Orchestrated Death by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Over the past twenty or so years I have listened to fourteen of the current nineteen 'Inspector Bill Slider' novels by Cynthia Harrold-Eagles and I have enjoyed every single one of them. This is a consistently solid series with some modest but pawky humour. How about a return to the comfort-zone after some mind-scarring forays into Teh Crap (Toys by Patterson, and The Heart Goes Last by Atwood). Was he killed for passion, professional jealousy, or plain old money? Bill Slider and his firm are thrown into the mystery, but they soon discover that nothing is as it seems, for though David’s girlfriends are plenty, none of them can tell Slider anything about where he worked or exactly what it was he did. He lived the lifestyle of a consultant – expensive clothes, top restaurants, exclusive clubs – until someone killed him in the hallway of his lovely million-plus house. In 1993 she won the Romantic Novelists' Association Romantic Novel of the Year Award with Emily, the third volume of her Kirov Saga, a trilogy set in nineteenth century Russia.ĭescription: David Rogers was a doctor, handsome, charming and rich. The series was originally intended to comprise twelve volumes, but it has proved so popular that it has now been extended to thirty-four. The birth of the MORLAND DYNASTY series enabled Cynthia Harrod-Eagles to become a full-time writer in 1979.

She wrote her first novel while at university and in 1972 won the Young Writers' Award with The Waiting Game. She had a variety of jobs in the commercial world, starting as a junior cashier at Woolworth's and working her way down to Pensions Officer at the BBC. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (aka Emma Woodhouse, Elizabeth Bennett)Ĭynthia Harrod-Eagles was born on 13 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.

Orchestrated Death by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles