-
Slough House
- Slough House, Book 7
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Series: Slough House, Book 7
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy for $16.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
Joe Country
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 483
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 438
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 433
In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced spies of MI5, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process. Meanwhile, in Regent's Park, Diana Taverner's tenure as First Desk is running into difficulties. If she's going to make the Service fit for purpose, she might have to make deals with a familiar old devil....
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Really outstanding series. Perfectly read.
- By Drew on 06-30-19
By: Mick Herron
-
Reconstruction
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 50
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 39
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 39
When a young man breaks into South Oxford Nursery School with a gun and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy is fearful. But Jaime Segura isn’t there on a homicidal mission. Bad Sam Chapman - head of the intelligence service’s internal security force, the Dogs - tries to find out what Jaime is after. But the only person Jaime will talk to is Ben Whistler, an MI6 colleague of Jaime’s lover, Miro - who has gone missing with a quarter of a billion pounds....
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Wow
- By Allan on 02-27-21
By: Mick Herron
-
Firewater Blues
- The Dublin Trilogy, Book 6
- By: Caimh McDonnell
- Narrated by: Morgan C Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 82
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 75
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 75
It’s the year 2000, and while Bunny McGarry is theoretically on sabbatical from the police, he just can’t help sticking his nose in where it doesn’t belong. Rosie Flint is an old acquaintance of Bunny’s whose boyfriend mysteriously disappears off the face of the Earth. What starts out as a simple missing person’s case soon gets a whole lot more complicated when it emerges that the boyfriend is not who he claimed to be, and there are some rather sinister people showing an unhealthy interest in Rosie.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Another Belter
- By lisasarcy on 03-15-22
By: Caimh McDonnell
-
Down Cemetery Road
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker 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.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Not as good as Slough House
- By wisconsinclark on 08-09-20
By: Mick Herron
-
Kings Lake Investigation Series #3, Roxanne
- By: Peter Grainger
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,066
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 946
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 940
"And see if there's any news about the missing girl." Life, as Smith used to say, is just one thing after another - as one investigation ends, a new one begins. But for reasons unknown to the rest of her team, DCI Cara Freeman will be haunted by the next case for the Kings Lake Central murder squad. They find themselves delving into the seamy side of life in the town, and one of their number will have departed before this new investigation is over. Perhaps Detective Sergeant Chris Waters should have seen it coming, but he has a lot more than work on his mind these days.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
He does it again
- By Wilmapug on 03-05-21
By: Peter Grainger
-
The Truth
- A DC Smith Investigation, Book 9
- By: Peter Grainger
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 775
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 694
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 692
Charlie Hills, former desk sergeant at Kings Lake Central, is in trouble. He hasn't told Smith, his old friend and sparring partner, but someone has, and now the two former policemen are about to embark on a difficult and potentially dangerous search for the truth. For one of them, it could be life-changing.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
I have missed DCI Smith
- By MB on 10-27-21
By: Peter Grainger
-
Joe Country
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 483
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 438
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 433
In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced spies of MI5, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process. Meanwhile, in Regent's Park, Diana Taverner's tenure as First Desk is running into difficulties. If she's going to make the Service fit for purpose, she might have to make deals with a familiar old devil....
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Really outstanding series. Perfectly read.
- By Drew on 06-30-19
By: Mick Herron
-
Reconstruction
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 50
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars 39
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 39
When a young man breaks into South Oxford Nursery School with a gun and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy is fearful. But Jaime Segura isn’t there on a homicidal mission. Bad Sam Chapman - head of the intelligence service’s internal security force, the Dogs - tries to find out what Jaime is after. But the only person Jaime will talk to is Ben Whistler, an MI6 colleague of Jaime’s lover, Miro - who has gone missing with a quarter of a billion pounds....
