Fell Purpose by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Detective Inspector Bill Slider and his team from the Shepherd's Bush police station are called to the scene of the death of a teenage girl, Zellah Wilding. Zellah was an only child with an overprotective father and a mother who wanted to give her more freedom. While from a modest background, she was best friends with two girls who came from families that were well-off. After interviewing people who were close to Zellah, it appears that she showed different sides of herself to everyone and even had a secret man in her life. The police find no shortages of suspects and hope that they will find the man who ended Zellah's short life. Fell Purpose is the latest book in the long-running Bill Slider series. I'm so glad that Severn House has picked up the publishing of the series in the U.S. The books are not as well known as some of the other more popular British police procedurals, but just as good.