A judge and his wife go away on holiday and lose everything. While they are away their 17-year-old daughter throws a party, it goes out of control, there is a riot, and she and her boyfriend are murdered. A massive police investigation, stretching the force's resources to breaking point, is launched with DI Faraday in charge. The judge's neighbor who has promised to keep a eye on things while he was away feels he owes the man a debt. And he has his own reputation to think about. He wants the name of the killer. Perhaps it's the neighbor, Bazza McKenzie, a man who made his fortune supplying the city with class-A drugs. Or maybe it's the man in his organization charged with getting the job done, ex-DC Paul Winter. In Graham Hurley's gripping new crime thriller Faraday and Winter are finally on the opposite sides of the law, but they're both after the same thing. Paul Winter is treading his most dangerous line yet.

1982: the Hunger Strikes are over. Ten men are dead. The Provos are calling for revenge. As Britain prepares for war in the South Atlantic, one man plots the ultimate counter strike. His code name? REAPER. The author also wrote "Rules of Engagement". 

The government is running scared. The Sabbathman is killing the people who have gained the most from their policies. His message is clear: "You have ruined this country. None of you are safe". As the public warm to the killer, MI5 are called in to stop him. 

On 2nd August 1990, Iraqi tanks rolled into Kuwait City. The invasion provoked international condemnation and the assembly of the largest task force since D-Day. Yet for two months the huge allied army did nothing. This novel looks at these months and what happened back in New York. 

Time's up for Bazza Mackenzie.  His choke hold on Portsmouth's cocaine market has earned him millions of pounds, money he's invested in a portfolio of legitimate businesses.  Rich and well-connected, he boasts of being beyond the beckoning arm of the law. The police, only too aware of the message Mackenzie sends, have mounted a long-term covert operation, code named Tumbril, to take down the city's biggest criminal.  But when the detective in charge of Tumbril is.  nearly killed in a mysterious hit-and-run, the gloves are off. And it falls to Joe Faraday to put Mackenzie before a judge and jury Tumbril is a career opportunity of a lifetime but the team at the heart of the operation are fighting a war of their own, hemmed in by rules of engagement that leave Faraday deeply uncomfortable.  His grip on events loosens further when his deaf son J-J is himself arrested on a supply charge after the death of a student from a heroin overdose.  As Tumbril gathers speed, and the demands for a result grow ever more pressing, Faraday finds himself totally isolated.  Just who can he really trust?Cut to Black is a gripping thriller about greed, power, corruption, and the iron pressures of political and personal compromise.  At the same time, it offers a remarkable insight into the on-going battle for control of the UK's multi-billion pound drugs business.  Every British city has a Bazza Mackenzie.  And every police chief faces the same question: Just how do you nail him?This is Graham Hurley's fifth novel to feature D/I Joe Faraday and DC Paul Winter.  It follows Turnstone, The Take, Angels Passing and Deadlight An award-winning TV documentary maker, Graham now writes full-time.  He lives with his wife, Lin, in Portsmouth.

Why did a young girl fall to her death from a tower block? And is there a connection with a ten year old boy captured on the block's CCTV system? 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. ANGELS PASSING takes us to the core of Faraday's flawed relationships with both his girlfriend and his son; it reveals more of Winter's brutally effective take on the job and provides a grimly recognisable post mortem report on a society that is coming apart at the seams . . . 

A brutal hit-and-run killing opens the path to another 25-year-old crime  A young couple are mown down in a hit-and-run incident. The girl is badly injured, the boy dies on the way to hospital. According to the sole witness the boy was in the middle of the road giving the approaching car the finger. Operation Melody is launched with DI Faraday at the helm. It reveals a mother driven to desperation by the attacks on her son—and a link to a terrible crime from the early 1980s that the victim does not want investigated. The investigation will rip apart a happy family, but the high-ups are desperate for their cold cases to be cleared up, whatever the cost. And round it all circles ex-DC Paul Winter, who has his own reasons for keeping the lid on an old crime.