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Wow
- By Allan on 02-27-21
By: Mick Herron
-
Firewater Blues
- The Dublin Trilogy, Book 6
- By: Caimh McDonnell
- Narrated by: Morgan C Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 82
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 75
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 75
It’s the year 2000, and while Bunny McGarry is theoretically on sabbatical from the police, he just can’t help sticking his nose in where it doesn’t belong. Rosie Flint is an old acquaintance of Bunny’s whose boyfriend mysteriously disappears off the face of the Earth. What starts out as a simple missing person’s case soon gets a whole lot more complicated when it emerges that the boyfriend is not who he claimed to be, and there are some rather sinister people showing an unhealthy interest in Rosie.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Another Belter
- By lisasarcy on 03-15-22
By: Caimh McDonnell
-
Down Cemetery Road
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker 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.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Not as good as Slough House
- By wisconsinclark on 08-09-20
By: Mick Herron
-
Kings Lake Investigation Series #3, Roxanne
- By: Peter Grainger
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,066
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 946
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 940
"And see if there's any news about the missing girl." Life, as Smith used to say, is just one thing after another - as one investigation ends, a new one begins. But for reasons unknown to the rest of her team, DCI Cara Freeman will be haunted by the next case for the Kings Lake Central murder squad. They find themselves delving into the seamy side of life in the town, and one of their number will have departed before this new investigation is over. Perhaps Detective Sergeant Chris Waters should have seen it coming, but he has a lot more than work on his mind these days.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
He does it again
- By Wilmapug on 03-05-21
By: Peter Grainger
-
The Truth
- A DC Smith Investigation, Book 9
- By: Peter Grainger
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 775
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 694
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 692
Charlie Hills, former desk sergeant at Kings Lake Central, is in trouble. He hasn't told Smith, his old friend and sparring partner, but someone has, and now the two former policemen are about to embark on a difficult and potentially dangerous search for the truth. For one of them, it could be life-changing.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
I have missed DCI Smith
- By MB on 10-27-21
By: Peter Grainger
-
The Marylebone Drop
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 115
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 104
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 104
A drop, in spook parlance, is the passing on of secret information. It's also what happens just before you hit the ground. Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone cafe, he knows he's witnessed more than an innocent encounter. But in relaying his suspicions to John Bachelor, who babysits retired spies like Solly for MI5, he sets in motion a train of events that will alter lives.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Perfect companion to Slough House series
- By Keenan on 08-03-20
By: Mick Herron
-
Why We Die
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 31
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
When Zoë Boehm agrees to track down the gang who knocked over Sweeney’s jewellery shop, she certainly doesn’t expect to wind up in a coffin. But she’s about to become entangled with a strange collection of characters, starting with suicidal Tim Whitby, who’s dedicating what’s left of his life to protecting Katrina Blake from her late husband’s brothers, Arkle and Trent. Unfortunately for Zoë, Arkle has a crossbow, Tim has nothing left to lose and even Katrina has her secrets.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Narrator voice overwhelms
- By Patti Boese on 01-05-22
By: Mick Herron
-
The Last Straw
- DCI Warren Jone, Book 1
- By: Paul Gitsham
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 440
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 393
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 392
When Professor Alan Tunbridge is discovered in his office with his throat slashed, the suspects start queuing up. The brilliant but unpleasant microbiologist had a genius for making enemies. For Warren Jones, newly appointed Detective Chief Inspector to the Middlesbury force, a high-profile murder is the ideal opportunity. He’s determined to run a thorough and professional investigation but political pressure to resolve the case quickly and tensions in the office and at home make life anything but easy.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Really like this series
- By wisconsinclark on 01-05-19
By: Paul Gitsham
-
On Eden Street
- Kings Lake Investigation Series, Book 2
- By: Peter Grainger
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,346
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,147
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,140
The new Kings Lake Central murder squad is about to spend its first morning on team-building exercises and reviewing cold cases when the call comes in that the body of one of the city's rough sleepers has been found in a shop doorway. It happens, someone says, he isn't the first to die on the streets and he won't be the last, but the story the new team begins to uncover is far from routine.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
And so the wait begins...
- By S. Horn on 04-29-20
By: Peter Grainger
-
A Private Investigation: A DC Smith Investigation
- DC Smith Investigation Series, Book 8
- By: Peter Grainger
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,221
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,124
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,119
When 14-year-old Zoe Johnson doesn't come home on a Monday night in early December, the alarm bells in Kings Lake Central police station do not ring straight away - after all, she's from the Dockmills, one of the toughest estates in the town. But for Detective Sergeant DC Smith, due to retire in just three weeks' time, there are some strange echoes of the case that has haunted him for the past 13 years. Maybe it's simply his over-developed sense of irony, or maybe, in his final days as a police officer, Smith must look once more into the eyes of a serial killer.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Sad ending to a wonderful series?
- By Wayne on 11-16-18
By: Peter Grainger
-
The List
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 121
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 97
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 96
Dieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. Death has revealed that the deceased had been keeping a secret second bank account - and there's only ever one reason a spy has a secret second bank account. The question of whether he was a double agent must be resolved, and its answer may undo an entire career's worth of spy secrets.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Really just one part of a full book
- By Harmon on 02-08-21
By: Mick Herron
Publisher's Summary
Soon to be a TV series starring Oscar award-winning actor Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb.
