Down Cemetery Road

Description

When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker, a young married woman, bored and unhappy with domestic life, becomes obsessed with finding her. Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband's wearisome business clients for dinner, Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew, as her investigation reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.

Mick Herronis a British novelist and short story writer who was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford. He is the author of six books in the Slough House series (Slow Horses,Dead Lions,Real Tigers,Spook Street,London Rules, and the novellaThe List) and four Oxford mysteries (Down Cemetery Road,The Last Voice You Hear,Why We Die, andSmoke and Whispers), as well as the standalone novelsReconstruction,Nobody WalksandThis Is What Happened. His workhas won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller,and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, andbeen nominated for the Macavity, Barry, Shamus, and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards. He currently lives in Oxford and writes full-time.

Praise for Down Cemetery Road "Good characterization, dialogue and well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible." -The Daily Telegraph "[Down Cemetery Road] shifts from domesticity with violence and private detectives-initially seeming something like Kate Atkinson's detective novels in both the quality of the writing and the lightness of tone-to something like Christopher Brookmyre at his best . . . Herron is a major writer of considerable wit and talent." -International Noir Fiction Praise for Mick Herron "Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way." -The New York Times Book Review "Stylish and engaging." -The Washington Post "A superb thriller . . . Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today."