Still mourning the end of the Inspector Rebus series? Never fear there is a new morose, middle aged cop in town. Well not exactly new but Graham Hurley’s Joe Faraday series does capture some of the seedy flavour of the Rebus novels. Set in Portsmouth, colloquially known as Pompey, these police procedurals have more twists and turns than a twisty-turny thing. The bird watching DI Faraday is infinitely more sensitive than the Scots hard man Rebus but this sensitivity is nicely off-set by DC Winter your more stereotypical boozing, womanising British copper walking the thin blue line.
The price of darkness the eighth in the series has just been released and promises to push the Faraday novels into the limelight.
10 May 2008 at 11:11 pm
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