A few of my favorite things

Here they are, my recommended books that I've read over the past year.

by Dietrich

Like Terry, I'm quite taken by Mick Herron's Slough House books. Slow Horses, from 2010, is the first in this remarkable series about Slough House, where washed-up MI5 agents are relegated to while away what's left of their failed careers. But when a Pakistani youth is kidnapped and threatened with beheading by a right-wing extremist group, the Slow Horses spring into action, and in spite of their shortcomings th...