*From the creator of SLOW HORSES and now a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth
Wilson* 'If you haven't read Zoë Boehm yet welcome to your next fiction addiction' Val
McDermid author of Past Lying 'Good characterisation dialogue and a well-paced narrative
make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible' Daily Telegraph It's an evening like
any other when an explosion rips through the leafy Oxford suburb Sarah Tucker calls home. In
the aftermath a house now stands devastated with two adults dead and a young girl missing.
With the police more interested in keeping the neighbours from rubbernecking than in searching
for the missing child Sarah becomes obsessed with finding her. She enlists the help of Zoë
Boehm's investigation agency but Sarah's and Zoë's search reveals more secrets than answers
taking them from Oxford's cobbled streets to the rugged outer reaches of the British Isles. As
Zoë and Sarah draw closer to the truth they are caught in a web of conspiracy and come up
against government forces cold-blooded mercenaries and vengeful loners. Down Cemetery Road
is Mick Herron's debut novel and the first book in the Zoë Boehm series.
