Western Approaches - Hardcover

Graham Hurley

3.77

333 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1409131521 ISBN 13: 9781409131526

Publisher: Orion, 2012

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D/S Jimmy Suttle has finally tired of the relentless struggle against the rising tide of urban crime in Portsmouth. Surely a job in Major Crimes in the West Country will offer some respite? He finds a remote cottage nestled in a fold of Dartmoor and, with his wife and two-year-old daughter, heads West for what he is sure will be a saner existence. How wrong could he be?Soon he is investigating the murder of a long-distance rower in the small town of Exmouth. The man rowed in the same 5-man boat as a man who, two years before, dodged a murder charge when his wife went missing during a cross atlantic rowing challange. There had been tensions between the two. Has a killer killed again?As the job takes over, Lizzie, Suttle's wife, is increasingly unhappy about the move. Trying to juggle family life with her own new job on a local paper, isolated in a lonely cottage with a demanding toddler and struggling to make new friends, Lizzie thought the whole point of the move was that she and Suttle could at least see more of each other.As his marriage frays at the edges and his first investigation becomes mired Suttle begins to feel the hills around their cottage crowding in, the wind over the moors above ever chillier, the waters ever greyer. He really has reached land's end...

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About the Author:

Graham Hurley's experience as an award-winning TV documentary-maker hallmarks his realistic and gripping take on the police procedural. He lives in Devon, where this new series is partially set. www.grahamhurley.co.uk

Review:

Skillfully combining murder mystery and police procedural drama with a West Country travelogue, this is a satisfying read. * SUNDAY MIRROR * Graham Hurley's determination to look the seamy reality full in the face is refreshing because so rare...Hurley's devastating account of Suttle's marriage is one of the best things he has done. -- Jake Kerridge * DAILY TELEGRAPH * This is another cracker from Graham Hurley...This is a very good opportunity to climb aboard and savour this writer's very addictive series. Brilliant. * CRIMESQUAD * Hurley is a giant of British police procedural novels, and with Western Approaches we find an author on top of his game. As good as, if not better than Peter James and Ian Rankin. -- Mark Timlin * CRIME TIME *

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