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DI Joe Faraday #1
Turnstone
Emma Maloney’s father is missing. DI Joe Faraday thinks he may have been murdered. But these days, a hunch is not enough. Faraday’s squad of detectives is battling with an ever-growing caseload in a city torn by violence, drug-dealing, and petty crime. Who can spare the time and resources for an investigation unsupported by hard evidence? Joe Faraday is struggling with his own demons, and finding Stuart Maloney, dead or alive, turns into a battle not simply for justice, but for sanity.
343 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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About the author
Graham Hurley
70 books151 followersGraham 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 movies.
Directed and produced documentaries for ITV through two decades, winning a number of national and international awards. Launched a writing career on the back of a six-part drama commission for ITV: "Rules of Engagement". Left TV and became full time writer in 1991.
Authored nine stand-alone thrillers plus "Airshow", a fly-on-the-wall novel-length piece of reportage, before accepting Orion invitation to become a crime writer. Drew gleefully on home-town Portsmouth (“Pompey”) as the basis for an on-going series featuring D/I Joe Faraday and D/C Paul Winter.
Contributed five years of personal columns to the Portsmouth News, penned a number of plays and dramatic monologues for local production (including the city’s millenium celebration, "Willoughby and Son"), then decamped to Devon for a more considered take on Pompey low-life.
The Faraday series came to an end after 12 books. Healthy sales at home and abroad, plus mega-successful French TV adaptations, tempted Orion to commission a spin-off series, set in the West Country, featuring D/S Jimmy Suttle.
Launch title - "Western Approaches" - published 2012. "Touching Distance" to hit the bookstores next month (21st November).
Has recently self-published a number of titles on Kindle including "Strictly No Flowers" (a dark take on crime fiction), "Estuary" (a deeply personal memoir) and "Backstory" (how and why he came to write the Faraday series).
Married to the delectable Lin. Three grown-up sons (Tom, Jack and Woody). Plus corking grandson Dylan.
You're very welcome to contact Graham through his website: www.grahamhurley.co.uk
Or direct on seasidepictures@btinternet.com.
Series:
* D.I. Joe Faraday
Directed and produced documentaries for ITV through two decades, winning a number of national and international awards. Launched a writing career on the back of a six-part drama commission for ITV: "Rules of Engagement". Left TV and became full time writer in 1991.
Authored nine stand-alone thrillers plus "Airshow", a fly-on-the-wall novel-length piece of reportage, before accepting Orion invitation to become a crime writer. Drew gleefully on home-town Portsmouth (“Pompey”) as the basis for an on-going series featuring D/I Joe Faraday and D/C Paul Winter.
Contributed five years of personal columns to the Portsmouth News, penned a number of plays and dramatic monologues for local production (including the city’s millenium celebration, "Willoughby and Son"), then decamped to Devon for a more considered take on Pompey low-life.
The Faraday series came to an end after 12 books. Healthy sales at home and abroad, plus mega-successful French TV adaptations, tempted Orion to commission a spin-off series, set in the West Country, featuring D/S Jimmy Suttle.
Launch title - "Western Approaches" - published 2012. "Touching Distance" to hit the bookstores next month (21st November).
Has recently self-published a number of titles on Kindle including "Strictly No Flowers" (a dark take on crime fiction), "Estuary" (a deeply personal memoir) and "Backstory" (how and why he came to write the Faraday series).
Married to the delectable Lin. Three grown-up sons (Tom, Jack and Woody). Plus corking grandson Dylan.
You're very welcome to contact Graham through his website: www.grahamhurley.co.uk
Or direct on seasidepictures@btinternet.com.
