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Smoke and Whispers
Zoë Boehm Thriller 4
Series: Zoe Boehm Thrillers
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When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look and to find some answers.
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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
'This is one of these novels where you read it, not just to see what happens at the end, but to see what happens on the very next page' – Booklist
When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did the woman kill herself? 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.
Series: Zoe Boehm Thrillers
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The Last Voice You Hear
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Smoke and Whispers
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Why We Die
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 Herron is a stylish writer with a mordant sensibility and a deadly wit. He's also a tricky plotter - New...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
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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 'Herron is a stylish writer with a mordant sensibility and a deadly wit. He's also a tricky plotter' - New...PaperbackSold Out -
The Last Voice You Hear
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...PaperbackSold Out -
Smoke and Whispers
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 'This is one of these novels where you read it, not just to see what happens at the end, but...PaperbackSold Out
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Smoke and Whispers by Mick Herron is praised as a masterful thriller that offers superior entertainment, setting it apart from many other suspense novels. Readers find themselves engaged not only in the unfolding of the plot but also intrigued by every new development on each page.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781473647060
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 August 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 233g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have been published in over twenty-five languages and are the basis of the award-winning TV series Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. Among his other novels are the Zoe Boehm series, also now adapted for TV starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, and the standalone novels The Secret Hours and Nobody Walks. Mick's awards include the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold, Steel and Diamond Daggers. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.
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