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Dear Departed

Dear Departed

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Police in fictionDetective and mystery storiesBill Slider (Fictitious character)FictionSerial murders in fiction
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About this book

A young woman is found murdered in a park. Although the police believe it at first to be the work of a serial killer, after they discover how she was killed, they realize it is a more complicated story. Where does her sizeable income come from? Where is her missing half sister? And what do the secret codes mean in her personal diary?

Themes & subjects

Police in fictionDetective and mystery storiesBill Slider (Fictitious character)FictionSerial murders in fictionPolice

Setting

EnglandLondonLondon (England)

About the author

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

13 August 1948

Cynthia 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. 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. She wrote her first novel while at university and in 1972 won the Young Writers' Award with The Waiting Game. The birth of the MORLAND DYNASTY series enabled Cynthia Harrod-Eagles to become a full-time writer in 1979. The series was originally intended to com…

Author

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Pages

346

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

4

Language

English

Publisher

Thomas Dunne Books

ISBN

9780316724920

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