Series:
* D.I. Joe Faraday
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February 28, 2013
Graham Hurley's shtick is that he's a thriller writer manque whose publishers offered him a contract to write some police procedurals instead. Nothing odd about that, except that he claims he hates crime novels and never reads them, and wasn't about to start his research for the books by reading any. Nope, wasn't going to start writing pastiches by being over-influenced by what he'd read. Instead, he went off and started shadowing police officers. I'm not sure what I think of all this; I mean, the research is absolutely on the ball, but it's also SOP for crime writers (Rankin did it before his first, as I recall, and that was angled as a psychological Jekyll/Hyde reimagining, not primarily a cop book). The risk with ignoring the existing corpus (sorry...) is that you may think you're coming up with original ideas which have been well trodden in the past. This book includes a loud echo of one of the key events in the career of Michael Connelly's Bosch; any other author, I'd be thinking it was a hat-tip, but in this case I'm thinking it's not knowing the field. Is this disrespect for his peers, or for that matter his readers? There's a big difference between "I don't read this because I think it's trash" and "I don't read this because it isn't to my personal taste", and he's happy to post this interview on his website: www.grahamhurley.co.uk/talking-converted which suggests he does, in fact, hate the stuff. (All of this has resonances in the SF field; literary writers write books which are essentially SF and which cover ideas which have been done to death long ago because they haven't done their research in the field; SF writers move into fantasy which sells much, much better and they can do a living doing basically what they want to do, but they don't say they hate fantasy and won't read it).
I was curious enough to go and find the cheapest Hurley book I could and see what it was like. I was expecting either tedious hack-work, or professionally done hack-work; it wasn't going to be written out of passion for the subject, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. (I know loads of freelance writers, and their work is on the whole carefully researched and extremely well written, whether or not the subject is a passion for them).
It isn't bad at all, actually. Decent characterization (for the most part, though one character's reaction to events is unbelievably muted), decent plot, and I have no idea whether the picture of Portsmouth he conjures up is accurate or not but it reads very well (reminiscent of Rankin's Edinburgh's seedy underside just out of sight of the tourists). Our cop hero? Well, he's a DI, too hands on for his own good, tragically widowed early, drinks too much, pisses off all his superiors, drives a knackered car, has a rocky relationship with his son, pursues cases he's warned off, ends up taking leave with an unspoken threat of that or a brief suspension, only one interest outside work, which is ornithology, and is woven into several plot strands along with building the image of Portsmouth. That last is well done, but, even if it is a different "my one interest outside the job for a bit of character development" than the SPL or the LA jazz scene, the whole still adds up to something very familiar.
So it's well done, but not as exceptional as perhaps the author would like to think. If I'd come across this another way, I'd probably be reading more of these, but as it is, I'm wondering if I actually want to give money and time to a writer who has pretty much said "hey Dom, I don't think much of your taste in books, I've written this right down to your level".
I was curious enough to go and find the cheapest Hurley book I could and see what it was like. I was expecting either tedious hack-work, or professionally done hack-work; it wasn't going to be written out of passion for the subject, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. (I know loads of freelance writers, and their work is on the whole carefully researched and extremely well written, whether or not the subject is a passion for them).
It isn't bad at all, actually. Decent characterization (for the most part, though one character's reaction to events is unbelievably muted), decent plot, and I have no idea whether the picture of Portsmouth he conjures up is accurate or not but it reads very well (reminiscent of Rankin's Edinburgh's seedy underside just out of sight of the tourists). Our cop hero? Well, he's a DI, too hands on for his own good, tragically widowed early, drinks too much, pisses off all his superiors, drives a knackered car, has a rocky relationship with his son, pursues cases he's warned off, ends up taking leave with an unspoken threat of that or a brief suspension, only one interest outside work, which is ornithology, and is woven into several plot strands along with building the image of Portsmouth. That last is well done, but, even if it is a different "my one interest outside the job for a bit of character development" than the SPL or the LA jazz scene, the whole still adds up to something very familiar.
So it's well done, but not as exceptional as perhaps the author would like to think. If I'd come across this another way, I'd probably be reading more of these, but as it is, I'm wondering if I actually want to give money and time to a writer who has pretty much said "hey Dom, I don't think much of your taste in books, I've written this right down to your level".
September 30, 2009
Joe Faraday is a Detective Inspector in Portsmouth, England. He is a widower, father to 22-year-old deaf son J.J., and he is a birder. In short, he is an interesting mix, and about a third of the way into this book, I finally got really interested in him and empathetic toward him.
It wasn't that way at first. At the beginning of the book, Hurley's characters left me a bit flat. I found I really didn't care what happened to them. But as I got to know them a bit better, I began to care and I wanted things to come out well for them in the end.
