Synopses & Reviews
DC Winter has gone undercover in an attempt to infiltrate the inner circle of the city's premier drug lord. Isolated from his colleagues, resenting the way his superiors have presented him the job as a fait accompli, and abroad in a world where money is easy and respect is earned in brutally straightforward ways, Winter is in his elementworryingly so. Concerns among his superiors that Winter may finally have had too much temptation put in his path are soon supplanted by two vicious murders. First a high-profile local property developer is shot, with clinical efficiency, in his own bed. A few days later a government minister is assassinated while his car is stuck in a traffic jam. A fevered investigation begins with Winter's erstwhile boss, detective inspector Faraday, in charge. With clues hard to come by, the government panicking, and the anti-terrorist branch circling, Faraday is shoved off the case and left in charge just of the investigation into the property developer's murder. Faraday is also tasked with keeping track of Winter and soon discovers that Winter, the arch-conspirator, has been set up. As Winter begins to realize what his bosses had in mind for him and Faraday begins to put together the pieces of a heartbreaking story of personal and political betrayal that may well link the two murders, The Price of Darkness becomes a study of the desperate measures some people take when their friends and their society let them down.
Review
"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
Synopsis
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.
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.