Product Description

A man is chained inside a tunnel and then dismembered and scattered along the tracks by the early morning train from Portsmouth to London. The beginning of DI Joe Faraday's most gruesome case yet, but is it a bizarre suicide or the cruellest of murders? Checking the list of missing persons as the police attempt to identify the body DC Winter comes across a missing man, someone who stepped out of his ordered life with no hint of leaving. He's not the man in the tunnel, he's simply disappeared. The only person he can find who knew him works in the city morgue... ONE UNDER: two crimes, two tangles of emotions and thwarted love, one brilliant microcosm of Britain today.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31921 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH
''A first-rate thriller, which is graphic and gritty and will hit you right in the stomach from the very start.'

Review
'There is no-one writing better police procedurals today than Graham Hurley. He gives an almost cinematic quality to the narrative, creating a convincing sense of watching a team of real detectives at work' (Suzanna Yager SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )

'Hurley is one of the great talents of British police procedurals. Every book he delivers is better than the last and ONE UNDER is no exception. I can't recommend it highly enough' (Mark Timlin INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )

'A first-rate thriller, which is graphic and gritty and will hit you right in the stomach from the very start.' (PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH )

'A wonderfully plotted yarn' (SUNDAY TRIBUNE (Ireland) )

'ONE UNDER is a majestic book. It's immaculately-plotted, has a strong character to anchor it, and shows police work in all its graft and frustrations' (REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE )

Hurley started the DI Faraday series in 2000, when you might have thought the genre didn't need another police series. But he brings something different to an overworked medium...The story begins in the dark of a train tunnel, and finishes in the darkness of men's hearts.' (TANGLED WEB )

Suzanna Yager, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'There is no-one writing better police procedurals today than Graham Hurley. He gives an almost cinematic quality to the narrative, creating a convincing sense of watching a team of real detectives at work'

Customer Reviews

Better than all the rest!
First of all, I should state I am from Portsmouth.

Graham Hurley's novels about Portsmouth, Faraday and Winter are absolutely spot on. He captures the spirit of the city and its environs - the Isle of Wight and parts of south east Hampshire - to a "T". His characters are realistic and his narratives are spell binding.

Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly eat your respective hearts out!

As you may have gathered, I highly recommend Graham Hurley's Faraday novels - buy the lot and start from the beginning!

Top of the tree
Hurley is the top of the police-procedural hierarchy. I find Rankin a vastly overrated self-publicist, and many other police procedurals are ho-hum at best.
The key to Hurley, as another reviewer pointed out, is the sense of place. My father was a cop in Portsmouth, and the atmosphere, the language, the description and the sense of sneering, striving desperation is spot-on.
Allied to this, Hurley's characters ring true, and he is prepared to leave a crime unsolved, something many others in the genre would do well to attempt.

Perhaps not his best, but...
No, I don't think this is his best, but that still puts it pretty high up in my opinion. Hurley has to be the best this country has in trerms of police-procedural. As others have said, begin with the first one [Turnstone] and read them all [this one is N07]. So why not 5*? I think he may have taken on too much here. There are two inquiries with inevitably a whole heap of characters which I tended to find confusing. He does go into psychology quite a bit as well and I'm not sure if I like the ending. I'm another one who didn't know Faraday had a beard!!!!!!! As in other books, Winter tends to dominate, even if he's a bit different this time [for an obvious reason to those who've read thus far] but he's nonetheless likeable. I don't know Portsmouth that well but I do get the feeling Hurley has it spot on. Excellent feeling of place. I'm already looking for the next one!