The story starts simply enough with a young girl, 8-year-old Emman, who has lost her dad and seeks the help of the police in finding out what has happened to him. There are red herrings aplenty that initially lead Faraday in the wrong direction in his investigation of the disappearance.
It turns out that the story is not simple at all. In fact it is extremely complicated. The plot takes lots of twists and turns and for the longest time, it is hard to see how it might all come together with some kind of coherence. Oddly though, it finally does. Not all the loose ends are tied up but enough so that the reader is left with a feeling that some kind of rough justice has been done.
This was Hurley's first entry in this Faraday series and I am advised by those who have read further in the series that the books get better as one goes along. It doesn't hurt at all that this detective is a dedicated birder and the bird references in the book are accurate and lend credibility to the tale.
It wasn't that way at first. At the beginning of the book, Hurley's characters left me a bit flat. I found I really didn't care what happened to them. But as I got to know them a bit better, I began to care and I wanted things to come out well for them in the end.
The story starts simply enough with a young girl, 8-year-old Emman, who has lost her dad and seeks the help of the police in finding out what has happened to him. There are red herrings aplenty that initially lead Faraday in the wrong direction in his investigation of the disappearance.
It turns out that the story is not simple at all. In fact it is extremely complicated. The plot takes lots of twists and turns and for the longest time, it is hard to see how it might all come together with some kind of coherence. Oddly though, it finally does. Not all the loose ends are tied up but enough so that the reader is left with a feeling that some kind of rough justice has been done.
This was Hurley's first entry in this Faraday series and I am advised by those who have read further in the series that the books get better as one goes along. It doesn't hurt at all that this detective is a dedicated birder and the bird references in the book are accurate and lend credibility to the tale.
February 6, 2017
"Pedra Sobre Pedra" é o primeiro livro da série protagonizada pelo inspector Joe Faraday. Este homem solitário é perspicaz e acredita na importância do seu trabalho. O seu passado difícil, caracterizado pela morte da mulher, a descoberta do problema de surdez do filho e todas as responsabilidades acrescidas de um pai solteiro, é a base da sua personalidade forte.
Após a leitura das primeiras páginas, a escrita de Graham Hurley despertou a minha atenção, não só pela inteligência mas também pela fluidez conferida ao texto.
Joe Faraday, a personagem principal, é introduzido ao leitor lenta e detalhadamente. Contudo, o fio condutor da história é desenvolvido numa fase mais tardia do que o normal.
Todo o mistério da obra reside no desaparecimento de Stuart Maloney. Apesar da falta de recursos e pessoal, o inspector Faraday sente-se na obrigação de conduzir uma investigação para descortinar a explicação do sucedido, contrariando a vontade dos seus superiores, que consideram este um caso de pouca importância.
A narrativa é intercalada entre o percurso do nosso investigador principal e de Paul Winter, um homem obstinado, fiel aos seus princípios, que despreza a burocracia e papelada, não olhando a meios para fazer predominar a justiça. É um profissional que joga com os criminosos, tornando-os informadores e aliados, usando informação, para fazer prevalecer o bem.
Ao longo do livro há uma sugestão de um conflito entre estas duas personagens, contudo este não é palpável. Graham Hurley não desenvolve esta relação, pelo contrário, transmite-nos apenas uma vaga ideia que não tem força suficiente para ganhar contornos na mente do leitor. Na minha opinião este é um dos aspectos negativos da obra.
Outra característica que se destacou pela negativa foi a pouca importância conferida à história de vida, personalidade e pensamentos das personagens secundárias. Este facto contribuiu para um maior distanciamento entre mim e a narrativa. A empatia que senti pelo Joe Faraday é forçada, uma vez que esta foi a única personagem que me foi dada a conhecer verdadeiramente. Como apenas conheci as outras personagens de uma forma vaga e superficial não consegui estabelecer nenhum tipo de relação ou formar uma opinião sobre o seu carácter e papel no enredo. Além de tudo isto, em determinadas situações foi-me difícil associar os nomes às personagens.
