Product Description

DI Joe Faraday's Management Assistant, Vanessa Parry, is dead, killed in a head-on car smash. Her funeral is a bitter end to another grim week in the front line of the ongoing war against Portsmouth's surging crimewave. And now the seemingly untouchable DC Paul Winter, master of the scam, has been hurt in a way he could never have imagined: his wife has cancer. It's inoperable and she has barely three months to live. Paul Winter has only one instinct - to lash out. But there's precious little time for grief on a Portsmouth CID squad. A disgraced gynaecologist is missing and his caseload of maimed women is a murder-suspect list from hell. It all adds up to an impossible workload, and that's without the suits and the politicians conspiring to make it even harder...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10337 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
DI Joe Faraday's Management Assistant, Vanessa Parry, is dead. Killed in a head-on car smash. Her funeral is a bitter end to another grim week in the front line of the ongoing war against Portsmouth's surging crimewave. And now the seemingly untouchable DC Paul Winter, master of the scam, has been hurt in a way he could never have imagined: his wife has cancer. It's inoperable and she has barely three months to live. Paul Winter has only one instinct - to lash out. But there's precious little time for grief on a Portsmouth CID squad. A disgraced gynaecologist is missing and his caseload of maimed women is a murder-suspect list from hell. It all adds up to an impossible workload and that's without the suits and the politicians conspiring to make it even harder...

About the Author
Graham Hurley is an award-winning TV documentary maker who now writes full time. He lived in Portsmouth for 20 years. He is married and has grown up children. He now lives in Exmouth, Devon.

Customer Reviews

Moving and gripping crime novel - nop notch stuff!
Hurley seems to be pretty new to the crime game but he writes like a past master. This is the second book to feature Detective Inspector Faraday and the brutal, underhand Detective Constable Winter. Faraday plays it straight and, just for once, doesn't seem to have a problem with the booze. He's an awkward but endearing character at a complete loss with women and never happier than when bird (feathered kind!) watching.
Winter is an old style game player, a man prepared to bend the rules in order to get results. He and Faraday have an uneasy relationship to say the least. I won't give anything away on the plot except to say its a cracker. The real star though is the location; Portsmouth. An unlikely place to set a series of crime novels you might think but read this and the first book Turnstone and you quickly realise that, depressingly, it is in fact the perfect locale. Poverty, violence leavened by a real spirit. And it's an island - which I never realised. I really hope there are more to come. If you like Reginald Hill and Mike Resnick's books you'll love Hurley. Rankin fans will find much to like here too. Watch this space.

The Take
Once you read Graham Hurley's DI Joe Faraday you will become hooked and buy the whole series todate. You can't put them down and they are accurate and believable. Buy one now - you won't regret it!!