Shadow Play (A Detective Inspector Slider Mystery, 20)

Bill Slider and his team investigate the murder of a victim with a decidedly shady past in this gripping contemporary mystery.

The body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Simpson's car workshop. But there's no ID in the pockets and Eli swears he's never seen the man before.

Then a girlfriend turns up with a name, and claims the victim told her he was someone's right hand man. But old fractures and scars, discovered at the autopsy, suggest a more colourful past. For right hand man, DCI Bill Slider and his team read 'enforcer'.

So who was Mr King? Who was he the muscle for? What did he have to do with the Davy Lane project, and the blackmailing of an MP? And, most crucially, what did he know that made someone decide to terminally muscle the muscle?

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was born and educated in London and had a variety of jobs in the commercial world before becoming a full-time writer. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed Bill Slider mysteries and the historical Morland Dynasty series. She lives in London, is married with three children and enjoys music, wine, gardening, horses and the English countryside.