Down Cemetery Road

Mick Herron

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From the author of Slow Horses and soon to be an Original Series from Apple TV+ starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson.

CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron's debut novel introduces Sarah Tucker, whose search for a missing child unravels a murderous conspiracy.

When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a 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 neighborhood reaches its climax on a remote, unwelcoming Scottish island as the search puts Sarah in league with a man being hunted down by murderous official forces.

Book Details

Publisher: Soho Crime
Publish Date: Mar 10th, 2015
Pages: 360
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.50in - 1.00in - 0.70lb
EAN: 9781616955830
Categories: • Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths• Thrillers - General• Mystery & Detective - International Crime & Mystery

About the Author

Mick Herron is a British novelist and short story writer who was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford. He is the author of the Slough House espionage series, four Oxford mysteries, and several standalone novels. His work has won the CWA Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement in Crime Writing, the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, Shamus, and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards. He currently lives in Oxford and writes full-time.

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Praise for Down Cemetery Road

"[Herron's] first novel, Down Cemetery Road, begins with the funniest dinner party scene I have ever read, and then, after a nearby explosion, shifts into thriller territory."
--Los Angeles Review of Books

"Good characterization, dialogue and well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible."
--The Daily Telegraph

"[Down Cemetery Road] shifts from domesticity with violence and private detectives--initially seeming something like Kate Atkinson's detective novels in both the quality of the writing and the lightness of tone--to something like Christopher Brookmyre at his best . . . Herron is a major writer of considerable wit and talent."
--International Noir Fiction

Praise for Mick Herron

"Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Stylish and engaging."
--The Washington Post

"A superb thriller . . . Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today."