Mystery novelist Mick Herron has a knack for crafting stories that make for good TV series. But before he became a household name thanks to the success of Apple’s adaptation of his Slow Horses series , Emma Thompson said she had long been a fan of the Gold Dagger winner’s books.

“I’ve been a Mick Herron fan before Slow Horses came out, and long before he was thought of for television. When I first read him, I thought he was extraordinary,” Thompson, 66, tells Postmedia in a virtual interview.

With the Emmy-nominated Slow Horses , now in its fifth season, becoming one of Apple’s most popular original series, thanks to Gary Oldman’s leading role as the acerbic Jackson Lamb, it didn’t take long for TV execs to narrow in on another one of Herron’s works. Morwenna Banks, who adapted

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