Mick Herron

CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron's debut novel introduces Sarah Tucker, whose search for a missing child unravels a murderous conspiracy. When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tuckera young married woman, bored and unhappy with domestic lifebecomes obsessed with finding her....

A handbook for field professionalsEssentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection guides front line public health practitioners through the decisions they are likely to face when dealing with environmental health problems. It does this by showing how to integrate relevant aspects of environmental science, communication sciences,...

In CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron's chillingly plausible first standalone,';there is no hiding under the desk' (The New York Times Book Review).When a gunman breaks into South Oxford Nursery School and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy fears the worst. But Jaime Segura isn't there on a homicidal mission, and...

Human Rights, Politics and Public OpinionWith the strengthening focus worldwide on human rights, there has been a rapid increase in recent years in the number of countries that have completely abolished the death penalty. This is in recognition that it is a violation of the right to life and the right to be free from cruel, inhuman and degrading...

The road to hell is paved with all sorts of intentions, as Oxford private investigator Zo Boehm discovers when a straightforward jewelry store robbery turns out to be anything but. When Tim Whitby checks into a hotel in Oxford, he doesn't intend to check out againbut then he meets Katrina Blake, a woman in dire need of help. When Arkle, Baxter...

In Mick Herron's latest novel featuring Sarah Tucker and Zo Boehm, Zo turns up dead in Newcastle, launching Sarah into an investigation with several leadsbut 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 Zo Boehm, but...