Orchestrated Death: 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 watch, is an unidentifiable naked female corpse. Death Watch: When a noted womanizer dies in a sleazy motel and the whole of his murky past comes to light, DI Bill Slider begins to question more than whether the game is worth the candle. As soon as he's solved the motel mystery, Slider's going to have to start putting his own house in order... Necrochip: Detective 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.