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Real Tigers by Mick Herron

The blurb:

Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for failed spies called the ‘slow horses’. One of them, Catherine Standish, knows that chance encounters never happen to spooks.

She’s worked in the Intelligence Service long enough to understand treachery, double-dealing and stabbing in the back. What she doesn’t know is why anyone would target her: a recovering drunk pushing paper with the other lost causes in Jackson Lamb’s kingdom of exiles at Slough House.

Whoever it is holding her hostage, it can’t be personal. It must be about Slough House. Most likely, it is about Jackson Lamb. And say what you like about Lamb, he’ll never leave a joe in the lurch.

He might even be someone you could trust with your life.

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What I've read

• On The Way To The Wedding by Julia Quinn (review to come)
• Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal (review to come)
• Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell (review to come)
• Blue Poles by Tom McIlroy
• We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
• Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
• It's In His Kiss by Julia Quinn
• Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce
• Never Flinch by Stephen King
• Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
• Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
• The Truth by Terry Pratchett
• Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
• Dead Lions by Mick Herron
• The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe with Danny Lore, Yohanca Delgado, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Sheree Renée Thomas, Eve L Ewing
• Snuff by Terry Pratchett
• A Dreadful Murder by Minette Walters
• Thud! by Terry Pratchett
• Gunnawah by Ronni Salt
• When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
• Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
• Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
• Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power by Lech Blaine
• The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
• To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn
• Jingo, by Terry Pratchett
• Year's Best SF 2, edited by David G Hartwell
• Slow Horses by Mick Herron
• The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir
• Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
• Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
• Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang
• An Offer From A Gentleman by Julia Quinn
• Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
• Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett
• The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
• Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
• Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
• Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
• The Drowning House by Cherie Priest
• Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
• Midnight at the Houdini by Delilah S Dawson
• Mort, by Terry Pratchett
• The Terraformers, by Annalee Newitz
• Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi
• Bury Your Gays, by Chuck Tingle
• We'll Prescribe You A Cat, by Syou Ishida, translated by E Madison Shimoda
• Mean Streak, by Rick Morton
• Here One Moment, by Liane Moriarty
• Buried Deep and Other Stories, by Naomi Novik

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