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Když dojde k brutální vraždě vězeňského dozorce Seana Coughlina, vedením vyšetřování je pověřen detektiv inspektor Joe Faraday. Faraday, nováček v portsmouthském elitním týmu pro vyšetřování závažných trestných činů, začne rekonstruovat zneklidňující obraz života oběti. Coughlin, bez přátel, zato se spoustou nepřátel, byl zřejmě ideálním kandidátem na vraždu. Byl vrahem nedávno propuštěný vězeň, na sedm let nespravedlivě uvězněný bezvýznamný zlodějíček, který musel snášet Coughlinovu šikanu? Nebo skutečný pachatel patří do dávné minulosti Coughlinova života? Jakmile začne Faraday vyslýchat dávné Coughlinovy kolegy, s nimiž zavražděný sloužil u vojenského námořnictva během války o Falklandy, znepokojeně si uvědomí, že válka poznamenala osudy námořníkůnesmazatelně, ale především tragicky. Devatenáct obětí, které si před dvaceti lety vyžádalo potopení lodi HMS Accolade, možná jen maskuje další dávnou vraždu..

Muž, připoutaný řetězy v tunelu a pak roztrhaný vlakem z Portsmouthu do Londýna, to je zatím nejnechutnější ze všech případů detektiva inspektora Joea Faradaye. Bizarní sebevražda? Zvrhle krutá vražda? Policie se snaží identifikovat tělo a při kontrole seznamu pohřešovaných osob narazí detektiv konstábl Paul Winter na muže, kterého nikdo nehledá. Nejde o muže z tunelu, prostě zmizel. Jediný člověk, který ho znal, pracuje v městské márnici. Osudy obyvatel, obětí, zločinců i policistů, ti všichni se snaží přežít v současné Británii.

Opět se setkáváme s detektivem inspektorem Faradayem, fanatickým zastáncem spravedlnosti a čestných metod boje se zločinci. V osobním životě řeší problémy s hluchým synem, jehož od narození vychovává sám. Únik před krutou realitou hledá v pozorování ptactva, což je nádherně starosvětská záliba a jedna z mála činností, která ho sbližuje i se synem, jenž se usilovně snaží osamostatnit. Druhou význačnou postavu představuje detektiv Paul Wilson, který se řídí zásadou „účel světí prostředky“ a svoje netradiční způsoby pátrání a vyšetřování raději tají před nadřízenými. Značnou roli v příběhu hraje i válka v Iráku – děj se odehrává v roce 2003 a Hurley se nijak netají tím, že se přiklání na stranu odpůrců zmíněné války. Celá kniha tím dostává i širší historický rozměr.

Objev bezhlavé mrtvoly na skále pod útesem ostrova Wight znamená teprve začátek pátrání detektiva inspektora Joea Faradaye. Pátrání ho dovede přímo do centra krutého obchodu s lidským zbožím z válkou i chudobou zdecimovaných oblastí Balkánu. Portsmouth, stejně jako všechna ostatní města v Británii, jsou místy nevyřčených lidských tragédií a utrpení, ať už jde o otrockou práci nebo nucenou prostituci. Joe Faraday je odhodlaný najít ty skutečné pachatele, kteří se skrývají za bulvárními hysterickými zprávami o zločinnosti.

Válka v Zálivu skončila. Kuvajt je osvobozen za cenu minimálních spojeneckých ztrát. Zatímco Západ oslavuje svoje vítězství, jeden muž začíná pochybovat. Jak to, že spojenecké ztráty byly tak malé? Novinář Wesley Keogh na tomto tématu pracuje deset roků. Válka v Zálivu byla možná vybojována podle scénáře předem dohodnutého mezi americkým prezidentem Georgem Busem a iráckým diktátorem Saddámem Husajnem. Nejskvělejší hodina Západu může být největším podvodem v dějinách. Keoghje smrtelně nemocný, má AIDS, a líčení, na kterém pracuje a které zasáhne srdce svobodného světa, se má stát jeho odkazem. Zpravodajské agentury na obou stranách Atlantiku bijí na poplach a začínají být nervózní. Mladá agentka britské MI5 Sarah Moretonová je vyslána, aby se s novinářem spřátelila a zjistila, co všechno ví. Vržena do světa plného chladných kalkulací, podivné loajality a fatálních tajemství, Sarah zjišťuje, že za přátelství se platí vysoká a hrozná cena. Pro ni a pro Wesleyho už nikdy nebude nic takové, jako bylo dříve…

The 12th and final Faraday and Winter novel brings the series to a devastating and exciting close.

