Slough House Books in Order

Recovering from a near fatal poisoning, River Cartwright looks into a missing book from his late grandfather’s library, only to find it tied to a brutal secret from the Troubles. As the scandal threatens to surface, Slough House and Diana Taverner are dragged into a reckoning.

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 shows a rare, uneasy sentimentality.

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 stumble into a struggle that reaches to the top of power.

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 whether this is coincidence or a quiet, sanctioned purge.

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 quickly spirals beyond his control.

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 and the countryside becomes a killing ground.

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 them into a much larger operation.

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. Lamb’s misfits follow both trails and find the two crises are entangled.

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 stop further attacks and decide how far they will go to protect their own.

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 slow horses into a deadly game of political blackmail.

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 agent before his own career is destroyed.

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 village and an operation that official MI5 would rather ignore.

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 risky chance to matter again.