Mick Herron, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1467-4
This tight, literary, cliché-free novel, the second in British author Herron's Zoë Boehm series (after Down Cemetery Road
) but the first to be published in the U.S., finds the Oxford private detective investigating three mysteries:...
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Mick Herron, Author . Carroll & Graf $25.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-78671-827-6
In Herron's dazzling third Zoë Boehm adventure, the second to appear in the U.S. (after 2004's The Last Voice You Hear
), the struggling London PI gets mixed up with, among others, a suicidal widower, a battered wife, a baby-faced...
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Mick Herron, Author . Soho Constable $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-56947-504-1
Near the start of this masterful thriller from Herron (Why We Die
), Jaime Segura, a young immigrant to Britain with a gun, takes several hostages one morning at the South Oxford Nursery School, including a teacher, the school’s cleaner,...
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Mick Herron, Author . Soho Constable $25 (269p) ISBN 978-1-56947-564-5
In this assured mystery from British author Herron (Reconstruction
), Sarah Tucker, a freelance publisher who also raises ostriches, identifies a body dredged from the River Tyne in Newcastle as her friend Zoë Boehm, an apparent suicide. Tucker,
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Mick Herron, Author Soho Constable 25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56947-643-7
Banished to London’s Slough House—the junkyard for disgraced MI5 agents—for botching a high-profile training exercise, River Cartwright spends his days sifting through garbage and transcribing phone conversations in Herron’s riveting spy thriller....
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Mick Herron. Soho Crime, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61695-225-9
In the opening chapter of Herron’s funny, clever sequel to 2010’s Slow Horses (2010), low-level British spy, Dickie Bow, dies on a bus to Oxford of apparently natural causes. To Jackson Lamb, the thoroughly unlikable head of Slough House (“the...
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Mick Herron. Soho Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61695-486-4
In this superb thriller, CWA Gold Dagger Award–winner Herron returns to the secretive world of British intelligence featured in his two Slough House novels, Slow Horses and Dead Lions. Thomas Bettany, a former undercover specialist who came apart...
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Mick Herron. Soho Crime, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-612-7
The disgraced spies at MI5’s Slough House must try to save one of their own in CWA Gold Dagger Award–winner Herron’s outstanding third thriller featuring uncouth Jackson Lamb and crew (after 2013’s Dead Lions). When one of these “slow horses,”...
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Mick Herron. Soho Crime, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61695-647-9
In Herron’s terrific, and terrifically funny, fourth Slough House novel (after 2016’s Real Tigers), London’s intelligence teams are on full alert after a suicide bomber kills dozens in a mall. But at Slough House, the home of British spies put out...
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Mick Herron. Soho Crime, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-61695-861-9
At the start of this beautifully written and ingeniously plotted standalone from Herron (Nobody Walks), 26-year-old mail room employee Maggie Barnes is trying hard not to get caught late one night in her 27-story London office building. Harvey Wells,
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Mick Herron. Soho Crime, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61695-961-6
British author Herron’s superlative fifth Slough House novel (after 2017’s Spook Street) opens with a terrorist attack in Derbyshire that kills 12. All MI5 resources are looking for the culprits—with the notable exception of the “slow horses,” the...
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Mick Herron. Soho Crime, $26.95 (360p) ISBN 978-1-64129-055-5
Herron’s enjoyable sixth Slough House novel (after 2018’s London Rules) offers a jaundiced look at espionage in the Brexit age. Jackson Lamb is in charge of Slough House, the decrepit London building where MI5 operatives end up because of a botched...
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Mick Herron. Soho Crime, $27.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-64129-236-8
British author Herron’s superb seventh Slough House novel (after 2019’s Joe Country) opens with an unidentified woman’s assassination whose significance gradually becomes clear in this darkly satiric update on the “slow horses,” spies who have each...
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Mick Herron. Soho Crime, $24.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-64129-302-0
The 11 entries in British author Herron’s first story collection offer wit, original metaphors, surprising plots, and seemingly placid scenes full of sinister undercurrents. Highlights include the seamlessly constructed title story, in which a man...
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Mick Herron. Soho Crime, $27.95 (360p) ISBN 978-1-64129-337-2
The disappearance of Sophie de Greer, a “superforecaster” who predicts voter reactions to British government policies, drives Herron’s terrific eighth Slough House novel (after 2021’s Slow Horses). Since de Greer might be a Russian plant, two...
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Mick Herron. Soho Crime, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-641-29521-5
Herron departs from his bestselling Slough House series for a riveting standalone thriller that combines modern political machinations with Cold War–era spy craft. New leadership in the British parliament results in the official cancellation of...
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