Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luupäät | 2010 | Mick Herron | N/A |
| 2 | Slow Horses | 2010 | Mick Herron | Buy |
| 3 | Dead Lions | 2013 | Mick Herron | Buy |
| 4 | The List | 2015 | Mick Herron | Buy |
| 5 | Real Tigers | 2016 | Mick Herron | Buy |
| 6 | Spook Street | 2017 | Mick Herron | Buy |
| 7 | London Rules | 2018 | Mick Herron | Buy |
| 8 | The Drop | 2011 | Mick Herron | N/A |
| 9 | Joe Country | 2019 | Mick Herron | Buy |
| 10 | The Catch | 2020 | Mick Herron | Buy |
| 11 | Dolphin Junction | 2012 | Mick Herron | N/A |
| 12 | The Marylebone Drop / The Drop | 2018 | Mick Herron | Buy |
| 13 | Slough House | 2021 | Mick Herron | Buy |
| 14 | Bad Actors | 2022 | Mick Herron | Buy |
| 15 | Standing by the Wall: A Slough House Interlude | 2022 | Mick Herron | N/A |
| 16 | Clown Town | 2025 | Mick Herron | Buy |
| 17 | The Last Dead Letter | 2020 | Mick Herron | N/A |
| 18 | Standing by the Wall | 2022 | Mick Herron | Buy |
The Slough House series is Mick Herron’s best-known work. Starting with Slow Horses (2010), the series follows the misfit intelligence agents exiled to Slough House, a decrepit MI5 office where careers go to die. Their boss, Jackson Lamb, is a slovenly, rude, but brilliantly capable spymaster who has no interest in his agents’ well-being but keeps dragging them into genuine intelligence operations.
The series includes full-length novels (Slow Horses, Dead Lions, Real Tigers, Spook Street, London Rules, Joe Country, Slough House, Bad Actors) along with novellas and short stories that fill gaps between the main entries. The Apple TV+ adaptation starring Gary Oldman premiered in 2022 and has been widely praised.