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The Order of Things by Graham Hurley

By DavidPrestidge

17 November, 2015

Here’s a book that will quickly grab your attention, and possibly that of any recently consumed meals as well. The story begins when a doctor is found disembowelled in a Devon cottage bedroom which resembles a charnel house. Amid the viscera, the police discover a…

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Rainbow crime

By DavidPrestidge

12 November, 2015

On the Radar — This week we bring you two novels with main characters from the LGBT community, along with a spectrum of other interesting concepts and crimes. Another old Gore Vidal pulp novel has been unearthed, we’ve a mystery involving a ghost, an art…

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A gazetteer of British crime: The South West

By DavidPrestidge

30 September, 2015

So far, our gazetteer of British crime has covered Scotland and East Anglia, where we’ve met interesting authors and seen – a little bit at least – how the landforms, history and local culture have influenced them. In our third instalment, we head to another…

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Sins of the Father by Graham Hurley

By DavidPrestidge

2 December, 2014

In England’s West Country, DS Jimmy Suttle is called in to investigate the brutal murder of Rupert Moncrieff, a wealthy octagenarian living out his days in a house called Magharibi. Moncrieff was an ‘old Africa hand’, and among the tribal masks and mementos of his…

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The Brits are coming

By DavidPrestidge

20 November, 2014

On the Radar — We have an exclusively British line-up this week, with one of our featured authors being born in Scotland, and another in Wales, while the rest are English. With the honourable exception of Kaye Furnivall’s book set in Italy, all the other…

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Touching Distance by Graham Hurley

By DavidPrestidge

14 November, 2013

For years DS Jimmy Suttle made cameo appearances alongside his former boss, Joe Faraday, mixing it with ruthless Portsmouth gangsters like Bazza McKenzie. But the enigmatic Faraday died by his own hand, and McKenzie perished in a hail of police bullets. Suttle has given up…

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Jockeying for a bestseller

By DavidPrestidge

31 October, 2013

On the Radar — If books were racehorses, who would you bet on? Today we bring you champion jockey AP McCoy’s crime writing debut, but it’s up against a whole stable of thoroughbreds. Patricia Cornwell, Michael Connolly, Graham Hurley and more. In fact, I don’t…

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Western Approaches by Graham Hurley

By DavidPrestidge

19 December, 2012

After a string of bestselling books featuring the idiosyncratic Portsmouth policeman Joe Faraday, Graham Hurley made the brave decision to kill him off. In the next book, Happy Days, Faraday’s shadow loomed large as Hampshire Police played out a fatal endgame with the violent Pompey…

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The Order of Things by Graham Hurley

Rainbow crime

A gazetteer of British crime: The South West

Sins of the Father by Graham Hurley

The Brits are coming

Touching Distance by Graham Hurley

Jockeying for a bestseller

Western Approaches by Graham Hurley

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