Death to Go/an Inspector Bill Slider Mystery

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Summary: A finger is all they have to go on
Review: Finding a finger in a packet of chips leads Shepherd's Bush Inspector, Bill Slider, and his side Kick Atherton into the strangest of crimes - what is the significance of the Chinese angle? where do computers fit into it all? and why are all the people they try to interview about the crime suddenly dying? - they still don't even know the identity of the finger - or where the rest of the body is.

This is the third novel in Cynthia Harrod-Eagles series of Bill Slider mysteries and the story I thought was one of her best - although I found the ending a bit of a cop out - it was another unsatisfying end where - while the ending is known I found there to be no real resolution. Each time Slider and Atherton manage to peel back another layer in the crime it seems to take them deeper into confusion. Nothing seems to make sense and they still don't know who the finger belongs too.

Meanwhile things aren't too good for Slider- his home life is falling apart, his lover is not happy and is rejecting him and at work he has to deal with 'Mad Ivan" Barrington whose petty dictates are causing great disatisfaction at the station.

This novel was published in Britain as 'Necrochip' so the title might confuse those who think it is a new novel in the Bill Slider series. This is definitely a very readable mystery and well worth picking up and giving a try. She isn't as good at writing secondary characters, but her crime investigation is gripping stuff.