About this book
Herron's most recent standalone, The Secret Hours (2023, 365 pages), is a direct prequel to the entire Slough House universe: a government inquiry into historic Service wrongdoing uncovers a Cold War-era Berlin operation involving a young, not-yet-notorious Jackson Lamb. It stands alone as a novel but is essential reading for series fans.
Key facts about The Secret Hours
The Secret Hours is a book by Mick Herron. Readers have had it since 2023. It runs to 365 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Secret Hours. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781399800532 to find the main one.
Mick Herron has 21 books in our catalogue. 17 of them belong to a series, while 4 stand alone. All 21 are out now. Other books by Mick Herron on file include Bad Actors (2022), Slough House (2021), The Catch (2020) and Joe Country (2019).
Before this one, Standing by the Wall came out in 2022. After it came Clown Town in 2025. Since Mick Herron's first published book on file came out in 2003, this one arrived 20 years later.
Mick Herron has 2 series on file, such as Zoë Boehm and Slough House. Those series sit on our mystery and spy thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Clown Town is the latest published Mick Herron book on file, from 2025.
About Mick Herron
Mick Herron is a British author best known for the Slough House series (also published as the Jackson Lamb novels or Slow Horses), a critically acclaimed spy fiction series following a squad of disgraced MI5 officers exiled to a dead-end administrative posting under the deliberately repugnant, foul-mouthed Jackson Lamb. See every Mick Herron book in order.
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781399800532
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781641295857
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781641296007