Faraday & Winter Series by Hurley, Graham
Faraday & Winter #0
Backstory
Hurley, Graham
"Backstory" is a book-length companion piece to the critically-acclaimed
and commercially successful series of crime fiction novels set in
Portsmouth and featuring D/I Joe Faraday and D/C Paul Winter. I wrote it
in response to literally hundreds of e-mails from readers wanting to
find out more about the books. Where do they come from? Why do they feel
so real, so authentic? In short, what does it take to turn the small
print of sharp-end CID work in one of the UK's roughest cities into
page-turning drama? All this - and much, much more - lie within these
pages.
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Faraday & Winter #1
Turnstone
Hurley, Graham
Portsmouth is a city on the ropes, a poor, dirty but spirited city, with
a soaring crime rate. And it is home for DI Joe Faraday. Faraday has
made it in the CID through diligence, an unswerving commitment to
principle and an uncanny knack for gauging character. Slow to make
friends, a widower bringing up his profoundly deaf son, Faraday pushes
himself hard and expects the same from his colleagues. Stories abound of
the quiet DI's sudden, volcanic outbursts of fury directed at inferiors
and superiors alike who haven't matched his own exacting standards. An
enigma to those he works with, Faraday's refuge from the desperate
business of policing his hometown is his passion for the natural world
and the bird life that teems on the beaches and estuaries of the South
coast. And now the sinking of one of the yachts in the Fastnet race is
beginning to look like the perfect cover for a murder that cuts to the
core of Portsmouth's money set. But only Joe Faraday believes it
happened.
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Faraday & Winter #2
The Take
Hurley, Graham
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...
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Faraday & Winter #3
Angels Passing
Hurley, Graham
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 . . .
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Faraday & Winter #5
Cut To Black
Hurley, Graham
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.
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Faraday & Winter #6
Blood And Honey
Hurley, Graham
The discovery of a headless corpse on the rocks below cliffs on the Isle
of Wight is only the beginning of a journey for DI Joe Faraday to the
centre of the grim trade in human cargo from the crippled societies of
the Balkans. From cheap labour to prostitution, Portsmouth, like every
other city in the UK is home to untold human misery; a black economy
built on illegal immigration. Joe Faraday is determined to find the real
criminals that lie behind the tabloid hysteria. Detective Constable
Winter on the other hand is determinded only to find a way out of the
disciplinary action that threatens his entire career. A burgeoning
relationship with a young prostitute isn't exactly helping his cause.
Graham Hurley has written another vivid novel of all too human policeman
struggling against an overwhelming tide of crime. This is crime writing
with a vivid edge of documentary realism.
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Faraday & Winter #7
One Under
Hurley, Graham
A man, 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. A bizarre suicide?
The cruelest 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 their 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. Once
again Graham Hurley has taken his forensic skill to the lives of people,
victims, criminals and police, struggling to survive life in a modern
British city. With his trademark realism and his focus on two very
different policeman; one awkward and by the book, the other bolshy and
walking the thinnest of lines, Hurley's Faraday and Winter novels are
earning ever more spectacular reviews, and building readership. One
Under: two deaths, two tangles of emotions and thwarted love, one
brilliant microcosm of Britain today.
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Faraday & Winter #8
The Price Of Darkness
Hurley, Graham
D/C Winter has gone undercover in an attempt to infiltrate the inner
circle of the city's premier drug's lord Bazza McKenzie. Isolated from
his colleagues, resenting the way his superiors have presented him the
job as a fait accompli and abroad in a world where money is easy and
respect is earned in brutally straightforward ways, DC Winter is in his
element. Worryingly so...Concerns amongst his superiors that Winter may
finally have had too much temptation put in his path are soon supplanted
by two vicious murders. First a high-profile local property developer
is shot, with clinical efficiency, in his own bed. A few days later a
government minister, on a visit to the city, is assassinated by two
helmeted motorcyclists while his car is stuck in a traffic jam. A
fevered investigation begins with Winter's erstwhile boss, D/I Faraday,
in charge. With clues hard to come by, the government panicking and the
anti-terrorist branch circling Faraday is shoved off the case and left
in charge just of the investigation into the property developer's
murder.With more time on his hands Faraday is also tasked with keeping
track of Winter and he soon discovers that Winter, the arch-conspirator,
has been set up.As Winter begins to realize what his bosses had
in mind for him and Faraday begins to put together the pieces of a
heartbreaking story of personal and political betrayal that may well
link the two murders, the story becomes a study of the
desperate measures some people take when their friends and their society
let them down.
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Faraday & Winter #9
No Lovelier Death
Hurley, Graham
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.
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Faraday & Winter #10
Beyond Reach
Hurley, Graham
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.
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Faraday & Winter #11
Borrowed Light
Hurley, Graham
The new Faraday and Winter novel takes DI Faraday to the very edge. A car accident during a holiday in the Middle East lands Faraday in a hospital packed with the maimed from Gaza, where he embarks on a wild scheme to adopt a horribly burned Palestinian girl. Back in England crimelord Bazza McKenzie is watching his empire fall apart under the pressures of the biggest recession in 70 years. Desperate times call fordesperate measures and soon ex-cop Winter is in the thick of it as Bazza runs out of options.
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Faraday & Winter #12
Happy Days
Hurley, Graham
As ex-drug baron Bazza Mackenzie runs for
parliament, ex-cop Paul Winter knows that his time with Bazza must, at
whatever cost, come to an end, in the 12th in this highly acclaimed
series of police procedurals DI Faraday
is gone and the police are left reeling. As his boss attempts to limit
any possible PR damage, his one time shadow on the force, ex-DC Winter,
is ever more concerned that he may have made the biggest mistake of his
life throwing in his lot with the city's drug baron, Bazza
McKenzie—especially as Bazza becomes increasingly desperate and violent
as his empire begins to crumble under the weight of austere times. And,
in the person of DS Jummy Suttle there's a new will at the heart of the
embattled police force to nail Bazza once and for all, the one man
Faraday was always desperate to bring to justice. Graham Hurley's
trademark authenticity has been allied to an ever increasing sense of
drama as he charts the lives of his vivid characters and paints a
stunning portrait of a city and a country at war with itself, a war
which throws the police into the front line.
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