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Smoke and Whispers

Zoë Boehm, Book 4

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By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
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Oxford private detective Zoë Boehm turns up dead in Newcastle, launching her friend Sarah Tucker into an investigation with several leads—but no one she can trust.

 

When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoë kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? Why was she wearing the jacket a murderer had stolen years before? And what’s brought Sarah’s former sparring partner Gerard Inchon to the same broken-down hotel she’s staying at? Coincidence is an excuse that soon appears pretty unconvincing. Sarah can’t leave until she’s found the answers to her questions, however dangerous they might turn out to be.

 

“In this assured mystery from British author Herron … does a nice job of planting red herrings and making [Sarah Tucker's] amateur sleuthing plausible.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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This was definitely the weakest of the four Zoe Boehm books. Main problem is that it revolves so much around Sarah - self-obsessed, whiny, self-righteous Sarah is just too much to bear for a whole book. What makes it particularly annoying is that the other characters, especially men, all appear to find Sarah inexplicably witty and attractive. Please kill her off if there are any further to come in the series. The story was also weaker than usual and fairly predictable.

Weakest of Series - too much Sarah!

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