The Last Voice You Hear is the second in the four-book series featuring Zoë Boehm, a private investigator living in Oxford.
The series is being adapted for television with Emma Thomson as Zoë and Ruth Wilson as Sarah Tucker. Emma and Ruth will have quite a few edge-of-the seat adventures as readers will testify after reaching the final page of The Last Voice You Hear.
Mick Herron’s quirky style will take a while to be accepted by some readers. Those who persevere will not be disappointed.
Caroline Daniels lives in Oxford and commutes to London by train. She has worked for Amory Grayling for many years. One morning she doesn’t turn up. Caroline has fallen in front of a train and is dead.
It’s accepted as an accident by the police. Grayling, however, has concerns and asks Zoë to make inquiries.
Complications arise as she takes on another investigation and an admirer starts to stalk her. Violence, death, corrupt police and ostriches add to the excitement.
It takes a while before Sarah Tucker pops onto the page. She has a new man in her life, Russell, Fortunately, Sarah has briefed him about the difficulties in her past and the problems that are likely should Zoë suddenly appear.
Zoë does appear, followed by the baddies. The baddies push Russell into the pantry and lock him in. Sarah and Zoë face the possibility of dying. They only have each other to rely on as Russell is in the pantry. But … what about the stalker?
Reviewed by Clive Hodges
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABOUT THE AUTHORMick Herron is a bestselling and award-winning novelist and short story writer, best known for his Slough House thrillers. The series has been adapted into a TV series starring Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb.
In 2008, inspired by world events, Mick began writing the Slough House series, featuring MI5 agents who have been exiled from the mainstream for various offences. The first novel, Slow Horses, was published in 2010. Some years later, it was hailed by the Daily Telegraph as one of “the twenty greatest spy novels of all time”.
The Slough House novels have been published in 20 languages; have won both the CWA Steel and Gold daggers; have been shortlisted for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year four times; and have won Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz prize. Mick is also the author of the highly acclaimed novels Reconstruction, This is What Happened and Nobody Walks.
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