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Slough House Books in Order

by Mick HerronMystery, Thriller & Suspense

9 books and 3 novellas from Slow Horses (1705) to Clown Town (2025). Rated 4.6 across 20,960 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Slow Horses

    Book 1 1705 4.2 (5.2k)

    Now a critically acclaimed series on Apple TV+ Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses.

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  2. Dead Lions

    Book 2 1789 4.7 (2.6k)

    London’s Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their careers. The “Slow Horses,” as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here.

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  3. The List

    Novella 2.5 2015 4.5 (601)

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  4. Real Tigers

    Book 3 2016 4.5 (2.4k)

    London: Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after they’ve messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work.

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  5. Spook Street

    Book 4 2017 4.8 (2.1k)

    What happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for aging spies who can no longer remember their secrets are secret? Or are senile spies taken care of in a different, more permanent fashion? These are…

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  6. London Rules

    Book 5 2018 4.7 (1.9k)

    The fifth entry in the CWA Gold Dagger-winning Slough House series featuring Jackson Lamb. London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one: Cover your arse.

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  7. The Marylebone Drop

    Novella 5.5 2018 4.4 (521)

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  8. Joe Country

    Book 6 2019 4.7 (1.7k)

    If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced spies of MI5, memories are stirring, all of them bad.

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  9. The Catch

    Novella 6.5 2020 4.5 (378)

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  10. Slough House

    Book 7 2021 4.7 (1.4k)

    At Slough House - MI5’s London depository for demoted spies - Brexit has taken a toll. The “slow horses” have been pushed further into the cold, Slough House has been erased from official records, and its members are dying in unusual…

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  11. Bad Actors

    Book 8 2022 4.7 (1.4k)

    In London’s MI5 headquarters a scandal is brewing that could disgrace the entire intelligence community. The Downing Street superforecaster—a specialist who advises the Prime Minister’s office on how policy is likely to be received by the…

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  12. Clown Town

    Book 9 2025 4.7 (824)

    THE NINTH BOOK IN THE SERIES BEHIND SLOW HORSES, AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+ Jackson Lamb and the bad spies of Slough House are caught in a deadly battle between MI5’s secret past and its murky future in this…

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Adapted for screen

  • Slow Horses TV series · Apple TV · 2022– · 6 seasons

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Slough House is also the best order to read them in. Novellas and short stories sit between the novels they follow, numbered the way the publisher numbers them (2.5 comes after book 2). They are optional — you can skip them without missing the main story. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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