I have read this before, but found it absolutely brilliant 2nd time round. The Slough House characters (and indeed the house itself) are all so well delineated that you are revisiting a familiar gang every time you read one, although typically new aspects are drawn out of some of them in every book, (except maybe Jackson Lamb, River and Lady Di, who are a bit predictable in each book). The plotting is tremendous, as is Herron’s caustic and cynical prose. The team don’t usually all survive, but that just creates a slot for a new member in the next book. Brilliant.
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