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Subject: OT Mick Herron Was: Smoking.
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:49:01 +1200
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On 20/06/25 14:38, Titus G wrote:
> On 20/06/25 09:27, William Hyde wrote:
>> Titus G wrote:
>>> I am currently reading Mick Herron's Slough House series 

>> How I envy you!

> I read the first XXXX [three not four] over a year ago and wasn't aware until recently
> that he had written so many so I have been having a real treat!

I have only the eighth book Bad Actors and the novella Standing By The
Wall left to read but I see a new one is due in September.
I had read the first three of what Fantastic Fiction lists as the Oxford
series but my rankings were four stars, three stars and two stars so was
not in a hurry to read the fourth nor fifth though probably will just in
case.
Of the standalone novels, I had ony read This Is What Happened.
Suspense. Three stars.
This week I read the four star "Nobody Walks" where first desk is still
Tearney and Dianna Taverner second desk. No mention of Slough House
though one of Taverner's unfortunate pawns is JK Coe (a slow horse in
later books). If I had known earlier, I would have read it in sequence
with Slough House.
Secret Hours is also about spies and MI5 so I am looking forward to
reading that as well.
Have you read others than the Slough House series?