex enough to bewilder til right near the end.

The series is best read in order, because part of the fun is following Bill's personal life as his somewhat flawed marriage is tested uncharacteristically for our straight arrow by a lovely violinist that turns his head. His unattached "playboy" sidekick Atherton has much the same "trouble" and the interplay between these two men makes interesting counterpoint to the thorough police work otherwise on display.

Indeed, we have come to know and like many of the precinct's supporting players beside our leading men. We're guessing Harrod-Eagles has either real life experience in an orchestra or a close friend in one, because her description of the lives and times of the players, and the politics and "affairs" in the symphony, are right on. If that's "just" the result of research, we're astounded! Maybe best of all, some personal dilemmas for Joanna our musician add some real kick to the story, right up to a cliff-hanger ending that can only be resolved in the next book -- hopefully being penned as we speak!

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So "Blood" seems to have it all: Sounds like 5-stars to us!! Dec 20, Christine Cody rated it it was amazing. The author has an uncanny ability with dialogue, accents, descriptions to allow us to visualize her characters perfectly. From the obviously fey ex-dancer and now arts editor "Oh, my dear, it was a spectacular disaster. Poor Noni was the best thing in it, and it was a complete kiss of death to her, poor lamb That's wot I reckon. Wimmin are nachrally tidy.

Looking after us, an' tidyin' up, it's in their make-up. That's why they're no good at inventin' things That's why you never get no wimmin inventors.

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The Bill Slider novels are police procedurals with heart: This book struck me a bit more personally today, a day after having to bury one of my cats, because a key character found his cat curled up under his favorite place to hang out, and decided to bury her there. Harrod-Eagles' men aren't afraid to cry, whether missing their mother, or grieving for one's dear cat. Feb 09, Damaskcat rated it it was amazing. Phoebe Agnew — an investigative journalist — is found dead in her flat.

During her career she has upset many different groups of people including the police but murder is murder and the culprit must be tracked down before anyone else loses their life. Battling with loose ends which appear to be dead ends and his sidekick, Jim Atherton, who seems to be heading for a breakdown, Slider has his work cut out. One of his suspects is an advisor to the government and he finds his investigations blocked Phoebe Agnew — an investigative journalist — is found dead in her flat. One of his suspects is an advisor to the government and he finds his investigations blocked at every turn when he starts asking awkward questions.

I found this an engrossing read with some very well drawn characters and some interesting motivations. The banter between the police colleagues is amusing and lightens the atmosphere and I love the chapter headings. This book can be read as a standalone story but it is better read as part of a series so that the development of the police characters can be followed.

I am enjoying reading the series because the books are well written, with very little bad language or on the page violence. There are plenty of serious issues involved in all the books and psychological depth to the characters and they are all the better for not being too violent in my opinion. Mar 20, Gill Quinn rated it it was amazing. A series of gruesome murders leaves the police force in Rome reeling, with no real clues or hard evidence to follow.

Assigned to the case is Sandra Vega, a brilliant forensic analyst, struggling to come to terms with the crimes and her own past. Sandra's shared history with Marcus, a member of the ancient Penitenzeri - a unique Italian team, linked to the Vatican, and trained in the detection of true evil, means that the two are brought together again in the pursuit of a malignant killer.

Soon Marcus and Sandra notice the emergence of a disturbing pattern running alongside the latest killings - and every time they think they have grasped a fragment of the truth, they are led down yet another terrifying path. A sensational new literary thriller from the bestselling author of The Whisperer, this novel captures the beautiful atmosphere of Rome and explores its dark and hidden secrets.

The year is , and the war is raging on. The war was not 'over by Christmas' after all and as begins, the Hunters begin to settle into wartime life. Diana, the eldest Hunter daughter, sees her fiance off to the Front but doesn't expect such coldness from her future mother-in-law. David's battalion is almost ready to be sent to the Front, but how will Beattie's fragile peace of mind endure?