The seventh book in the Sunday Times best-selling, award-winning Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies and their notorious leader, Jackson Lamb.
'Kill us? They've never needed to kill us,' said Lamb. 'I mean, look at us. What would be the point?'
A year after a calamitous blunder by the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from novichok poisoning, Diana Taverner is on the warpath. What seems a gutless response from the government has pushed the Service's first desk into mounting her own counter-offensive - but she's had to make a deal with the devil first. And given that the devil in question is arch-manipulator Peter Judd, she could be about to lose control of everything she's fought for.
Meanwhile, still reeling from recent losses, the slow horses are worried they've been pushed further into the cold. Slough House has been wiped from Service records, and fatal accidents keep happening. No wonder Jackson Lamb's crew are feeling paranoid. But have they actually been targeted?
With a new populist movement taking a grip on London's streets, and the old order ensuring that everything's for sale to the highest bidder, the world's an uncomfortable place for those deemed surplus to requirements. The wise move would be to find a safe place and wait for the troubles to pass.
But the slow horses aren't famed for making wise decisions.
Critic Reviews
"The new king of the spy thriller." (Mail on Sunday)
"Razor-sharp prose, fully formed characters and an underlying pathos make this series the most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War." (The Times)
"As a master of wit, satire, insight...Herron is difficult to overpraise." (Daily Telegraph)
More from the same
Author
What listeners say about Slough House
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Ryan Read
- 02-07-21
Wonderful
Everything that you expect from Slough House novel and more. Like a Porsche, which over time has enhanced almost every aspect of the sorts car without deviating from the basic design, this series of books have improved over time and leave you longing for more.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- peter
- 04-20-22
Engrossing and completely entertaining
This series feels in many ways like the inheritance from John Le Carre because it has many similarities of style, plotting, setting, cynicism, pacing and realism. But MH definitely does it all very, very well and with such humour that he is creating what seems a wholly original genre. Hard to stop listening.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Chad Morrison
- 07-20-21
Another awesome addition.
Very enjoyable listen, Mick Herron never lets me down. I have never been a person to read or in this case listen to a whole series one after the other, but in this case I have not been able to put any of them down. I will quietly await another adventure with the Slow Horses. Sean Barrett you are a true legend, and make Jackson Lamb and the other characters three dimensional. If you read this review, join the team and enjoy the journey.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 02-19-21
Do your editing people.
They have not cut out Sean's rereads. other than that, great addition to the series
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Trotpot
- 02-20-21
Edit errors in this - duplication and reworking of sentences
Story and narrator as good as ever - just annoying that edit not done correctly with several sentences repeated, including at one stage narrator saying “ that’s not quite right” then rereading sentence
Given book requires concentration to enjoy this is distracting and disappointing by audible not to have better quality control on new releases
11 people found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Liz
- 02-05-21
Excellent edition to the series
More of the same - and delightful for it. No disappointment in this edition to the series. Excellent narration as always and many familiar faces.
If you're new to the series, this is not a book that will make sense if you've not read at least some of the others. But they're so good - start at the beginning.
only small quibble is that the editing isn't great. There are at leat four or five repeat lines as sean barrat redoes them. They should have been caught and edited out. Rather sloppy that they haven't been. I read it the day it came out - so hopefully when you listen to it, these small missteps will have been fixed.
8 people found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Alex
- 02-07-21
Gloriously incorrect!
Slough House is a gripping addition to the series which exercises the full range of emotions and provides the cliffhanger ending which guarantees that I will listen to the next installment.
To my mind Sean Barrett is Jackson Lamb as Alec Guinness is George Smiley.
Read the books including the novellas, in sequence, for maximum impact.
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Derek Platten
- 02-06-21
Unputdownable!
Having looked forward to its release for months, there is always a worry that Mr Herron will be unable to keep up the excellence of the series.
Happily the worry was unjustified and, consumed in just 2 inexorably hilarious and enjoyable sittings, Slough House matches and exceeds every expectation.
Every Jackson Lamb utterance invokes the uncontrollable, tell-tale titter which, in pre-Covid times; when being enjoyed, for example, on public transport; produces strange looks from fellow travellers.
This latest helping is pure genius.
I'm off to re-listen to it all again.
