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Why We Die
by Mick HerronThe road to hell is paved with all sorts of intentions, as Oxford private investigator Zoë Boehm discovers when a straightforward jewelry store robbery turns out to be anything but. When Tim Whitby checks into a hotel in Oxford, he doesn't intend to check out again--but then he meets Katrina Blake, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Smoke and Whispers
by Mick HerronOxford private detective Zoë Boehm turns up dead in Newcastle, launching her friend Sarah Tucker into an investigation with several leads--but no one she can trust. When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Reconstruction
by Mick HerronIn this chillingly plausible thriller by CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron, "there is no hiding under the desk" (The New York Times Book Review).When a gunman breaks into South Oxford Nursery School and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy fears the worst. But Jaime Segura isn't there ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Nobody Walks
by Mick HerronSet in the same fictional London as his CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Slough House spy series, Mick Herron now introduces Tom Bettany, a man with a violent past and only one thing to live for: Avenging his son's death. Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicem... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Real Tigers
by Mick HerronLondon: Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after they've messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work. The "Slow Horses," as the failed spies of Slough House are called, are doomed to spend the rest of their careers pushing paper, but they all w... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The List: A Novella
by Mick HerronDieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. Death has revealed that the deceased had been keeping a secret second bank account—and there’s only ever one reason a spy has a secret second bank account. The question of whether he was a double agent m... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Spook Street
by Mick HerronA shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known to few modern spies. David Cartwright isn’t a modern spy, however; he’s legend and a bonafide Cold War hero. He’s also in his dotage and losing his mind to Alzheimer’s. His stories of “stotes” hiding in... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
This Is What Happened
by Mick HerronFrom CWA Gold & Steel Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of thrilling suspense about one woman’s attempt to be better than ordinary. Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in the huge city of London,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Marylebone Drop: A Novella
by Mick HerronA drop, in spook parlance, is the passing on of secret information. It’s also what happens just before you hit the ground. Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone café, he kn... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
London Rules (Slough House #5)
by Mick HerronIan Fleming. John le Carré. Len Deighton. Mick Herron. The brilliant plotting of Herron’s twice CWA Dagger Award-winning Slough House series of spy novels is matched only by his storytelling gift and an ear for viciously funny political satire. “Mick Herron is the John le Carré of our generation.” —... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Joe Country: Jackson Lamb Thriller 6 (Slough House #6)
by Mick HerronIf Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced MI5 spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, w... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Last Voice You Hear
by Mick HerronCaroline Daniels meets a terrible end beneath the wheels of a train. Strangely, her new lover Alan Talmadge fails to turn up at the funeral, and private investigator Zoe Boehm is hired to find him. Already struggling to come to terms with her own violent past and its damaging effect on her future,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
The Catch: A Novella (Slough House #2)
by Mick HerronBritish spy master Mick Herron returns with an explosive novella set in the same world as his multiple CWA Dagger–winning Slough House series John Bachelor is the saddest kind of spy: not a joe in the field, not even a desk jockey, but a milkman—a part-time pension administrator whose main job is to... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Slow Horses: Jackson Lamb Thriller 1 (Slough House #1)
by Mick HerronLet us be clear about this much at least: Slough House is not in Slough, nor is it a house...Slough House is Jackson Lamb's kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a secret file on a train, blown a surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They'... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Down Cemetery Road
by Mick HerronOne quiet evening in Oxford a house near Sarah Tucker's suddenly explodes. The cause is later reported to be a gas leak, but when a child disappears in the aftermath, Sarah -- a young married woman, bored and unhappy with her life -- becomes obsessed with trying to find her. Very soon she's left w... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Reconstruction
by Mick HerronWhen a man with a gun breaks into her school, nursery teacher Louise Kennedy knows there's not likely to be a happy ending. But Jaime isn't there on a homicidal whim, and is as scared as the hostages he's taken. While an armed police presence builds up outside, he'll only talk to Ben Whistler, an MI... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Smoke and Whispers
by Mick HerronWhen a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zoe Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoe kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? Why wa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Last Voice You Hear
by Mick HerronA woman is killed by a train and her lover doesn't show up at the funeral. PI Zoë Boehm is hired to find him. Attempting to unlock the woman's secrets, Zoe finds more and more questions.From the Trade Paperback edition.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Why We Die
by Mick HerronWhen Tim Whitby checks into a hotel, he's not intending to check out again -- but then he meets Katrina Blake, a woman in need of rescue. When Arkle, Baxter and Trent inherit the family business, they're not planning on making a go of it -- there are quicker ways of getting rich, if you're not sque... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Dead Lions
by Mick HerronLondon's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they're called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The List: A Novella
by Mick HerronDieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. Death has revealed that deceased had been keeping a secret second bank account--and there's only ever one reason a spy has a secret second bank account. The question of whether he was a double agent must... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Last Voice You Hear
by Mick HerronOxford private investigator Zoë Boehm struggles with the aftereffects of her violent past as she hunts for a killer--or has she become the hunted? Oxford private investigator Zoë Boehm has harbored a distinct aversion to death ever since she shot the man intent on killing her. So when middle-aged Ca... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers
Finally: the perfect stocking stuffer for the crime fiction lover in your life! With a foreword by CWA Diamond Award-winner Peter Lovesey, these eighteen delightful holiday stories by your favorite Soho Crime authors contain laughs, murders, and plenty more. This captivating collection, which featur... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Caballos lentos (Serie Jackson Lamb #Volumen 1)
by Mick HerronLlegan Mick Herron y su multipremiada serie protagonizada por Jackson Lamb para modernizar, con brillantez y humor, el género del espionaje. «La mejor serie de novela negra del siglo XXI.»The Mail on Sunday El reino del irreverente y sarcástico Jackson Lamb está en Londres y se llama Casa de la C... More
Language: SPACopyright: 2010 -
Leones muertos
by Mick HerronLeones muertos vuelve a poner en solfa a los agentes del MI5 apartados del cuerpo, que, sin pretenderlo, se topan con células durmientes y espías famosos de la Guerra Fría. Los agentes de la Casa de la Ciénaga, donde los mandos del servicio de inteligencia británico envían a los espías caídos en d... More
Language: SPACopyright: 2013