Mick Herron is a novelist and short story writer whose books include the Sarah Tucker/Zoë Boehm series, the standalone novel Reconstruction, and Slow Horses, which has been called the “most enjoyable British spy novel in years”* and was shortlisted for the 2010 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.
His short stories, the Barry-nominated “Proof of Love” among them, regularly appear in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and anthologies including The Crime Writers’ Association’s M.O. and The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime, Volumes 7 and 8. His novella “Dolphin Junction” was joint winner of the 2009 Ellery Queen Readers Award.
Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.
* John Williams, Mail on Sunday