As aves e navegação são os dois temas abordados pelo autor ao longo deste livro. Graham Hurley faz várias referências a ambos, aponta detalhes específicos e fornece algumas descrições breves, sem explorar exaustivamente as temáticas, evitando, desta forma, aborrecer o leitor menos interessado nestes assuntos. Como nenhum dos temas desperta verdadeiramente a minha atenção, o livro tornou-se, de uma forma gradual, de dificil leitura. A minha capacidade de concentração diminuía a cada página que lia em direcção ao final.
A prostituição e a droga são dois temas que me fascinam imenso e que nunca me canso de ver retratados. Infelizmente, Graham Hurley apenas os aborda superficialmente, atribuindo-lhes a função de embelezamento do ambiente envolvente.
A evolução da investigação policial e a revelação dos acontecimentos que tiveram origem no desaparecimento de Stuart Maloney não foram de encontro às minhas expectativas. A minha surpresa inicial pela qualidade de escrita foi substituída pela desilusão causada por a leitura de um livro que não se destaca, nem pela negativa, nem pela positiva.
Quanto ao desfecho, pode ser descrito da mesma forma que todo o enredo: sem surpresas e sem emoções. É ainda de salientar o facto de algumas tramas secundárias serem deixadas por resolver.
Após a leitura das primeiras páginas, a escrita de Graham Hurley despertou a minha atenção, não só pela inteligência mas também pela fluidez conferida ao texto.
Joe Faraday, a personagem principal, é introduzido ao leitor lenta e detalhadamente. Contudo, o fio condutor da história é desenvolvido numa fase mais tardia do que o normal.
Todo o mistério da obra reside no desaparecimento de Stuart Maloney. Apesar da falta de recursos e pessoal, o inspector Faraday sente-se na obrigação de conduzir uma investigação para descortinar a explicação do sucedido, contrariando a vontade dos seus superiores, que consideram este um caso de pouca importância.
A narrativa é intercalada entre o percurso do nosso investigador principal e de Paul Winter, um homem obstinado, fiel aos seus princípios, que despreza a burocracia e papelada, não olhando a meios para fazer predominar a justiça. É um profissional que joga com os criminosos, tornando-os informadores e aliados, usando informação, para fazer prevalecer o bem.
Ao longo do livro há uma sugestão de um conflito entre estas duas personagens, contudo este não é palpável. Graham Hurley não desenvolve esta relação, pelo contrário, transmite-nos apenas uma vaga ideia que não tem força suficiente para ganhar contornos na mente do leitor. Na minha opinião este é um dos aspectos negativos da obra.
Outra característica que se destacou pela negativa foi a pouca importância conferida à história de vida, personalidade e pensamentos das personagens secundárias. Este facto contribuiu para um maior distanciamento entre mim e a narrativa. A empatia que senti pelo Joe Faraday é forçada, uma vez que esta foi a única personagem que me foi dada a conhecer verdadeiramente. Como apenas conheci as outras personagens de uma forma vaga e superficial não consegui estabelecer nenhum tipo de relação ou formar uma opinião sobre o seu carácter e papel no enredo. Além de tudo isto, em determinadas situações foi-me difícil associar os nomes às personagens.
As aves e navegação são os dois temas abordados pelo autor ao longo deste livro. Graham Hurley faz várias referências a ambos, aponta detalhes específicos e fornece algumas descrições breves, sem explorar exaustivamente as temáticas, evitando, desta forma, aborrecer o leitor menos interessado nestes assuntos. Como nenhum dos temas desperta verdadeiramente a minha atenção, o livro tornou-se, de uma forma gradual, de dificil leitura. A minha capacidade de concentração diminuía a cada página que lia em direcção ao final.
A prostituição e a droga são dois temas que me fascinam imenso e que nunca me canso de ver retratados. Infelizmente, Graham Hurley apenas os aborda superficialmente, atribuindo-lhes a função de embelezamento do ambiente envolvente.
A evolução da investigação policial e a revelação dos acontecimentos que tiveram origem no desaparecimento de Stuart Maloney não foram de encontro às minhas expectativas. A minha surpresa inicial pela qualidade de escrita foi substituída pela desilusão causada por a leitura de um livro que não se destaca, nem pela negativa, nem pela positiva.
