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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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A missing gynaecologist with a long list of aggrieved patients leads to a complicated case for DI Faraday.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Hurley seems to be pretty new to the crime game but he writes like a past master. This is the second book to feature Detective Inspector Faraday and the brutal, underhand Detective Constable Winter. Faraday plays it straight and, just for once, doesn't seem to have a problem with the booze. He's an awkward but endearing character at a complete loss with women and never happier than when bird (feathered kind!) watching.
Winter is an old style game player, a man prepared to bend the rules in order to get results. He and Faraday have an uneasy relationship to say the least. I won't give anything away on the plot except to say its a cracker. The real star though is the location; Portsmouth. An unlikely place to set a series of crime novels you might think but read this and the first book Turnstone and you quickly realise that, depressingly, it is in fact the perfect locale. Poverty, violence leavened by a real spirit. And it's an island - which I never realised. I really hope there are more to come. If you like Reginald Hill and Mike Resnick's books you'll love Hurley. Rankin fans will find much to like here too. Watch this space.
Winter is an old style game player, a man prepared to bend the rules in order to get results. He and Faraday have an uneasy relationship to say the least. I won't give anything away on the plot except to say its a cracker. The real star though is the location; Portsmouth. An unlikely place to set a series of crime novels you might think but read this and the first book Turnstone and you quickly realise that, depressingly, it is in fact the perfect locale. Poverty, violence leavened by a real spirit. And it's an island - which I never realised. I really hope there are more to come. If you like Reginald Hill and Mike Resnick's books you'll love Hurley. Rankin fans will find much to like here too. Watch this space.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm probably the wrong person to offer an ojective review as I've become a total devotee of Graham Hurley's crime novels. The only other author suck me in to his so totally is Terry Pratchett. The novels are so characterised by the Portsmouth locations and atmosphere that as a (near) Portsmouth resident, you can't help but be drawn in.
The plots are very clever and genuine human reactions to the events are portrayed. It's possible that one might tire of the detailed police procedures and intrigues but I don't so am steadily working my way through the whole series.
I'm 50 years old and have been an avid reader all my life so don't waste time on books that don't cut it, this one does so highly recommended.
The plots are very clever and genuine human reactions to the events are portrayed. It's possible that one might tire of the detailed police procedures and intrigues but I don't so am steadily working my way through the whole series.
I'm 50 years old and have been an avid reader all my life so don't waste time on books that don't cut it, this one does so highly recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This second outing for DI Faraday and most of his colleagues from the first book is another compelling murder mystery set in and around Portsmouth. I'm not sure readers will be particularly endeared to the city but they should be coming to like the main protagonist.
This story revolves around another missing person, presumed murdered and a lot of the activity in this book follows DC Paul Winter, a somewhat embittered and very unhappy DC who is not averse to bending the rules if it gains him a result and, more to the point, gets him one over on Faraday.
Thankfully, Faraday is blissfully unaware of this backdrop as he, too, sets out to solve not just the missing person mystery but also the exact circumstances surrounding the premature death of a colleague in a car accident, a flasher on the loose in the parks and, of course, the way his own personal life is shaping up.
That all these aspects come together during the storytelling is a tribute to the author who does not let the investigations flag whilst at the same time bringing in the personal lives and upheavals accompanying them for some of the Force.
Thankfully, too, Faraday seems to be getting to grips with his relationship with his deaf son and, to a point, his love-life, so I look forward now to 'Angels Passing' to see if further progress is made.
This story revolves around another missing person, presumed murdered and a lot of the activity in this book follows DC Paul Winter, a somewhat embittered and very unhappy DC who is not averse to bending the rules if it gains him a result and, more to the point, gets him one over on Faraday.
Thankfully, Faraday is blissfully unaware of this backdrop as he, too, sets out to solve not just the missing person mystery but also the exact circumstances surrounding the premature death of a colleague in a car accident, a flasher on the loose in the parks and, of course, the way his own personal life is shaping up.
That all these aspects come together during the storytelling is a tribute to the author who does not let the investigations flag whilst at the same time bringing in the personal lives and upheavals accompanying them for some of the Force.
Thankfully, too, Faraday seems to be getting to grips with his relationship with his deaf son and, to a point, his love-life, so I look forward now to 'Angels Passing' to see if further progress is made.
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The take
An excellent read DI Faraday is a very interesting and complex character. The city of Portsmouth is brought alive as you are taken through the intriguing goings on.
Published 1 month ago by Deborah J. McGrath
Brilliant
The Take was my number two Hurley book, by now I am on number 6 and can't stop! I love the way he engages you and makes you wonder. 5 stars from me - happy reading!
Published 8 months ago by Silvia
Memorable take on Portsmouth
I don't think Graham Hurley's novels will do anything to boost Portsmouth's tourist trade. Best read on a cold wet Autumn evening for maximum effect. It is not 'Midsummer'. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Noel
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I've never been to Portsmouth, but I feel I am getting to know it and some of Mr. Hurley's characters too
Published on 25 Jan 2010 by Mr. Patrick J. Larkin
The Take
Once you read Graham Hurley's DI Joe Faraday you will become hooked and buy the whole series todate. You can't put them down and they are accurate and believable. Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2009 by L. Goulding
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