Mick Herron

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2004
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Slough House

1 - Slow Horses (Jun-2010)
1.5 - The List (Feb-2015)
2 - Dead Lions (May-2013)
3 - Real Tigers (Jan-2016)
4 - Spook Street (Feb-2017)
4.5 - The Drop (Jan-2018)
5 - London Rules (Jun-2018)
6 - Joe Country (Jun-2019)
6.5 - The Catch (Feb-2020)
7 - Slough House (Feb-2021)
8 - Bad Actors (May-2022)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • The Last Voice You Hear

    Oxford private investigator Zoë Boehm struggles with the aftereffects of her violent past as she hunts for a killer -- or has she become the hunted?

    Zoë Boehm has harbored a distinct aversion to death ever since she shot the man intent on k...

  • Why We Die

    When Tim Whitby checks into a hotel, he's not intending to check out again -- but then he meets Katrina Blake, a woman in need of rescue. When Arkle, Baxter and Trent inherit the family business, they're not planning on making a go of it -- there are...

  • Down Cemetery Road

    CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron's debut novel introduces Sarah Tucker, whose search for a missing child unravels a murderous conspiracy.

    When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker -- ...

  • Reconstruction

    Jaime is trying to find his lover, Miro, who is missing together with a huge sum of money intended for reconstruction work in Iraq. Those outside the nursery school where he has taken hostages would like Jaime silenced....

  • Smoke and Whispers

    Oxford private detective Zoë Boehm turns up dead in Newcastle, launching her friend Sarah Tucker into an investigation with several leads -- but no one she can trust. When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle fo...

  • Slow Horses

    Slough House - 1

    Let us be clear about this much at least: Slough House is not in Slough, nor is it a house... Slough House is Jackson Lamb's kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a secret file on a train, blown a ...

  • All the Livelong Day & Other Stories

    Five stories of crime and suspense. In All The Livelong Day, a couple on a walking holiday in Derbyshire find their relationship tested to breaking point when they stumble into a Hitchcockian nightmare: foul weather, a remote farmhouse, and a mons...

  • Dead Lions

    Slough House - 2

    London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and...

  • The List

    Slough House - 1.5

    Dieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. Death has revealed that the deceased had been keeping a secret second bank account and there's only ever one reason a spy has a secret second bank accoun...



  • Nobody Walks

    Set in the same fictional London as his CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Slough House spy series, Mick Herron now introduces Tom Bettany, a man with a violent past and only one thing to live for: Avenging his son’s death. Tom Bettany is working at...

  • Real Tigers

    Slough House - 3

    When one of their own is kidnapped, the washed-up MI5 operatives of Slough House -- the Slow Horses, as they're known -- outwit rogue agents at the very highest levels of British Intelligence, and even to Downing Street itself. London: Slough Hous...

  • Spook Street

    Slough House - 4

    What happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for those who know too many secrets but don’t remember they’re secret? Or does someone take care of the senile spy for good? These are the paranoid concern...

  • The Drop

    Slough House - 4.5

    A drop, in spook parlance, is the passing on of secret information. It’s also what happens just before you hit the ground. Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from o...

  • This Is What Happened

    From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense about one woman’s attempt to be better than ordinary Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a...

  • London Rules

    Slough House - 5

    Ian Fleming. John le Carré. Len Deighton. Mick Herron. The brilliant plotting of Herron’s twice CWA Dagger Award-winning Slough House series of spy novels is matched only by his storytelling gift and an ear for viciously funny political satire. ...

  • Joe Country

    Slough House - 6

    If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced MI5 spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the...

  • Postmortem 2019

  • The Drop & The List

    Two Slough House Novellas**THE DROP**'It is time Mick Herron was recognised in his own right as the best thriller writer in Britain today' Sunday ExpressOld spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envel...

  • The Catch

    Slough House - 6.5

    British spy master Mick Herron returns with an explosive novella set in the same world as his multiple CWA Dagger-winning Slough House series John Bachelor is the saddest kind of spy: not a joe in the field, not even a desk jockey, but a milkman -...



  • Slough House

    Slough House - 7

    Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin. The seventh entry to the Slough House series is as thrilling and bleeding-edge relevant as ever.

    A year after a calamitous blunder by the Russi...

  • Dolphin Junction: Stories

    CWA Gold and Steel Dagger-winner Mick Herron's short fiction, collected for the first time.Mick Herron, author of the Slough House novels, is on his way to becoming one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally important crime fiction writers o...

  • Bad Actors

    Slough House - 8

    Mick Herron, “the le Carré of the future” (BBC), expands his world of bad spies with an even shadier cast of characters: the politicians, lobbyists, and misinformation agents pulling the levers of government policy. “Confirms Mick Herron ...

  • Standing by the Wall

    At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-published Christmas interlude Standing by the Wall.Espionage. Blackmail. Revenge. Cunning. Slapstick. State secrets dating back to the fall of the Berlin Wall....

  • The Secret Hours

    A gripping spy thriller from the bestselling author of Slow Horses, about a disastrous MI5 mission in Cold War Berlin -- an absolute must-read for Slough House fans. Set in the MI5 world of Slow Horses, now an Apple Original series from Apple T...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mick Herron has published 24 books.

Mick Herron does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Secret Hours, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Mick Herron, The Last Voice You Hear, was published in August 2004.

Yes. Mick Herron has 1 series.
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