Quanto ao desfecho, pode ser descrito da mesma forma que todo o enredo: sem surpresas e sem emoções. É ainda de salientar o facto de algumas tramas secundárias serem deixadas por resolver.
November 8, 2017
Not a bad mystery, although the pace needs to pick up a bit. It is the ensemble cast leading me to the second book in this series and we'll see where it goes from there. The author does women well as they actually seem to be people with a mixed bag of characteristics and are not sidelined as accessories as is so often the case in this genre.
February 1, 2016
I enjoyed it, but if I have to read one more detailed description of Portsmouth/Paulsgrove one more time... The book felt like a walking advertisement to avoid Portsmouth, instead of just focusing on the story.
July 18, 2011
#1 DI Joe Faraday series set in Portsmouth, UK. This book introduces Faraday, a long-time widower about to become an empty-nester as his 22-year-old son JJ, who is deaf, goes off to France to visit a girl. Joe tends to be one of those cops who follows his gut instincts rather than 'just the facts, ma'am' and this often gets him in trouble with his superiors.
A kind, sensitive soul who is an avid birdwatcher, Faraday chases vague clues about a man who is missing, reported so by his eight-year-old daughter, and believes him dead, but he's having a hard time convincing his boss to put serious effort into the investigation, which centers around the Fastnet yacht races. Meanwhile, there's also an ongoing drugs investigation, the owner of a high-end mall complex screaming bloody murder about vandalism done to luxury autos in their parking garage.
Faraday himself is a well-fleshed, likable character, but the rest of his team were, to me, kind of cliched and not terribly interesting. I liked the author's writing style and the real sense of place with the beaches and shores around Portsmouth and environs, although the mystery wasn't terribly hard to figure out. A very enjoyable first entry in series.
A kind, sensitive soul who is an avid birdwatcher, Faraday chases vague clues about a man who is missing, reported so by his eight-year-old daughter, and believes him dead, but he's having a hard time convincing his boss to put serious effort into the investigation, which centers around the Fastnet yacht races. Meanwhile, there's also an ongoing drugs investigation, the owner of a high-end mall complex screaming bloody murder about vandalism done to luxury autos in their parking garage.
Faraday himself is a well-fleshed, likable character, but the rest of his team were, to me, kind of cliched and not terribly interesting. I liked the author's writing style and the real sense of place with the beaches and shores around Portsmouth and environs, although the mystery wasn't terribly hard to figure out. A very enjoyable first entry in series.
August 14, 2007
TURNSTONE (Police Procedural-U.K.-Cont) – G
Hurley, Graham, 1st of series
Orion, 2000- UK Hardcover
Joe Faraday is a Detective Inspector in Portsmouth, a town beset with violence, drugs and an police force that’s understaffed and whose officers have problems of their own. Young Emma Maloney’s father has disappeared but she’s having a hard time getting anyone to take notice. However, when a boat off on it’s own during a sailing race capsizes, several men are lost at sea and Maloney was to have been one of the crew, Faraday begins asking questions about what really happened.
*** Hurley’s portrayal of the police--their strengths, weaknesses, personal problems, those who are ethical and those who are less than—felt very true. That, to me, was the strength of the book. The plot itself seemed a bit convoluted. The one element that really bothered me was that, in the prelude, Emma is the one who starts the entire story, yet she is mentioned only briefly in the rest of the story. It is the first book in a series, and felt to be a first book. I’d be interested to read a later book in the series, but don’t know that I’d seek them out.
Hurley, Graham, 1st of series
Orion, 2000- UK Hardcover
Joe Faraday is a Detective Inspector in Portsmouth, a town beset with violence, drugs and an police force that’s understaffed and whose officers have problems of their own. Young Emma Maloney’s father has disappeared but she’s having a hard time getting anyone to take notice. However, when a boat off on it’s own during a sailing race capsizes, several men are lost at sea and Maloney was to have been one of the crew, Faraday begins asking questions about what really happened.
