Synopses & Reviews
A missing doctor with a long list of aggrieved patients leads to a complicated case for DI Faraday DI Joe Faraday's management assistant, Vanessa Parry, is dead. Her funeral is a bitter end to another grim week in the front line of the ongoing war against Portsmouth's surging crime wave. And now the seemingly untouchable DC Paul Winter, master of the scam, has been hurt in a way he could never have imagined: his wife has cancer. It's inoperable and she has barely three months to live. Paul Winter has only one instinctto lash out. But there's precious little time for grief on a Portsmouth CID squad. A disgraced gynecologist is missing and his caseload of maimed women is a murder-suspect list from hell. It all adds up to an impossible workloadand that's without the suits and the politicians conspiring to make it even harder.
Synopsis
For DI Joe Faraday, the funeral of a young colleague, killed in a head-on car crash, is a bitter end to another grim week. And now the seemingly untouchable Detective Paul Winter, master of the scam, has been hurt in a way he could never have imagined. But theres no time for grief in a CID squad. A disgraced gynecologist is missing, and his caseload of maimed women is a murder-suspect list from hell. Its an impossible workload, and if that wasnt enough, the politicians and the suits are about to make Faradays life even harder.
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.