'An outstanding series' –NEW YORK TIMES

Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his team investigate two seemingly unrelated deaths with ties to a cold case in the eighteenth entry in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' critically acclaimed crime series.

A middle-aged man jumps under a tube train at Shepherd's Bush station. A teenage girl is killed in a hit-and-run, in a country lane puzzlingly far from her home on the White City Estate. Two seemingly unrelated incidents which occupy DCI Bill Slider and his team during a slack period.

But strange links to a cold case – another dead teenager, pulled out of the River Thames – create doubts as to whether they are as unrelated as they first appeared.

As Slider and his team investigate, slowly a trail of corruption and betrayal is uncovered. Can they follow the clues and uncover the truth behind these mysterious deaths?

Written with Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' signature sharp plotting and dry wit, this hard-hitting character-driven mystery is a must-read police procedural for fans of Mick Herron, Ann Cleeves and Peter Robinson.

Praise for the Bill Slider series:

'Slider and his creator are real discoveries'
Daily Mail

'Sharp, witty and well-plotted'
Times

'Harrod-Eagles and her detective hero form a class act. The style is fast, funny and furious - the plotting crisply devious'
Irish Times