The Last Voice You Hear

Praise for The Last Voice You Hear “With its vivid descriptions . . . and unexpected clues . . . The Last Voice You Hear is stylish and engaging.” — Washington Post "Unexpected and satisfying . . . The engaging heroine never loses her cool, from the melancholy opening to the whirlwind finale, a marvelously extended set-piece." — Kirkus Reviews "[A] tight, literary, cliché-free novel." — Publishers Weekly “Thoroughly worth reading.” — Booklist Praise for Mick Herron "Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way." —The New York Times Book Review   “Good characterization, dialogue and well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible.” —Daily Telegraph Informationen zum Autor 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 six books in the Slough House series ( Slow Horses ,  Dead Lions ,  Real Tigers ,  Spook Street ,  London Rules , and the novella  The List ) and four Oxford mysteries ( Down Cemetery Road ,  The Last Voice You Hear ,  Why We Die , and  Smoke and Whispers ), as well as the standalone novels  Reconstruction,  Nobody Walks   and  This Is What Happened . His work has won the CWA 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. Klappentext Oxford private investigator Zoë Boehm struggles with the aftereffects of her violent past as she hunts for a killer-or has she become the hunted? Zoë Boehm has harbored a distinct aversion to death ever since she shot the man intent on killing her. So when Caroline Daniels takes a deadly fall in front of a train and her lover fails to turn up at the funeral, Zoë wants nothing to do with the case. But Caroline's boss is persistent, and as Zoë attempts to unlock the secrets of a woman she's never met while in search of a man who could be anywhere, she starts to wonder if he's found her first. And if he has, will that make her the next victim, or prove to be her salvation from a paralyzing fear?“She’s the one.”        She wore black jeans, red top, a black leather jacket; she had dark curly hair and was old—forty, fifty, somewhere round that—with a shoulder bag that swung like an invitation: banging heavy on her hip, loaded with purses, credit cards and women’s stuff; everything she’d need in the big bad city. Definite out-of-towner. She should have had victim tattooed on her forehead.        “Yessss . . .”        Andrew, who answered to Dig these days, let it out in one long breath. Yessss. She was the one. You waited long enough, your ticket to the party arrived. The party started tomorrow—all around, the old millennium drained away like dirty water from a sink—and here she was, just the ticket: a bag with a bag. Drifting down the arcade, her attention swallowed by a glittery window’s expensive promises: they’d have the bag, that jacket off her back even, and all she’d ever know about it was Some You Lose. The credit cards, the money, were as good as in their pockets.        Beside him, Wez muttered something purple-sounding. He looked like he’d melt in your mouth, but had a vocabulary could stop a train.        And another spat of water hit Dig’s neck. They were leaning on one of the concrete stanchions that supported the building overhead, and once every couple of minutes enough moisture gathered up there to loosen and splash on Dig’s neck. It would have been pussy to move because he was dripped...

Product details

• Authors: Mick Herron, MICK HERRON
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2015
• EAN: 9781616955847
• ISBN: 978-1-61695-584-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 190 mm x 19 mm
• Series: OXFORD; OXFORD
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense