Smoke and Whispers, Mick Herron
Smoke and Whispers, Mick Herron
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Smoke and Whispers

Author: Mick Herron

Narrator: Julia Franklin

Unabridged: 9 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2020

Synopsis

When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoë kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? Coincidence is an excuse that soon appears pretty unconvincing. Sarah can’t leave until she’s found the answers to her questions, however dangerous they might turn out to be.

About Mick Herron

Mick Herron, British novelist and short story writer, is the author of the Slough House espionage series, four Oxford mysteries, and three standalone novels. His work has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, the Theakston’s Novel of the Year Award, the Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and the USC Libraries Scripter Award. His works have been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, and Shamus Awards. He was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on August 23, 2009

In this tight mystery Sarah Tucker comes to Newcastle to identify the remains of a friend Zoe, who allegedly has been fished out of a local river dead. The woman is wearing Zoe's clothes and kind of looks like Zoe but she is also wearing a jacket that was stolen by a man named Alan Talmadge, who Zoe......more

Goodreads review by Michael on November 27, 2017

'Smoke and Whispers' is another of Mick Herron's mysteries starring Sarah Tucker and the intrepid PI Zoe Boehm. I was at a bit of a disadvantage in getting into it as I hadn't read a previous novel that introduced the 'bad guy', but there was enough in the narrative that I could make sense of the st......more

Goodreads review by Jorn on March 11, 2019

A little humor, a little poetry, one okay mystery, one okay detective. The return of the world's most boring serial killer, pursued by a tedious detective. Not much to enjoy.......more

Goodreads review by Alex on August 05, 2017

Sarah Tucker travels from Oxford to Newcastle to identify the body of a woman fished out of the River Tyne near the Millennium Bridge. Private detective Zoë Boehm is missing or has gone to ground, not answering emails or her phone. The two are not close friends but Zoë once saved Sarah’s life, and a......more

Goodreads review by Maddy on May 31, 2010

PROTAGONIST: Sarah Tucker, amateur SETTING: Newcastle RATING: 3.75 Zoe Boehm was one of those women who have an air of intrigue about them, who live a more free-spirited life than the norm and whose lives have an underlying sense of adventure. Shocked upon being notified that her friend's body has been......more

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