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Title: Gone Tomorrow: A Bill Slider Mystery by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles ISBN: 0-312-30046-8 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: not as bad as it was made out to be
Comment: This is my first bill slider mystery. Without having been prejudiced by other bill slider books, I enjoyed this one immensely. I agree that the ending is a bit rushed and can be improved upon. However, the dialogues are lively and witty; the characters are well-developed. (For a mystery, that is. After all, this is not supposed to be a "character piece.") What I found most amazing was how Ms. Harrod-Eagles can bring a character alive in a few paragraphs by a description of his mannerisms and his speech. I would definitely recommend this book for someone who has not read her other bill slider books.
Rating: 3
Summary: 9th Bill Slider a little dull, but Joanna & Sue resolved !
Comment: We've had to wait close to four years for the latest (Brit) Detective Inspector Bill Slider since "Blood Sinister", so we were delighted to get hold of this hardback and catch up on Slider and love-interest and roommate Joanna; his sidekick Atherton (and his new love interest, Joanna's friend Sue); and the gang at Shepherd's Bush PD. The plot gets going in a hurry as a dead body is discovered in a park; and we're off and running despite a paucity of clues in this entertaining police procedural. It takes an awfully long time and another body or two to head the good guys to the right solution, so the reading gets a little logy at times. Meanwhile, we learn Joanna did take the orchestra job over on the continent, so her live-in relationship with Bill is pretty cold -- phone calls and an occasional visit or two per month is causing its own share of frustrations for our ever so gentle leading man.
Harrod-Eagles is a lovely writer who gets us inside the heads and hearts of our favorite characters. While they busily solve crimes, the leading characters become our friends and companions, and their relationships and affairs matter to us. Their skills at solving murders and other crimes are impressive, and generally the plots satisfy. This one is probably a tad weaker than some other entries in the series, but we do finally find out the status of Joanna and Bill, and Sue and Atherton. In all honesty, this novel will probably appeal to the author's faithful fan club; but read standalone without the previous eight as background, it would probably generate only lukewarm enthusiasm among the average reader. Hopefully now that some of the love-life stuff is resolved, maybe the zip will be back in the tenth entry to be released mid-year 2004. New readers might well just wait.
Rating: 3
Summary: This is a Weak Book in the Series!
Comment: I love Ms. Harrod-Eagles' Bill Slider. He is one of my favourite Police Detectives out there right now. He's smart, funny and has a droll sense of humour, and he's a genuinely nice guy. But I was disappointed with this book. It was somewhat disjointed and had a loose plot. The reader figures out who the bad guy is practically right away and it's a matter of reading to find out how they manage to get him. And even there we are thwarted because the ending is rushed and we don't actually get the satisfaction of seeing the bad guy nailed with the evidence. Ms. Harrod-Eagles' dry wit and her puns are still excellent though, and I will continue to read this series.
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Title: Blood Sinister (Inspector Bill Slider Mysteries) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles ISBN: 0312274858 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Shallow Grave: A Bill Slider Mystery (Inspector Bill Slider Mysteries) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles ISBN: 0684837773 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Blood Lines: An Inspector Bill Slider Mystery by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles ISBN: 0684800470 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Killing Time (Inspector Bill Slider Mysteries) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles ISBN: 0380732025 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Grave Music: An Inspector Bill Slider Mystery (Inspector Bill Slider Mysteries) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles ISBN: 0684800462 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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