Beyond Reach (DI Joe Faraday) - Hardcover

Hurley, Graham

4.02

288 ratings by Goodreads

9781409101215: Beyond Reach (DI Joe Faraday)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1409101215 ISBN 13: 9781409101215

Publisher: Orion Publishing, 2010

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A young couple are mown down in a hit and run incident. The girl is badly injured, the boy dies on the way to hospital. According to the sole witness the boy was in the middle of the road giving the approaching car the finger. Operation Melody is launched with DI Faraday at the helm. It reveals a mother driven to desperation by the attacks on her son—and a link to a terrible crime from the early 1980s that the victim does not want investigated. The investigation will rip apart a happy family, but the high-ups are desperate for their cold cases to be cleared up, whatever the cost. And round it all circles ex-DC Paul Winter, who has his own reasons for keeping the lid on an old crime.

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About the Author:

Graham Hurley is an award-winning TV documentary maker who now writes full time. He lived in Portsmouth for 20 years. He is married and has grown up children. He now lives in Exmouth, Devon.

Review:

'Another excellent book by Graham Hurley... a good story, carefully plotted and with a gritty and realistic appreciation of the setting in Portsmouth.' CRIMESQUAD 'Another powerful novel... Graham Hurley does two things exceptionally well, and these plots intertwine because of those two things. One is to detail the urban blight of Portsmouth, the decay, the moral rot of crime within the city... Hurley's other skill is in understanding the internal dynamics of the police force, the way policing is sacrificed in favour of statistics.' CRIMETIME 'As the gripping plots intertwine, Hurley once again unearths, with realism, the moral rot of crime within the city, while delving into the internal dynamics of the police force. The results are simply riveting. A writer who deserves to win the Crime Novel of the Year for which he has twice been nominated!' PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH 'This is Graham Hurley on his usual fine form, combining style in slick thriller prose and pace, and substance in a story which has interesting things to say about sink estates and modern policing.' WESTERN MORNING NEWS 'Graham Hurleys position in the British crime-writing firmament is assured. His style is quietly individual, though he has admitted to being influence by John le Carre, Len Deighton, John D MacDonald, and contemporary American writers like James Lee Burke. His books shy away from over-graphic violence, but have no problem comprehensively gripping the reader.' -- GOOD BOOK GUIDE Barry Forshaw

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