Mick Herron, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England in 1963, is perhaps best known for his popular Slough House series, one of the more successful television adaptations on Apple TV. Among the numerous awards for which Herron has been nominated, he won the 2013 Crime Writer’s Association Gold Dagger award for Dead Lions, book number two in the Slough Series, and was awarded the Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement in 2025.
Zoë Boehm Series (4):
1. Down Cemetery Road (2003)
2. The Last Voice You Hear (2004)
3. Why We Die (2006)
4. Smoke and Whispers (2009)
The Slough House Series (9 novels, 5 novellas):
1. Slow Horses (2010) novel
2. Dead Lions (2013) novel
2.5 The List (2015) novella
3. Real Tigers (2016) novel
4. Spook Street (2017) novel
5. London Rules (2018) novel
5.5 The Drop (called The Marylebone Drop in the UK) (2018) novella
6. Joe Country (2019) novel
6.3 The Catch (2020) novella
6.5 The Last Dead Letter (2020) novella
7. Slough House (2021) novel
8. Bad Actors (2022) novel
8.3 Standing by the Wall (2022) novella
9. Clown Town (2025) novel
Standalone Novels (using many of the Slough House characters):
1. Reconstruction (2008) Set before SlowHorses
2. Nobody Walks (2015) Set after The List, before Spook Street
3. This Is What Happened (2018)
4. The Secret Hours (2023) Set after Bad Actors and before the Slough House series even begins
Short Story Collections:
1. All the Livelong Day (2013) Includes two Zoë Boehm stories
2. Dolphin Junction (2021) Includes stories featuring Jackson Lamb from the Slough House series and Zoë Boehm from that series
3.Standing by the Wall (2022) Includes all of the Slough House novellas published as of 2022
