Down Cemetery Road

*From the creator of SLOW HORSES and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson*

If you havent read Zoë Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction Val McDermid, author of Past Lying

Good characterisation, dialogue and a well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausibleDaily Telegraph

Its an evening like any other when an explosion rips through the leafy Oxford suburb Sarah Tucker calls home.

In the aftermath, a house now stands devastated, with two adults dead and a young girl missing.

With the police more interested in keeping the neighbours from rubbernecking than in searching for the missing child, Sarah becomes obsessed with finding her.

She enlists the help of Zoë Boehms investigation agency, but Sarahs and Zoës search reveals more secrets than answers, taking them from Oxfords cobbled streets to the rugged outer reaches of the British Isles. As Zoë and Sarah draw closer to the truth, they are caught in a web of conspiracy and come up against government forces, cold-blooded mercenaries and vengeful loners.

Down Cemetery Road is Mick Herrons debut novel and the first book in the Zoë Boehm series.