Dolphin Junction: Stories

Written by Mick Herron

Narrated by Gerard Doyle, Julia Franklin, Emma Powell and David Thorpe

CWA Gold and Steel Dagger–winner Mick Herron's short fiction, collected here for the first time.

Mick Herron, author of the Slough House novels, is on his way to becoming one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally important crime fiction writers of the twenty-first century. He has been awarded both the Gold and Steel Daggers by
the Crime Writers’ Association and has been called “the John Le Carré of the future” (BBC). But Mick Herron does more than “just” write flawlessly suspenseful spy thrillers. He is a craftist of the highest order, irrepressibly versatile in form
(novels, novellas, short fiction) and mood (witty, taut, spooky, laugh-out-loud funny), whose “efficient, darkly witty, tipped-with-imagery sentences … feel purpose-built to perforate [our] private daze of illiteracy” (The Atlantic).

Now, for the first time, Herron’s short fiction has been collected into one volume. In Dolphin Junction, devoted fans and future converts alike will find much to amuse, delight, and terrify them. Five standalone nerve-rackingly thrilling crime
fiction stories are complemented by four mystery stories featuring the Oxford wife-and-husband detective team of shrewd Zoë Boehm and hapless Joe Silvermann. The collection also includes a peek into the past of Jackson Lamb, irascible top agent at Slough House.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781705044940

Reviews for Dolphin Junction

[susannelson_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

These stories were a complete surprise with twisty endings, and unexpected plot turns. I found them to be a delight.

[ericlee_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

While we wait for the next Slough House novel to come out (on 12 May, but who’s counting) and for the Apple TV series based on that those characters (no release date yet), along comes this collection of previously-published Mick Herron short stories. Some are stand-alone stories, some feature his Oxford-based private investigator Zoë Boehm and there’s one featuring my own personal favourite, Jackson Lamb. The stories are consistently interesting, usually surprising and have certainly tempted me to read the Zoë Boehm books. Highly recommended.

[eyejaybee · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I am not normally a great fan of short stories, and probably would not have bothered buying this collection if I had not seen signed copies on sale at Daunt Books. I have always been a sucker for a signed copy, and combined with my enjoyment of Mick Herron’s novels, and particularly the marvellous series featuring the incomparable Jackson Lamb, it proved too tempting to resist.There are some great stories here, including four featuring Zoe Boehm, the Oxford-based private eye who has featured in four of Herron’s novels, and a wonderful one featuring Lamb himself. I enjoyed dipping into them, reading one or two stories in between the other novels that I have been working through, but I feel that my prejudice against the format has not yet been eradicated.