The first Zoe Boehm thriller from the masterful pen of espionage supremo Mick Herron, Down Cemetery Road sets a young married woman bored with domestic life on a dangerous mission to track down a missing girl.
When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker - a young married woman, bored and unhappy with domestic life - becomes obsessed with finding her.
Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband's wearisome business clients for dinner, Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew, as her investigation reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.
What begins in a peaceful neighbourhood reaches its climax on a remote, unwelcoming Scottish island as the search puts Sarah in league with a man who finds himself being hunted down by murderous official forces.
Publisher: John Murray Press
ISBN: 9781399819220
Number of pages: 416
Dimensions: 238 x 160 x 42 mm
Weight: 637 g
Language: English
If you haven't read Zoë Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction - Val McDermid, author of PAST LYING
A not-to-be-missed treat . . . Herron's incisive portraits are as pitch perfect as ever, and even if you've read this series before, it's worth reminding yourself of its excellence - Alison Flood, Guardian
Good characterisation, dialogue and a well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible - Daily Telegraph
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My author worship of Mick Herron continues to hold firm with this, my first read of his apart from my most beloved Slough House series. A standalone book, this is not, but the start of the Zoe Boehm series (hooray!).... More
An earlier product of the Slough House author, this is much slower and less enthralling than than the later works, which set a very high benchmark. Had this been my first dip into Mike Herron's work, I would have... More
Down Cemetery Road is the first book in the Oxford Investigations series by British author, Mick Herron. Her career stalled, Sarah Tucker is an unenthusiastic housewife when, during a painful dinner party with someone... More
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