Mick Herron author biography, plus links to books by Mick Herron.

Mick Herron

Mick Herron is a British novelist and short story writer who was born in Newcastle and studied at Oxford. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling Slough House espionage series, four Zoë Boehm mysteries, and several standalone novels. His work has won the CWA Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement in Crime Writing, the Gold Dagger, the Steel Dagger, the Theakstons Novel of the Year Award, the Barry Award, the Ellery Queen Readers Award, the Raymond Chandler Award, and the Pepe Carvalho Award. Slow Horses and Down Cemetery Road have both been adapted into Apple Original series. Mick is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Oxford and writes full-time.

This biography was last updated on 10/07/2025.

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