*** Hurley’s portrayal of the police--their strengths, weaknesses, personal problems, those who are ethical and those who are less than—felt very true. That, to me, was the strength of the book. The plot itself seemed a bit convoluted. The one element that really bothered me was that, in the prelude, Emma is the one who starts the entire story, yet she is mentioned only briefly in the rest of the story. It is the first book in a series, and felt to be a first book. I’d be interested to read a later book in the series, but don’t know that I’d seek them out.
July 5, 2016
I have read and enjoyed other Graham Hurley books, but found this one a bit of a plod, albeit with some interesting bits. I have some more to read so I will stick with him, but this would not have made me follow him.
June 8, 2018
Didn't really connect with this one. Slow beginning.
March 17, 2020
It took me a long while to finish this, so that may have an effect on my opinion. Faraday is likeable as a character, and the plot line was decent, if not a little drawn out.
April 1, 2020
The only way for me to describe this book is that it has too much clutter. I didn't connect with the characters and it was too many, too soon.
February 7, 2018
(Fiction, Police Procedural, Series)
This turned up in my library queue because it fulfilled a reading challenge that unfortunately, ran out the previous month. Still, it looked interesting enough to try.
“Turnstone is the 1st of Graham Hurley’s Portsmouth based Faraday and Winter novels. Portsmouth is a city on the ropes, a poor, dirty but spirited city, with a soaring crime rate. And it is home for DI Joe Faraday.” (Amazon)
Faraday is a crusty old coot but when eight-year-old Emma Maloney gathers the coins out of her bank, gets on a bus by herself, and walks into the Kingston Crescent Police Station hoping just maybe the police could find her dad, just like they’d found her bike that time, he sees a case worth taking.
Despite the ever-growing caseload of a city torn by violence, poverty, drug-dealing and petty crime, Faraday spares time and resources for an investigation unsupported by hard evidence and works loosely with Paul Winter, another member of the CID force, whose ambition and methods Faraday dislikes and distrusts, but who gets results.
The characters are well-drawn and not at all one-dimensional, and the plot stands up.
4 stars
This turned up in my library queue because it fulfilled a reading challenge that unfortunately, ran out the previous month. Still, it looked interesting enough to try.
“Turnstone is the 1st of Graham Hurley’s Portsmouth based Faraday and Winter novels. Portsmouth is a city on the ropes, a poor, dirty but spirited city, with a soaring crime rate. And it is home for DI Joe Faraday.” (Amazon)
Faraday is a crusty old coot but when eight-year-old Emma Maloney gathers the coins out of her bank, gets on a bus by herself, and walks into the Kingston Crescent Police Station hoping just maybe the police could find her dad, just like they’d found her bike that time, he sees a case worth taking.
Despite the ever-growing caseload of a city torn by violence, poverty, drug-dealing and petty crime, Faraday spares time and resources for an investigation unsupported by hard evidence and works loosely with Paul Winter, another member of the CID force, whose ambition and methods Faraday dislikes and distrusts, but who gets results.
The characters are well-drawn and not at all one-dimensional, and the plot stands up.
4 stars
April 28, 2020
I am a massive Graham Hurley fan but I have read most of his later books in the Faraday, Suttle, Winter crime series. I was really interested to go back to where he began and see what his style was like. Like other reviews I've read, I think all the elements were there in his early books but his writing was more long winded and a bit too detailed. I think this was because he was getting to know his characters and experimenting with the setting. In some sections, the reflection on his deaf son and birdwatching went on a bit long. That said, this book was still enjoyable to read and had a good strong storyline as a crime novel. I think Graham Hurley also did a beautiful job in creating the character of Faraday who I have followed right through the series to his ultimate sad demise! My plan is to read through the early books in the series and catch up to where I came in. These are some of favourite books. On to book 2 in the series!
January 13, 2024
Excellent. Not the trendy cop/detective story that seems to be the norm. No detective trying to track down the psycho killer before he claims his next victim. No drunken detective bending the rules to take down the killer. No divorced detective attractive to all sorts of women.
Faraday is a widowed man with a young adult son, an only child. His wife died before having more children. He is not a fan of a fellow detective who does bend some rules and is a bit unscrupulous but admits to himself the fellow does get results.
