'Good characterisation,dialogue and a well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible'Daily TelegraphWhen a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath,Sarah Tucker - a young married woman,bored and unhappy with domestic life - becomes obsessed with finding her. Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband's wearisome business clients for dinner,Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew,as her investigation reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living,while the living are fast joining the dead. What begins in a peaceful neighbourhood reaches its climax on a remote,unwelcoming Scottish island as the search puts Sarah in league with a man who finds himself being hunted down by murderous official forces.
Publisher: John Murray PressISBN: 9781473646971Number of pages: 416Weight: 320 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 30 mm
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Good characterisation,dialogue and a well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible
Mick Herron
Kicking off with 2010's Slow Horses,Mick Herron's Slough House series has lit a match under the British spy genre. With its world-wary coterie of misfits and starring the cunning Jackson Lamb,Herron is now at the front rank of espionage fiction and considered by many to be the true spiritual successor to Len Deighton.
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