Herron's second installment in the Zoe Boehm series is a thoughtful, slow-paced story of police officers and the justice system gone bad. Zoe is a forty-something private detective who's hired to find the elusive boyfriend who made Caroline Daniels' final weeks happy. Ms. Daniels fell in front of an oncoming Tube train--or was she pushed? Two other mysteries are carefully braided into this first storyline; and together,...
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I gather that in the US this is Mick Herron's first novel. That's fine, because the book stands proudly by itself as a psychological, noirish crime novel that deals in the issues of love, possession and ageing. Zoe Boehm his detective is a street-smart 40-something private eye based in Oxford, England. The plot kept me guessing and I guessed wrong most of the time. It is a slow-burner but the atmosphere more than compensates...
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