ORCHESTRATED DEATHMiddle-class middle-aged & according to his partner menopausal Detective Inspector Bill Slider is never going to make it to the Yard Passed over for promotion again the last thing he needs in his life or on his patch is an unidentifiable naked female corpse A priceless Stradivarius & a giant tin of olive oil are the only clues in an investigation that takes the steely-eyed furry-headed detective all the way from the exotic backstreets of Shepherd's Bush to far-flung Birmingham DEATH WATCHWhen a noted womaniser dies in mysterious circumstances in a sleazy motel & the whole of his murky past comes to light DI Bill Slider begins to question more than whether the game is worth the candle Right is right & indivisible As soon as he's solved the motel mystery & found out what the Neary boys & Gorgeous George are up to Slider's going to have to start putting his own house in orders NECROCHIPDetective Superintendent ' George' Dickson's replacement by DS ' Mad Ivan' Barrington
- a new broom determined to sweep clean
- is all par for the course for DI Bill Slider as he faces the unhygienic fact of a dismembered corpse in a catering establishment But there are still niggling questions to distract him why didn't Barrington like Dickson? What is the mystery of the stake-out they once did together? & why is Slider's home life in almost perpetual stride?