Zoë Boehm · Book 1
Down Cemetery Road
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 300
- ISBN-13
- 9781841196206
- Type
- novel
About this book
Mick Herron's 2003 debut actually centers on Sarah Tucker, a bored, unhappily married Oxford housewife who hires private investigator Zoë Boehm to look into a house explosion -- only to be pulled into a conspiracy involving a missing child and government secrets. At 300 pages, it opens a quartet conventionally catalogued under Zoë's name despite Sarah carrying much of the narration, and the odd, effective pairing between the two women's instincts runs through the rest of the series.
Its place in Zoë Boehm
Down Cemetery Road is book 1 in the Zoë Boehm series. It is followed by The Last Voice You Hear. See the full Zoë Boehm reading order.
Long before Jackson Lamb and the slow horses, Mick Herron's debut novel introduced Zoë Boehm, an Oxford private investigator with a violent past, a dead husband whose death she can't stop circling, and a near-phobic relationship with mortality that colours every case she takes. Down Cemetery Road (2003) actually centers on Sarah Tucker, a bored, unhappily married Oxford housewife who hires Zoë to look into a house explosion and gets pulled into a conspiracy involving a missing child and government secrets …
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781841196206
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786720682
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781616955830