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Deadlight

Graham Hurley

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When a prison guard is found murdered Joe Faraday begins investigating and finds the victim is not the most savoury of characters himself. Another meaty investigation with brilliant characterisation and twists and turns to keep you on your toes. Graham Hurley is not an author to pass by.

Maxim Jakubowski, a Lovereading expert voice says: Joe Faraday; the investigations of a Portsmouth cop and a fascinating look into crime on the British coast. If you like Ian Rankin’s Rebus, this should be your next step. NO LOVELIER DEATH is the 9th book in the Faraday series.

Joe Faraday series:
1. Turnstone (2000)
2. The Take (2001)
3. Angels Passing (2002)
4. Deadlight (2003)
5. Cut to Black (2004)
6. Blood and Honey (2006)
7. One Under (2007)
8. The Price of Darkness (2008)
9. No Lovelier Death (2009)

Synopsis

Deadlight by Graham Hurley

Freshly promoted to the elite Major Crimes Team, DI Joe Faraday is thrown into the deep end with the investigation into the murder of prison officer Paul Coughlin. Was the violent Coughlin killed by a recently released con he brutalised in prison? Or is his death a legacy of a wider, more savage violence from twenty years before?

Coughlin was an ex-petty officer in the Royal Navy. Not much liked, he served on HMS Accolade, a Type 21 frigate sunk during the Falklands war with the loss of 19 men.

If Faraday is to solve the murder, he must first penetrate the wall of silence thrown up by the Navy. But as he digs deeper, he uncovers a disturbing connection to a crime that has waited twenty years to be avenged . . .

Reviews

This, the fourth of Hurley's novels based around the exploits of Detective Inspector Joe Faraday, continues on from its compelling predecessor, Angels Passing. Once again, the city of Portsmouth supplies an unwelcoming and unfriendly background through which the central character and his colleagues make their way. The hell of being aboard a bombed ship in the Falklands sets the pace, before Hurley brings us right up to the present day, as England prepare to take on their old Argentinian rivals in the 2002 World Cup. While early summer unfolds in 'Murder City
Faraday, who has won himself a place on the Major Crimes Team, worries that work is really having too much of a detrimental effect on his personal life to the extent that it

'becomes a memory'. Little does he know that the brutal murder of a certain Sean Coughlin is going to account for even more of his precious time. The circumstances surrounding Coughlin's demise are peculiar to say the least, and as the investigating police ensure the dead Prison Officer gets the 'five-star service'
a picture develops of a deeply unpleasant and unpopular individual. He has a penchant for extreme pornography and bullying, and a trail of enemies, any one of who could be responsible for his death. The investigation really heats up as a connection is made between his murder and a suspicious death from two decades previously. Once again Hurley

's story moves along at a brilliantly maintained pace, with a cast of well-developed characters playing off each other convincingly and realistically in their professional rivalries and everyday encounters. From the cynicism of Paul Winter to the fastidious Chief Superintendent who wears ironed socks, it all makes for a highly enjoyable, hard-edged and hard-bitten read. Roll on the next instalment. (Kirkus UK)'

About the Author

Graham Hurley was born November, 1946 in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. His seaside childhood was punctuated by football, swimming, afternoons on the dodgems, run-ins with the police, multiple raids on the local library - plus near-total immersion in English post-war

To date he has written, 16 novels , one biography, plus Airshow, a fly-on-the-wall novel-length piece of reportage. He draws gleefully on home-town Portsmouth for the basis of an on-going crime series featuring D/I Joe Faraday and D/C Paul Winter. He has also contributed to columns in the Portsmouth News. He is married to Lin and has three grown-up sons (Tom, Jack and Woody), a wayward cat (Rommie), and the best view in the world. His lifetime ambitions are to master: colloquial French, the trickier bits of Word 2000, windsurfing without tears, and the perfect Chicken Bhuna......

Maxim Jakubowski's view on JOE FARADAY...

The investigations of a Portsmouth cop and a fascinating look into crime on the British coast. If you like Ian Rankin’s Rebus, this should be your next step. NO LOVELIER DEATH is the 9th book in the Faraday series.

A Q & A with Graham Hurley

Who’s your favourite author?
The Alan Furst of The Polish Officer and The World at Night.

Where do you live? And why?
Portsmouth. Because so many people ask me why.

What’s the greatest influence on your writing?
Lin Rowden.

What is your philosophy for life?
Check the tide tables and watch for eddies.

Have you had any formal tuition in creative writing? If so, where and what? Did you find it useful?
BA/MA Cambridge University (English – no help at all). No formal tuition in creative writing except a pathological nosiness and a fascination with story. Profound doubts about collective literary endeavour. Why? Because, in the end, writing is a solitary business.

Did you always want to be an author? If not, what did you originally want to be and when and why did you change your mind?
Yes. And like most authors, I’m not sure why. But – emphatically – yes.

Who do you most admire and why?
My mum (seriously). Because she’s never failed to make the very best of an occasionally dodgy hand. Huge fortitude.

What jobs did you have before you started writing?
Ice cream salesman, deckchair attendant, lifeguard, prep school teacher (scripture and cricket), Radio Victory reporter, TV promotion scriptwriter, TV researcher, TV documentary director/producer, Oz TV cop series writer.

If your house was burning down what would you save?
Lin Rowden, the cats, a framed photo of the Otter estuary, me.

What do you do when you are not writing? How do you relax? What are your hobbies?
Sailing, cycling, nosing around, tussling with French, dreaming of the day Tony Blair resigns.

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432 pages
Interest Age: From 16 To 99

Author
Graham Hurley

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Publisher
Orion Publishing Co

Publication date
1st April 2004

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