Dolphin Junction

Stories

Hardcover, 312 pages

Published by Soho Crime.

ISBN:
978-1-64129-302-0
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5 stars (1 review)

Mick Herron, author of the Slough House novels, is on his way to becoming one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally important crime fiction writers of the twenty-first century. He has been awarded both the Gold and Steel Daggers by the Crime Writers' Association and has been called "the John Le Carré of the future" (BBC). But Mick Herron does more than "just" write flawlessly suspenseful spy thrillers. He is a craftist of the highest order, irrepressibly versatile in form (novels, novellas, short fiction) and mood (witty, taut, spooky, laugh-out-loud funny), whose "efficient, darkly witty, tipped-with-imagery sentences . . . feel purpose-built to perforate [our] private daze of illiteracy" (The Atlantic). Now, for the first time, Herron's short fiction has been collected into one volume. In Dolphin Junction, devoted fans and future converts alike will find much to amuse, delight, and terrify them. Five standalone nerve-rackingly thrilling crime fiction …

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Great (although sometimes disturbing) stories

5 stars

The one story featuring Jackson Lamb and Molly Doran make this a must-read for Slow Horses fans.

The great find for me were the stories with Zoe Boehm. I've now got a whole set of novels to track down and go through.

<spoiler>Mick Herron seems to prefer taking you somewhere that you weren't expecting to go</spoiler>