Zoë Boehm · Book 3
Why We Die
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 318
- ISBN-13
- 9780786718276
- Type
- novel
About this book
After a two-year gap, Why We Die (2006) arrived as the third Zoë Boehm novel, the longest of the four at 318 pages, with Zoë working a case that circles back to her own unresolved grief over her dead husband. It sits closer to traditional private-eye noir than the bureaucratic satire Herron would later become known for.
Its place in Zoë Boehm
Why We Die is book 3 in the Zoë Boehm series. It follows The Last Voice You Hear. It is followed by Smoke and Whispers. 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 9780786718276
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786720224
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781473647022