Latest installment 'bout the Sloughiest of Houses and the reason I'm listening to most of the rest on audio. Nasty political advisor to the PM gets up to nasty business, Slough House stumbles into the mounting chaos and gives it a shove. In some ways these are an amazing exploration of modern human inadequacy, helplessness and sense of encroaching doom, and you can usually tell who the villains are by the ones who don't feel them so much, and Roddy Ho.

Relistened to this, why not, and loved Shirley Danders acheiving full apotheosis as action hero, albeit in a way that makes you worry Herron might be setiing the reader up for horrible heartbreak, the way he sometimes does.