by Graham Hurley
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by Graham Hurley
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by Graham Hurley
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by Graham Hurley
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by Graham Hurley
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In great crime fiction writing, what really matters is not what happened or where, but why, and it is here that the central character acts as a lens focusing our attention on the things which make us not just human, but also fallible. Great crime fiction is a treatise on the human condition and Hurley, in only his second novel, shows himself to be an astute pop-psychologist. What begins as a simple missing person case involving a disgraced gynaecologist soon develops into a pain-tinged personal vendetta played against a backdrop of personal failings, professional pressures and misheld beliefs. With DI Joe Faraday just off-centre, Hurley focuses his writer's gaze on the people around him, questions the value of justice in the modern world and dares you to disagree with him. In a novel that works on several levels at once, he's somehow managed to produce the kind of writing British crime fiction has been seeking for the past 20 years. His characters are fully rounded, each living a life that continues off the page. His observations of what it is that makes humans tick in today's world would not be out of place in a course on psychology, and his sense of pace keeps the several strands of the story taut, reeling the reader in an inch at a time. And his terse prose captures the essence of W H Auden's words: "Law is neither wrong, nor right/Law is only crimes/Punished by places and by times..." (Kirkus UK)
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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 DS 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. In its marrying of an intensely strong sense of place with believable and flawed characters for the reader to empathise with, THE TAKE is an exemplar of classic crime fiction. Hurley's love for his home town and uniquely close links with the local police force make for a crime series that reeks of authenticity. It gets to the core of the society that we have made for ourselves while never losing sight of the need for stories that pack a powerful emotional punch.
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