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Zusatztext Praise for Smoke and Whispers “You can always tell when a pro is clicking on all cylinders. Smoke and Whispers ! Mick Herron's fifth novel! crackles from the start . . . Atmospheric! full of surprises! with some pools of seductive prose.” — ForeWord Reviews “In this assured mystery from British author Herron . . . does a nice job of planting red herrings and making [Sarah Tucker's] amateur sleuthing plausible.” —Publishers Weekly “ Smoke and Whispers is an electrifying story that doesn't let up from start to finish . . . A most original! satisfying suspense thriller.” —Mysterious Reviews “Always interesting and entertaining . . . Anyone who starts the Zoë ‘tetralogy’ will be rewarded by continuing with the series.” — 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 “Good characterization! dialogue and well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible.” —Daily Telegraph "Masterful . . . How Herron is able to tie all these events together will test the sleuthing ability of even the most savvy readers as one surprise engenders another. The intricate plot! coupled with Herron’s breezy writing style . . . results in superior entertainment that makes most other novels of suspense appear dull and slow-witted by comparison." —Publishers Weekly ! Starred Review 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 the Slough House espionage series, four Zoë Boehm 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, the Theakstons Novel of the Year Award, the Barry award and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and been nominated for the Macavity and Shamus awards. Slow Horses and Down Cemetery Road have both been adapted into Apple Original series. Mick is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He currently lives in Oxford and writes full-time. Klappentext Oxford 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 detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoë kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? Why was she wearing the jacket a murderer had stolen years before? And what's brought Sarah's former sparring partner Gerard Inchon to the same broken-down hotel where she's staying? Coincidence is an excuse that soon appears pretty unconvincing. Sarah can't leave until she's found the answers to her questions, however dangerous they might turn out to be. Chapter 1 It was dark, but there were stars upon the water. They reflected from the lights strung on the bridges, from the windows of the still-lit buildings, from the yellow shuttle bus pulling away along the quay, but most of all from the searchlights on the police launch: dabs of light that pricked out the body bobbing on the river like a chalk outline on concrete. Small groups on the Gateshead Millennium Bridge watched events unfold. “There was a time the city would have been fast asleep by now.” “...
