Down Cemetery Road
Zoe Boehm Thrillers 1
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3.8 • 137 Ratings
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- £5.49
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Publisher Description
*Soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson*
'If you haven't 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 plausible' Daily Telegraph
It's 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 become obsessed with finding her.
She enlists the help of Zoë Boehm's investigation agency, but Sarah's and Zoë's search reveals more secrets than answers, taking them from Oxford's 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 Herron's debut novel, and the first book in the Zoë Boehm series, now reissued in hardback to celebrate twenty-one years since its original publication.
Customer Reviews
Amazing Debut Novel
The characters are original, the writing excellent. There is an underlying black humor combined with the paranoia of suburban conspiracy. Great introduction to Herron’s writing. I am hooked. Will be reading more of his books. Recommended.
Five Star Plus
This is a thriller, a real thriller in the best tradition of the English thriller. Like Richard Hannah the heroine stumbles into a situation that becomes more complex and threatening at each turn of a page. I hope and believe that the forces described as the Ministry of Urban Development are fictional, they are surely frightening.
This is just brilliant and I will follow Zoe Boehm’s career with enthusiasm and she is really only a minor character in this enthralling and audacious tale.
Hurrah for Herron