The Last Voice You Hear

Description

Oxford private investigator Zoe Boehm has an 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 the woman while in search of a man who could be anywhere, she starts to wonder if he s found her first...

Mick Herronis a British novelist and short story writer who was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford. He is the author of six books in the Slough House series (Slow Horses,Dead Lions,Real Tigers,Spook Street,London Rules, and the novellaThe List) and four Oxford mysteries (Down Cemetery Road,The Last Voice You Hear,Why We Die, andSmoke and Whispers), as well as the standalone novelsReconstruction,Nobody WalksandThis Is What Happened. His workhas won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller,and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, andbeen nominated for the Macavity, Barry, Shamus, and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards. He currently lives in Oxford and writes full-time.

Praise for The Last Voice You Hear "With its vivid descriptions . . . and unexpected clues . . . The Last Voice You Hear is stylish and engaging." -Washington Post "Unexpected and satisfying . . . The engaging heroine never loses her cool, from the melancholy opening to the whirlwind finale, a marvelously extended set-piece." -Kirkus Reviews "[A] tight, literary, cliche-free novel." -Publishers Weekly "Thoroughly worth reading." -Booklist Praise for Mick Herron "Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way." -The New York Times Book Review "Good characterization, dialogue and well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible." -Daily Telegraph