Praise for Mick Herron's Slough House series: . The finest new crime series this Millennium Mail on Sunday Mick Herron is the real deal Irish Times I can't wait to read what Mick Herron writes next Crime Fiction Lover Surely among the finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years Metro Herron has the comedy and eye to rival Len Deighton Sunday Telegraph Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today Publishers Weekly Delightful ... with a dry humour reminiscent of Greene and Waugh Sunday Times

Mick Herron is a novelist and short story writer whose books include the Slough House series, the first of which - the Steel-Dagger nominated Slow Horses - has been described as the 'most enjoyable British spy novel in years'. The second Slough House novel, Dead Lions, won the 2013 CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger, and was picked by the Sunday Times as one of the best 25 crime novels of the past five years. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.