Die kleine Emma meldet ihren Vater als vermisst. Auch wenn zunächst nichts für einen Mord spricht, ist Inspektor Faraday von der Polizei Portsmouth davon überzeugt, dass dem Mann etwas Schreckliches zugestoßen ist. Als Faraday erfährt, dass der Vermisste an der berühmten Fastnet-Regatta hätte teilnehmen sollen, erhärtet sich sein Verdacht. Ausgerechnet auf dem Schiff, auf dem Emmas Vater mitgesegelt wäre, gehen drei Mann über Bord. Faraday ist skeptisch und will der Sache nachgehen, sein Vorgesetzter gibt ihm eine Woche ...
G.I. Joe: Faraday Reihe
Diese Serie begleitet einen erfahrenen Detective, der sich mit anspruchsvollen Fällen und persönlichen Tragödien auseinandersetzt. Gehemmt durch Bürokratie und begrenzte Ressourcen versucht er, seinen anspruchsvollen Beruf mit seinem Privatleben in Einklang zu bringen. Die Leser erleben seine unermüdliche Jagd nach Gerechtigkeit inmitten der Schwierigkeiten eines rauen Polizeiumfelds. Es ist eine fesselnde Erkundung von Widerstandsfähigkeit angesichts von Widrigkeiten.
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Ein regnerischer Sommertag in Portsmouth. In einem Hotelzimmer findet die Polizei Blutspuren - der Bewohner, ein berühmter Gynäkologe, wird vermisst. Von dem Mann fehlt jede Spur. Als DC Winter herausfindet, dass er seinem Ruf als Arzt alles andere als Ehre gemacht hat, beginnt eine atemlose Jagd nach dem Verschwundenen - oder seiner Leiche. Hat sich womöglich eine seiner Patientinnen an dem skrupellosen Arzt gerächt?
Joe Faraday: Angels Passing
- 424 Seiten
- 15 Lesestunden
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.
DI Joe Faraday: Deadlight
- 432 Seiten
- 16 Lesestunden
Newly appointed to the Major Crimes Team, DI Joe Faraday investigates the brutal murder of a local prison officer, Sean Coughlin—and begins to build a disturbing picture of the dead man’s 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 Coughlin’s past? Deadlight forces Joe Faraday to step outside the investigative process and explore a wider violence—not just the darkness cast by an evil man, but the ever-deepening shadows of a half-forgotten war.
Cut to Black
- 480 Seiten
- 17 Lesestunden
Portsmouth's major drug dealer's time is up. For years Bazza Mackenzie has made millions selling cocaine and heroin into the streets of Portsmouth. He's laundered the money and on the surface at least is one of Hampshire's great and the good. The police have had enough and a year long undercover operation is set up to trap Mackenzie. But when one of the investigation's leading lights is run over and put in hospital Joe Faraday is drafted in to wrap things up. It should be a dream job but Joe fears someone will move in to fill the vacuum when Bazza is gone. Bazza seems to be one step ahead of the investigation at every turn in any case. And then Faraday's son J-J is arrested. He faces a manslaughter charge for supplying drugs to an addict who has subsequently overdosed...
Blood and Honey
- 320 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
The discovery of a headless corpse on the rocks below the cliffs on the Isle of Wight is only the beginning of a journey for DI Joe Faraday. It's a journey which takes him right to the heart of the grim trade in human cargo from the crippled societies of the Balkans. From cheap labour to prostitution, Portsmouth, like every other city in the UK is home to untold human misery; a black economy built on illegal immigration. Joe Faraday is determined to find the real criminals that lie behind the tabloid hysteria. DC Paul Winter on the other hand is determined only to find a way out of the disciplinary action that threatens his entire career. A burgeoning relationship with a young prostitute isn't exactly helping his cause. And for Winter, it's beginning to look as if time is running out ...
One Under
- 496 Seiten
- 18 Lesestunden
Two crimes, two tangles of emotions and thwarted love...From the author of BEYOND REACH.
The Price of Darkness
- 496 Seiten
- 18 Lesestunden
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.
No Lovelier Death
- 416 Seiten
- 15 Lesestunden
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?
Beyond Reach
- 336 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
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.
Borrowed Light
- 368 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
Four charred bodies. One killer. A race against time...
The 12th and final Faraday and Winter novel brings the series to a devastating and exciting close.
