From the creator of SLOW HORSES and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson ''If you haven''t read Zoe Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction'' Val McDermid, author of Past Lying ''Unexpected and satisfying . . . The engaging heroine never loses her cool, from the melancholy opening to the whirlwind finale, a marvellously extended set-piece'' Kirkus Zoe Boehm has harbored a distinct aversion to death ever since she shot the man intent on killing her. So when Caroline Daniels takes a deadly fall in front of a train and her lover fails to turn up at the funeral, Zoe wants nothing to do with the case. But Caroline''s boss is persistent, and as Zoe attempts to unlock the secrets of a woman she''s never met while in search of a man who could be anywhere, she starts to wonder if he''s found her first. And if he has, will that make her the next victim, or prove to be her salvation from a paralysing fear?

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Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have been published in over twenty-five languages and are the basis of the award-winning TV series Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. Among his other novels are the Zoë Boehm series, also now adapted for TV starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, and the standalone novels The Secret Hours and Nobody Walks. Mick's awards include the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold, Steel and Diamond Daggers. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.

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Oxford private investigator Zoë Boehm struggles with the after-effects of her violent past as she hunts for a killer - or has she become the hunted?