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A review by pannapark
The Last Voice You Hear by Mick Herron
5.0
The Last Voice You Hear primarily features Zoe Boehm, now solo, working through some difficult personal issues and smoking non-stop while flicking little paper balls at random objects.
Zoe is waiting for an ‘appointment’ and this sets up an angst filled inner dialogue and a tendency to lurch towards things then change direction seemingly on a whim. While riding a train (non-smoking) to London, she intermittently listens to the news through her ear buds and hears that a twelve year old has been found dead on a London housing estate. This random snatch of news eventually throws up a memory of a brief encounter Zoe had with two young robbers three years ago in which she basically told one of them to f off! And the plot is off and running.
Mick Herron serves up another delicious slow burn of a read turning up the heat as the plot races to the end. I really enjoyed this intense second serving of The Oxford Investigations and will read on!
Zoe is waiting for an ‘appointment’ and this sets up an angst filled inner dialogue and a tendency to lurch towards things then change direction seemingly on a whim. While riding a train (non-smoking) to London, she intermittently listens to the news through her ear buds and hears that a twelve year old has been found dead on a London housing estate. This random snatch of news eventually throws up a memory of a brief encounter Zoe had with two young robbers three years ago in which she basically told one of them to f off! And the plot is off and running.
Mick Herron serves up another delicious slow burn of a read turning up the heat as the plot races to the end. I really enjoyed this intense second serving of The Oxford Investigations and will read on!