Actress Enora Andressen is facing the perfect storm, and she needs good news. It arrives in the shape of a fascinating idea from her favourite French director, based on Flixcombe Manor's role during the Second World War. But the tonic soon turns sour when Enora is drawn into the project, with chilling consequences.

Graham Hurley's acclaimed crime series takes a step into the dark side as DC Winter wonders whether crime might pay...From the author of BEYOND REACH.

The new thriller from Graham Hurley set against the final stages of the Second World War.

The gripping new novel in Graham Hurley's critically acclaimed Spoils of War collection of thrillers set during the key events of World War II and related conflicts.

Four charred bodies. One killer. A race against time...

DS Jimmy Suttle investigates a murder in a house haunted by the past in the latest from 'one of the UK's finest crime novelists' (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY) A rich old man, Rupert Moncrieff, is beaten to death in the silence of his West Country waterside mansion, his head hooded and his throat cut. His extended family are still living beneath his roof, each with their own room, their own story, their own ghosts, and their own motives for murder. And in this world of darkness and dysfunction are the artefacts and memories of colonial atrocities that are returning to haunt them all. At the heart of the murder investigation is DS Jimmy Suttle who, along with his estranged journalist wife Lizzie, is fighting his own demons after the abduction and death of their young daughter, Grace. But who killed Rupert Moncrieff? And what secrets is the house holding onto that could unravel this whole investigation? The enquiry takes Suttle to Africa and beyond as he slowly begins to understand the damage that human beings can inflict upon one another. Not simply on the battlefield. Not simply in the torture camps in the Kenyan bush. But much, much closer to home.

A journalist at the Minisitry of Propaganda falls foul of the Nazi elite and begins a terrifying descent into the hell of Stalingrad as the Russians encircle the city.

When Hayden Prentice, father to actress Enora Andresson's son, Malo, becomes infectious with Covid-19, he insists on being treated at a rented apartment in Southsea. Hayden's plan to pay the huge sums needed for his ongoing medical care, and an enemy intent on killing him when he's at his most vulnerable, plunge Enora into danger once again.

Graham Hurley's World War II thriller charts the shadowy and often lethal pas de deux between rival Allied and German intelligence services during World War II.

In Graham Hurley's historical thriller, ex-marine Tam Moncrieff must take desperate steps if war is to be avoided.

On 2nd August 1990, Iraqi tanks rolled into Kuwait City. The invasion provoked international condemnation and the assembly of the largest task force since D-Day. Yet for two months the huge allied army did nothing. This novel looks at these months and what happened back in New York.

The government is running scared—the Sabbathman is killing the people who have gained the most from their policies. His message is You have ruined this country. None of you are safe. As the public warm to the killer, MI5 are called in to stop him.

Two murdered teenagers. Who will get to the killer first? The police, or the crimelord who owes a debt to the dead girl's father?

The fourth novel in the Jimmy Suttle series, this is the latest novel from 'one of the UK's finest crime novelists' (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

A killing without mercy. A crime with no motive. A thriller from the author of LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRADThree random killings. Or something much, much worse?DS Jimmy Suttle is trying to get his life back on track. His marriage has fallen apart and he rarely sees his young daughter, Grace. But then a murder shuts the door on the chaos of his personal life...The victim was shot through the head at the wheel of his car on a lonely moorland road. The only witness? His two-year-old son, strapped into the rear child seat. Within days, two more killings, equally professional, equally without motive.Meanwhile, Suttle's estranged wife is embarking on an investigation of her own in the world of journalism. But the story brings her to the question at the very heart of Jimmy's case - what does it take to make a man kill?

