Down Cemetery Road is a gripping thriller with a well-paced narrative and well-developed characters, set in Oxford and the British Isles. It follows Sarah Tucker's search for her missing child, uncovering secrets and facing danger.

Format: Hardback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 01 August 2024
Publisher: John Murray Press

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

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 becomes 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.

Weight: 634g
Dimension: 242 x 161 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399819220