Below stairs, Ethel, the under housemaid, is tired of having her beaux go off to war so she deliberately sets her sights on a man who works on the railway, believing he won't be allowed to volunteer. Eric turns out to be decent, honest and he genuinely cares about Ethel - is this the man who could give her a new life? The Hunters, their servants and their neighbours soon realise that war is not just for the soldiers, but it's for everyone to win, and every new atrocity that is reported bolsters British determination: Set against the real events of , this is an evocative, authentic and wonderfully depicted drama featuring the Hunter family and their servants.

In , Britain faces a new kind of war. For Edward and Beatrice Hunter, their children, servants and neighbours, life will never be the same again. For David, the eldest, war means a chance to do something noble; but enlisting will break his mother's heart. His sister Diana, nineteen and beautiful, longs for marriage. She has her heart set on Charles Wroughton, son of Earl Wroughton, but Charles will never be allowed to marry a banker's daughter. Below stairs, Cook and Ada, the head housemaid, grow more terrified of German invasion with every newspaper atrocity story. Ethel, under housemaid, can't help herself when it comes to men and now soldiers add to the temptation; yet there's more to this flighty girl than meets the eye.

The once-tranquil village of Northcote reels under an influx of khaki volunteers, wounded soldiers and Belgian refugees. The war is becoming more dangerous and everyone must find a way to adapt to this rapidly changing world. Set against the real events of , Goodbye Piccadilly is extraordinary in scope and imagination and is a compelling introduction to the Hunter family. A fatherless girl grows up a virtual prisoner in the shabby backwater of Kensington Palace, despised by her relations, bullied and insulted by her foolish mother's evil genius.

Only the core of stubbornness in her nature sustains her as she waits for the day of deliverance - the day she will become Queen of England. She is Victoria; this is her story, recorded in her own words in the last troubled year of her life. With humanity and humour the Queen Empress of half the world looks back over eighty crowded years, remembering domestic crisis and public triumph, war, revolution and the fall of dynasties; remembering most of all the great and abiding love that illuminated every aspect of her life.

This is the autobiography Queen Victoria might have written, and reveals the private woman behind the public mask - quick tempered, proud and incurably honest; shy, vulnerable and always, indefatigably, amused.

Blood Sinister (Bill Slider, book 8) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

When amateur sleuth detective Kate Shackleton receives a dawn telephone call from her cousin James, his news soon snaps Kate into wakefulness. The India Office seek her on-the-spot help in finding a Maharajah, last seen on the Bolton Abbey estate. He has with him a hugely valuable diamond. Investigative successes and good family connections put Kate in the highly trusted category. Perceived as 'establishment', Kate feels an outsider in her sympathies. One thing she is sure of: Qualities that she is sure will help her unravel the latest disappearance on that fateful summer's day.

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As Paris recoils under the turbulent political events of , young English governess Anne Peters finds herself penniless, homeless and alone. But while France prepares for war she seizes the chance of escape, to a new life in the service of dashing Count Nikolai Kirov,and a new home in the glittering Russian city of St Petersburg.

Thrown into the flamboyant and demanding circle of her new employer and his family, Anne moves between the city's splendour and the wild, untamed beauty of the Caucasus Mountains, and begins her transformation from Anne Peters into Anna Petrovna. But as Napoleon gathers his army for the final attack on Imperial Russia, Anna must prepare for a battle of the heart - her forbidden love for a man and a country she may never call her own. A dramatic love story set against the background of the Great War and the Russian Revolution. Emily Paget, poor relation of an earl, shocks her family with her determination to earn her own living, rather than suffer the tedium of a respectable marriage.

Whisked off to St Petersburg by her eccentric Russian grandmother, Emily finds the freedom she craves amongst the drawing-room revolutionaries. She also falls passionately in love for the first time, never dreaming how close they are to real revolution. When it comes, bloody and brutal, Emily's courage is tested to the full. Only she can save something from the wreck and bring the last of her family safe out of Russia.

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Harrod-Eagles is a master of the telling phrase or the catchy put-down. It's a good puzzle, with well-rounded characters and, fans will be happy to hear, plenty of the usual dreadful puns — Sunday Telegraph. Phoebe Agnew, hack journalist and no great fan of the police, is found dead. Her characters are deliciously droll, and she writes with all her customary biting wit and a complexity all too rare in mystery fiction. Sphere Kingdom of the Blind Louise Penny.