A body. A policeman. Over the edge... The launch of a stunning crime series from the author of the acclaimed Faraday and Winter novels. No one liked Jake Kinsey. A rich man, he turned up out of nowhere, acquired Exmouth's trophy penthouse flat, and then bought his way into the local rowing club. And now, after a long fall from his balcony, he's dead. DS Jimmy Suttle, a newcomer to the Devon and Cornwall force, is the one detective who suspects that Kinsey has been killed - but there is very little evidence. Left to work alone, Jimmy is all too conscious that time, the pressure of the job, and the wreckage of his private life are lengthening the odds against any kind of result. And with a wife embittered by the move to a remote country cottage, Suttle must gamble his own integrity against the mounting chaos of the lives around him.

The cost of peace is high in Graham Hurley's World War II thriller.

A thriller set against one of the most horrific scenes in the Second World War.

The new action thriller from Graham Hurley set against the Dieppe campaign of World War Two.

Enora Andressen's wayward son Malo has received a ransom demand for the return of his girlfriend. But how far can a mother trust her son? With the help of Hayden Prentice, Malo's father, Enora hunts for the truth. It takes her deep into the world of drug dealing, where the sums of money at stake are dizzying and a human life counts for nothing...

A brutal hit-and-run killing opens the path to another 25-year-old crime.A young couple are mown down in a hit-and-run incident. The girl is badly injured, the boy dies on the way to hospital. According to the sole witness the boy was in the middle of the road giving the approaching car the finger. Operation Melody is launched with DI Faraday at the helm. It reveals a mother driven to desperation by the attacks on her son—and a link to a terrible crime from the early 1980s that the victim does not want investigated. The investigation will rip apart a happy family, but the high-ups are desperate for their cold cases to be cleared up, whatever the cost. And round it all circles ex-DC Paul Winter, who has his own reasons for keeping the lid on an old crime.

A missing doctor with a long list of aggrieved patients leads to a complicated case for DI Faraday.

Operation Finisterre - a last-ditch Nazi plan to bring the allies to the negotiating table - is centre stage in Graham Hurley's blockbuster World War II thriller.

Why did fourteen-year-old Helen Bassam fall to her death from a tower block? DI Joe Faraday is on the case, but almost immediately, he’s fighting for resources. The body of a drug dealer is found hanging from a tree, and the head of the Major Crimes Squad is pulling in all the manpower he can get. Faraday plunges into Portsmouth’s bleak netherworld of wrecked families and children cast adrift. But as he tracks down a ten-year-old boy who may hold the key to Helen’s death, he’s faced with a crisis much closer to home.

Carrie Tollman awakes in the night to an intruder gazing down at her. He seems crazy. He tells her he's killed before and he'll kill again. Carrie is one of two carers looking after Enora Andressen's favorite scriptwriter. But Pavel is now paralysed, as well as blind, and it falls to Enora to track down this terrifying presence at Carrie's bedside.

Portsmouth is a city on the ropes. It has the highest volume of cases going through the Crown Courts of anywhere in England. And it is home for DI Joe Faraday.

Actress Enora Andressen is catching up with her ex-neighbour, Evelyn Warlock, who is loving her recent retirement to Budleigh Salterton . . . until the September evening when her neighbour disappears. What Enora discovers over the anguished months to come will put sleepy Budleigh Salterton on the front page of every newspaper in the land . . .

Actress Enora Andresson has a brain tumour that could kill her, she's struggling with the wreckage of her marriage and has a strained relationship with her son. When investigative journalist Mitch Culligan on her doorstep, asking for her help, she is thrown into danger... and must confront her past while facing an uncertain future.

When Ellie's husband is killed in an accident her world falls apart. Her husband's company is in debt and, in order to keep it going, she must learn to fly the World War II fighter plane it was built around. She must also find answers to the questions of what really lies behind her husband's death.