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Zoe Boehm Thrillers (Related to this series)
- Author
- Mick Herron
- Narrator
- Zara Ramm
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Publish Date
- 20 November 2025
- Run Time
- 8 hours 1 minute
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Thriller / suspense fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 3.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
'If you haven't read Zoë Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction' Val McDermid, author of Past Lying
'This is one of these novels where you read it, not just to see what happens at the end, but to see what happens on the very next page' Booklist
When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoë kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? Why was she wearing the jacket a murderer had stolen years before? And what's brought Sarah's former sparring partner Gerard Inchon to the same broken-down hotel where she's staying? Coincidence is an excuse that soon appears pretty unconvincing. Sarah can't leave until she's found the answers to her questions, however dangerous they might turn out to be.
Critics Review
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If you haven't read Zoë Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction
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A legend in the world of crime fiction
Off Air with Jane and Fi
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This masterful thriller results in superior entertainment that makes most other novels of suspense appear dull and slow-witted by comparison
Publishers Weekly
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This is one of these novels where you read it, not just to see what happens at the end, but to see what happens on the very next page
Booklist
User Reviews
Book 3.0
Narration 5.0
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3.0 5.0
Disappointing. All right entertainment. Plot doesnt really hang together and the main character is a bit tedious. Better writing than many thrillers though, but just doesnt draw you in particularly
abno 2025-12-09
Details
- Author
- Mick Herron
- Narrator
- Zara Ramm
- Duration
- 8 hours 1 minute
- Release Date
- 20 November 2025
- ISBN
- 9781399835503
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Thriller / suspense fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 3.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
*From the creator of SLOW HORSES and 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'This is one of these novels where you read it, not just to see what happens at the end, but to see what happens on the very next page' BooklistWhen a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoë kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? Why was she wearing the jacket a murderer had stolen years before? And what's brought Sarah's former sparring partner Gerard Inchon to the same broken-down hotel where she's staying? Coincidence is an excuse that soon appears pretty unconvincing. Sarah can't leave until she's found the answers to her questions, however dangerous they might turn out to be.
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