The Price of Darkness (DI Joe Faraday) [Paperback]

Graham Hurley (Author)

Book Description

Series: DI Joe Faraday | Publication Date: September 16, 2010

As Faraday sifts through the evidence of two murder cases, he stumbles on evidence whose implications could alter the lives of those involved, especially Paul Winter

 

Detective Winter, fired from the police, has joined the city's premier drug baron, Bazza Mackenzie. Adrift in a world of easy money and brutally hard-won respect, Winter appears to be in his element. Meanwhile, detective Faraday is deeply involved in two high-profile murders, but when one enquiry is taken out of his hands, he begins to uncover a web of evidence with profound implications for both investigations and for the disgraced Paul Winter. The relationship between the two men has never been easy but now might be the time to bury their differences.

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"Britain's finest and hardest-hitting series of police procedural novels. . . . Readers who enjoy convincing, well-crafted thrillers won't go wrong with this one."  —Guardian

About the Author

Graham Hurley is an award-winning TV documentary maker who now writes full time. His sixth Faraday and Winter novel, Blood and Honey, was short-listed for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 496 pages
• Publisher: Orion Publishing (September 16, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1409120090
• ISBN-13: 978-1409120094
• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.2 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,037,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Price of Darkness a bit inflated?, October 26, 2008

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ausGeoff "AussieSkeptic" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Price of Darkness (DI Joe Faraday) (Hardcover)

After looking forward to another Joe Faraday storyThe Price of Darkness, I was rather disappointed by this latest offering from Graham Hurley. The characters as usual, are well drawn and speak with voices true to their setting. Faraday is also true to form -- concerned, sensitive and sensible, empathetic with the victims, but also vaguely vulnerable and naive at times. The police's, and Pompey's, nemesis Bazza McKenzie is firing on all cylinders, but still manages to draw the reader into a love-hate relationship.

A couple of issues though. How is it that the police, with all their resources, and through so many stories, have failed to nail McKenzie after all these years? And what of the subplot involving Faraday's deaf son J-J and his over-the-top real estate purchase: why was it included?

This storyline was almost a bit too clever in its construction. The various "subplots" were too distracting -- but at the same time not adequately fleshed out. Things moved along at a fairly brisk pace, but then some relatively inconsequential bits and pieces subtly broke its pacing. I found myself sometimes reading a chapter and then saying, "oh yeah, I'd forgotten about him,or that, or whatever", which shouldn't really happen in a good, evenly-paced storyline.

Even the jet-ski tournament sort of fizzled out as an idea (in the author's plan of things) without a particularly concrete solution. And Paul winter: good-guy or good-guy turned bad? It was left hanging at the end. And when Winter admitted to Bazza that his new marketing agent was an undercover cop, surely Bazza would've had her killed. Or, alternatively, Winter wouldn't have given her game away. Didn't really gel at all.

So... basically just an okay read, but I'm thinking I won't be looking for any more Graham Hurley/Joe Faraday books in the near future. 6/10