By Faye Herold, Library Committee Member

Don’t say there’s nothing new under the sun until you have sampled Mick Herron’s comic take on spy novels under the heading Slough House.  The workers inside are mess-ups, spies in the mold of .007 and George Smiley, but with a black mark that has relegated them to second-class (No! Let’s say 7th or 8th class) British spookdom.  Is it possible for such a rag-tag, not-at-all-cohesive bunch to achieve anything?

Come to “a back door which sticks in all weathers,” climb “a staircase whose creaking suggests imminent collapse,” and be ready for four stories of offices housing a thriller you can’t put down.

Slow Horses is the first in a series of six Slough House novels. 

By Carol Van Why, Library Committee Co-Chair
Originally published in the June 2019 issue of the 1666 Coffman Newsletter

New committee members, Faye Herold and JoAnn Jonas, bring lots of energy and experience to the table.

2019 borrowing is on pace to exceed just over 1,000 loans to residents, probably because of the great new books that have arrived this year.

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