Faraday is a widowed man with a young adult son, an only child. His wife died before having more children. He is not a fan of a fellow detective who does bend some rules and is a bit unscrupulous but admits to himself the fellow does get results.
January 30, 2024
Not bad books actually. I've read far worse.
But I mark him down for sheer laziness.
A simple google would have given him either taonga for Treasure or puiaki for valued or prized.
Not as he wrote"Kaburangi", "It's a maori word, meaning something you really treasure" she said.
Wow, no it isn't. No such word. No such thing as kabu and rangi on it's own means heaven.
Perhaps he meant Kahurangi? Kahurangi means 'treasured possession', and is a name of a National Park here in New Zealand.
It can also mean dark blue.
But I mark him down for sheer laziness.
A simple google would have given him either taonga for Treasure or puiaki for valued or prized.
Not as he wrote"Kaburangi", "It's a maori word, meaning something you really treasure" she said.
Wow, no it isn't. No such word. No such thing as kabu and rangi on it's own means heaven.
Perhaps he meant Kahurangi? Kahurangi means 'treasured possession', and is a name of a National Park here in New Zealand.
It can also mean dark blue.
May 19, 2020
Intriguing, several times I couldn't tell whether I could get on with the Faraday character, not sure I liked the secondary character 'winters but I persevered and I can say I enjoyed the book, the pace slower than some crime stories and I am sure that is the same in real life. I believe I owe it to the characters and the author to read the next in the series. That is also a good indication of the books worth, that I want to read the next one
May 10, 2022
Like all police stories our detective,Faraday has a few things in his history to make him seem interesting: his wife died at an early age, his son is leaving home and is deaf and he is a very dedicated bird watcher. In spite of all this I didn’t find him particularly interesting. Winter his best interrogator didn’t seem to come to life on the page either. The murder that happens in the first pages of the book is not the one that he spends all his time solving.
August 16, 2019
It took a while to warm to this book. it has several story lines happening at the same time. The setting in Portsmouth with the Fastnet race as part of the action. The main characters are quite a contrast with a wide boy detective who uses interesting methods of policing and a very intelligent and almost plodding DI who chases down clues, interviews people and thinks. A good read.
January 4, 2017
Excellent
Nice read. A few interventions by the spellchecker need attention but otherwise well-written.
Love the local references. Good story. Nice balance between personal and professional lives of police characters.
Will read the others in the series.
Nice read. A few interventions by the spellchecker need attention but otherwise well-written.
Love the local references. Good story. Nice balance between personal and professional lives of police characters.
Will read the others in the series.
May 14, 2017
I really wanted to like this book and on the whole the story was a good one. However, I know the Portsmouth area well and am disappointed in the way it is portrayed in the novel. It hasn't done anything for its tourism industry!
June 15, 2018
An average read but a gentle introduction into the characters Hurley makes you grow to love. There is a gruesome edge to the story but at the same time it's both cleverly written so you are unable to predict too much and just enough detail that it's not too gruesome to read.
June 22, 2019
Nao e um tipico policial em que se mantem o leitor a tentar identificar o culpado ate ao fim. E um livro muito realista que retrata mais as dificuldades da policia em dar resposta ao crime de uma cidade do que propriamente uma investigacao elaborada. Ainda assim agradavel de ler.
June 11, 2022
A great British detective story
The hero was relentless in his pursuit for the truth. Good police procedures with the sub-plots of many personalities, not least of all, that of a police father and his slightly disadvantaged son
The hero was relentless in his pursuit for the truth. Good police procedures with the sub-plots of many personalities, not least of all, that of a police father and his slightly disadvantaged son
December 3, 2017
well done who-done-it.
January 26, 2019
Una sceneggiatura.Il primo di una serie, per cui: sbrodolata per caratterizzare i personaggi. Indagine poliziesca strascicata. Mi basta il primo.
June 25, 2019
A decent enough procedural; not especially original but a satisfying plot with interesting details.
December 18, 2019
Good quality police procedural set in Hampshire with well plotted story and developed characters. I have read more by this author
November 12, 2020
2.5 actually
November 22, 2020
this started me on my Faraday journey
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