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*From the creator of SLOW HORSES and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson* ''If you haven''t read Zoe Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction'' Val McDermid, author of Past Lying ''Unexpected and satisfying . . . The engaging heroine never loses her cool, from the melancholy opening to the whirlwind finale, a marvellously extended set-piece'' Kirkus Zoe 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, Zoe wants nothing to do with the case. But Caroline''s boss is persistent, and as Zoe 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 paralysing fear?
About the author
Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award, two CWA Daggers, been published in twenty-five languages, and are the basis of a major TV series starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. He is also the author of the Zoë Boehm series, and the standalone novels Nobody Walks and The Secret Hours. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.
