Zoë Boehm · Book 4
Smoke and Whispers
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 279
- ISBN-13
- 9781849012782
- Type
- novel
About this book
Herron closed the Zoë Boehm quartet with Smoke and Whispers in 2009, its shortest entry at 279 pages, as Zoë works cases that keep circling the dangerous edges of the Oxford world she operates in. It's the last appearance of the private-eye voice Herron would trade for Slough House's bureaucratic satire.
Its place in Zoë Boehm
Smoke and Whispers is book 4 in the Zoë Boehm series. It follows Why We Die. 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 9781849012782
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781569476444