He is an older policeman who is tired and in an unhappy marriage. However, the book is probably about half about Bill's personal life. I liked Bill Slider's partner Atherton the most of all the characters. I liked the police procedural part of the book and if it had been mainly that would have given it four stars. It is a police procedural based in England.
Orchestrated Death is the first in the series. The Bill Slider series is one that I have been wanting to try as it has been around for awhile and seems popular. 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. 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.
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