This is book 2 in the Zoe Boehm series. The first, Down Cemetery Road, featured Sarah Tucker as the main character until Zoe appeared half way through the story. Here, Zoe takes the lead from the beginning until Sarah becomes involved later in this dramatic, heart stopping, nail biting thriller.
Zoe is hired to find a man who, apparently, had been romantically involved with a woman who fell to her death from a train station platform. The woman’s former employer tells Zoe that although he had never met the man he knew his name and would like to get in touch with him in case he doesn’t know the woman has died. Zoe accepts the case and sets out to find Alan Talmadge. How she goes about it makes a fabulous, fascinating, terrific (enough superlatives, do you think?) story. Oh, I think I left out ‘hugely intelligent’.
Rather amazingly, while Zoe is in London at the beginning of her search an incident from her past rears up and so two stories begin to be played out in a totally satisfying, Mick Herron kind of way. This storyline is like no other I have ever read. It is intricate, complicated but totally believable and very, very clever.
I didn’t want to get out of bed this morning because it was cold outside but I couldn’t have anyway because The Last Voice You Hear wouldn’t let me out of its grip.
Who to play Zoe Boehm if ever the series is turned into a Netflix blockbuster? I’m thinking Rachael Stirling, Diana Rigg’s daughter.
5 out of 5
Published by John Murray
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