Synopses & Reviews
A 20yearold crime throws DI Joe Faraday into the violent legacy of the Falklands War Freshly promoted to the elite Major Crimes Team, DI Joe Faraday is thrown into the deep end with the investigation into the murder of prison officer Paul Coughlin. Was the violent Coughlin killed by a recently released con he brutalized in prison? Or is his death a legacy of a wider, more savage violence from 20 years before? Coughlin was an expetty officer in the Royal Navy. If Faraday is to solve the murder, he must first penetrate the wall of silence thrown up by the Navy. But as he digs deeper, he uncovers a disturbing connection to a crime that has waited 20 years to be avenged.
Review
"This is how a crime novel should be written, and it pushes Hurley right to the forefront of British crime writers, which is where he richly deserves to be" Independent on Sunday
Synopsis
Newly appointed to the Major Crimes Team, DI Joe Faraday investigates the brutal murder of a local prison officer, Sean Coughlinand begins to build a disturbing picture of the dead mans life. With few friends and many enemies, Coughlin appears to have been a murder waiting to happen. Was the killer a recently released prisoner with a homicidal grudge? Or do the clues lead to Coughlins past? Deadlight forces Joe Faraday to step outside the investigative process and explore a wider violencenot just the darkness cast by an evil man, but the ever-deepening shadows of a half-forgotten war.
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.