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Start with Slow Horses and continue through all 13 books in the listed reading order.
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Book 2 by Mick Herron • Published 2010
Disgraced MI5 officer River Cartwright and his fellow 'slow horses' are exiled to Slough House to push paper under the toxic Jackson Lamb. When a student is kidnapped by a far right group, their forgotten unit sees a...
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Ends with Standing by the Wall
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Book 2:Slow Horses
Mick Herron • 2010 • 1 recommendation
Disgraced MI5 officer River Cartwright and his fellow 'slow horses' are exiled to Slough House to push paper under the toxic Jackson Lamb. When a student is kidnapped by a far right group, their forgotten unit sees a...
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Book 4:Dead Lions
Mick Herron • 2013
After a washed up former spy dies on a London bus, Jackson Lamb suspects murder and a link to Cold War legend Alexander Popov. The slow horses’ clumsy investigation uncovers Russian sleeper agents, a suspicious villag...
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Book 5:The List
Mick Herron • 2015
Retired agent Dieter Hess dies quietly in London, but his secret second bank account screams trouble. John Bachelor, the weary MI5 handler who was meant to be watching him, has to find out whether Hess was a double ag...
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Book 7:Real Tigers
Mick Herron • 2016
Catherine Standish, Jackson Lamb’s sober, meticulous assistant, is kidnapped by a man from her past. To get her back, River Cartwright is ordered to break into MI5 headquarters and steal a classified file, pulling the...
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Book 9:Spook Street
Mick Herron • 2017
A suicide bomber strikes a crowded shopping centre just as River Cartwright’s grandfather, once a powerful spymaster, begins to slide into dementia. As secrets from David Cartwright’s past resurface, Slough House must...
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Book 11:The Marylebone Drop
Mick Herron • 2018
Old Cold War veteran Solomon Dortmund spots a suspicious handoff in a Marylebone café and reports it to John Bachelor, the down-on-his-luck minder of retired spies. What looks like a minor bit of tradecraft soon pulls...
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Book 12:London Rules
Mick Herron • 2018
A series of apparently random terror attacks puts Britain on edge while ambitious politicians circle a weakened prime minister. At the same time someone keeps trying to kill Slough House’s resident hacker, Roddy Ho. L...
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Book 13:The Marylebone Drop / The Drop
Mick Herron • 2018
Use the reading order above to move through the series in the intended sequence.
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Book 15:Joe Country
Mick Herron • 2019
Winter closes in on the Welsh hills as the slow horses chase rumours of a missing teenager with ties to one of their dead. While new recruit Lech Wicinski hunts the source of his own disgrace, old enemies resurface an...
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Book 17:The Catch
Mick Herron • 2020
John Bachelor, a burnt-out “milkman” who checks on retired agents, is barely staying ahead of his debts by living in a dead man’s flat. When someone uncovers his secret, he is blackmailed into a perilous errand that q...
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Book 18:Slough House
Mick Herron • 2021
Brexit politics and internal paranoia push Slough House even further into the cold. The unit’s records vanish from official systems, its members start dying in suspicious accidents, and Jackson Lamb has to work out wh...
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Book 20:Bad Actors
Mick Herron • 2022
When star government forecaster Sophie de Greer disappears, her ruthless mentor, political fixer Anthony Sparrow, tries to use the scandal to bring MI5 to heel. Diana Taverner fights for survival, and the slow horses...
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Book 21:Standing by the Wall
Mick Herron • 2022
It is Christmas at Slough House and the slow horses are counting the minutes to the pub. Jackson Lamb hands tech whiz Roddy Ho an odd job doctoring an old photograph, a small favour that stirs up buried memories and s...
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What is the best order to read the Slough House series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with Slow Horses.
How many books are in the Slough House series?
There are 13 books currently listed in the Slough House series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Slough House series?
New readers should start with Slow Horses, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Slough House series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 2010 to 2022.