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Angels Passing

Graham Hurley

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Faraday once again pounding the streets of Portsmouth’s unforgiving city. As well as a gritty, edgy police procedural Hurley makes a valid social comment on the breakdown of society that nobody seems to care about. Great characters and plotlines keep you gripped from start to end.

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

Angels Passing by Graham Hurley

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.

Reviews

This crime story opens powerfully with a scene set among the 'malevolent presence
of Portsmouth city

's tower blocks, where the results of a young girl's 'terrible pact with gravity'
unfold in all their grimness. As the rain falls relentlessly on Detective Inspector Faraday, he finds himself once again carrying on through the harsh realities of his day job, and it

's easy to picture the wasteland location. The swift pace is perfectly maintained by Hurley as he switches between characters, one minute letting them off alone, the next bringing them together, convincingly describing their real relationships, tensions and rivalries. The politics of policing, too, come under the author's microscope as he deals with the clash between old-school ideas and the developing culture of seminars and workshops, committees and thinktanks; a clash in which the traditional, informal reliance on grasses and surreptitious phonecalls comes a poor second to increasingly 'hard intelligence'. Authenticity is ensured by a taut storyline that develops against a well-researched backdrop of the procedures and roles of all those involved in such investigations. As the investigation into the teenager's death progresses to include a nonagenarian and a mysterious ten-year-old with 'a history of nuisance', a local drug dealer meets an unpleasant end, and that, too, must be investigated by the hard-pushed police, busily juggling jobs with home lives, and trying to maintain some semblance of normality in the process. Hurley's Portsmouth is compellingly portrayed as an unforgiving city, a place where social problems are mounting up, and nobody seems to care. Such bleak surroundings and the attitudes of hard-bitten protagonists like Faraday and DC Paul Winter add an edginess to this novel, as it navigates around the often uncomfortable limbo that thrives between the good guys and the bad guys. (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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Format
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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
3rd April 2003

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