04-01-2021, 07:53 AM
Down Cemetery Road by Mick Herron
It's Herron's first novel. It will be three or four more books before he gets to Slough House. It's not very good. His descriptions and characterizations are good but the plot just goes on forever. It's not as tight as his later books. But you can see him planting the seeds of his future novels. There is the out of control Spy service and the hapless people caught up in it.
A house explodes in Oxford and two bodies are dragged out of it. The daughter was also in the house but she miraculously survives and then disappears from the hospital. A neighbor, Sarah, a bored housewife wants to find out what happened to the daughter. Complications ensue as Sarah hires a detective to find the girl but other forces don't want the girl to be found.
If you want to read the Slough Series, you will miss nothing by skipping this book.
It's Herron's first novel. It will be three or four more books before he gets to Slough House. It's not very good. His descriptions and characterizations are good but the plot just goes on forever. It's not as tight as his later books. But you can see him planting the seeds of his future novels. There is the out of control Spy service and the hapless people caught up in it.
A house explodes in Oxford and two bodies are dragged out of it. The daughter was also in the house but she miraculously survives and then disappears from the hospital. A neighbor, Sarah, a bored housewife wants to find out what happened to the daughter. Complications ensue as Sarah hires a detective to find the girl but other forces don't want the girl to be found.
If you want to read the Slough Series, you will miss nothing by skipping this book.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm