Product Description

A young girl falls to her death, and the shadowy figure of a young boy is caught on CCTV... DI Joe Faraday is on the case, but his investigation is hampered when resources are switched to a murder enquiry prompted by the discovery of the body of a small time crook on wasteland north of the city. Faraday plunges into Portsmouth's bleak netherworld of wrecked families and children cast adrift in a society too fragmented to care. But as he tracks down the boy, he is faced with a crisis much closer to home.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16404 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 424 pages

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

Graham Hurley is Under-Rated
5 stars is not enough to award this novel from Graham Hurley. This is by far the best DI Joe Faraday novel. Faraday continues to grow in personality, to the point where some CID officers in Portsmouth must believe he works for them. The story is gritty and hard, but the pace never slackens. It has to be the fastest book I have ever read, a book with total interst from the first to the last page.

A good read
A gritty police procedural, which delves into the sordid underbelly of life in Portsmouth, and the lives of many who live on the margins of "respectable" society.

With a healthy dollop of social comment, this is a gripping book.

My only gripe is that the protagonist - surprise surprise - has an unusual home life, and a deaf son - can't these flawed heroes be allowed some normality in their time away from work?

Excellent crime series - DI Winter is the real star..!
While Faraday is the main detective character, it is DI Paul Winter who steals the show through out series. ANGELS PASSING is the 3rd. in the Faraday series and is an excellent, well written, realistic crime novel. Throughout the books the private lives of Faraday and Winter are interwoven seamlessly with the professional careers as cops.
Too may thrillers \ crime novels suffer from Deus ex machine, the ghost in the machine. In this series the developments are credible. Ideally read this series in sequence and you will get a fuller enjoyment of the books.