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Nick Moore
- 02-09-21
Seemed to end quite abruptly
I've enjoyed all the Jackson Lamb series and this is not a disappointment but it did seem to end a bit suddenly, perhaps the rest of the story to come in the next book? Sean Barrett, as ever, is superb at bringing Mick Herron's characters to life.
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Sararara
- 02-06-21
Worth the wait
It seems like ages since the last instalment so it was an unadulterated pleasure to settle into the world of Jackson Lamb once more.
I’m really not sure how the tv series will work without the brilliant Sean Barrett.
It takes a while to untangle the various plot threads but, once again, it’s a carefully worked tale of grievances, scheming and fallout.
It’s almost Le Carré for quite some time but then Lamb and The Rodster remind you where you are.
It’s a typically dark tale but some of the lines and descriptions are laugh-out-loud funny, and I felt like cheering on at least one occasion.
With cagey references to recent events, this instalment feels quite ‘real’ however, I’m perplexed by the gender of the first victim.
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- d j.
- 02-05-21
Gripping
Having waited months for the latest instalment I was not disappointed to hear the adventures of Jackson Lamb and his Slow Horses.
Could not stop listening and have finished it in a day.
Very much looking forward to the screen version starring Gary Oldman and I could easily visualise how this will pan out.
Fantastic listen.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Sarah Gilani
- 05-07-22
Very well read
Another excellent story in the slough house series.
Hugely wonderful reading by sean barrett.
I enjoyed this and all the previous stories in the series - all read by sean barrett.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- paul sparks
- 05-04-22
Lady Di laid low
For a woman who risen to the pinnacle in the secret service Lady Di Taverner appears to be less street wise than Roddy Ho! In this darkly comic yet dangerous tale she is taken to the cleaners and finds herself in a worse state of repair than our beloved Jackson
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Gabrielle Harvey-Jones
- 04-24-22
Masterly, as ever!
Wonderfully plotted, with strangely engaging characters - even Jackson Lamb! These books are always superbly read by Sean Barrett, who one, somehow, cannot envision them without!
Can’t wait for the next one!
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- Darren
- 02-27-21
Not as good as earlier books
I really enjoyed all of the earlier books in this series, I found this book not as enjoyable .
The ending was disappointing. Hopefully the next book will be better
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- Denis Ives
- 02-23-21
Absorbing but....
A good story but ending is flat with some unresolved issues. Clearly there is another one to come. This is more obvious than with previous stories. Thats always disappointing. Be warned... the ending seems inadequate.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Andrew
- 05-09-22
oh my God, you killed ....
Not going to lie was not happy with the body count.
a double helping of dead horses and poisoned stream.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Craig
- 12-10-21
Great detail, less satisfying overall story
Mick Herron’s writing, characters and dialogue are awesome. But I’m still waiting for a story premise and plot that hits it out of the park. The stakes as usual seem rather small-scale, the actors seem always flawed and clumsy in their craft, and the ending is incomplete.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Michael
- 05-04-21
brilliant as always
Jackson Lamb has to be my favourite character ever. Brilliantly British- sardonic, witty, classless, but does not give a _____ and is remarkable at what he does
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- soo jay
- 03-26-21
Top-notch stuff from Mick Herron.
I loved this latest in the Slough House series, though I wouldn't recommend it to newcomers to Mick Herron. You will need a lot of pre-knowledge of the characters and of "spook street" to understand this book. Whilst the dialogue positively crackles with intelligence and insight, I felt the story lacked a core character for the reader to latch on to, so at the end I felt a little unsatisfied. None the less, a slightly disappointing Mick Herron is still streets ahead of most of the current offerings in this genre.
The narrator has the perfect voice for these stories, except for his rendering of the gay American dwarf! What on earth was he thinking? I could also do with a little less phlegm in Jackson Lamb's throat.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- margaret allen
- 03-02-21
Slough House
The whole series has been excellent all round and this did not disappoint. Well written and great narration. More please...
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 02-28-21
Not enough Jackson
There is not enough Slough House character action. You don’t get a cohesive story / plot lines
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- carolyn
- 02-26-21
staggeringly good
Beautifully elegant prose, devilishly good plot and perfectly narrated. can't wait for the next book.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Linda Marea
- 02-24-21
Worth the wait in every way
I have absolutely loved the Slough House series and couldn’t wait for this book. The writing is perfect and the narration exquisite. I adore the writing of Mick Heron and the narration of Sean Barrett so much that I’m going to start the series from book 1 all over again.
