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  • OT Mick Herron Was: Smoking.

    From Titus G@21:1/5 to Titus G on Fri Jun 27 16:49:01 2025
    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?

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  • From Titus G@21:1/5 to William Hyde on Sat Jun 28 18:04:42 2025
    On 28/06/25 09:12, William Hyde wrote:
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    I started the Oxford series but did not continue.

    Otherwise I've read nothing, but am looking forward to "Nobody Walks".

    It was published in 2015 so before the third Slough House novel.
    The plot and twists are great. Violent and full of suspense.
    I have learnt not to trust him with his frequent dishonest implications creating suspense, switching to another sub plot or people before
    revealing what would have spoilt the suspense if known beforehand. I
    still love it when he does it but it may have been more obvious in
    Nobody Walks or else perhaps I was looking for it?. An example would be
    the beginning of the first Slough House book, Slow Horses, where River's
    unjust demotion has a double whammy with the revelation that it was not
    only a training exercise, but that there was betrayal from a colleague.

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