The Price of Darkness

Joe Faraday, Book 8

By: Graham Hurley

Narrated by: Tim Pepper

DC Paul Winter has gone undercover in an attempt to infiltrate the inner circle of the city's premier drug lord Bazza McKenzie. Adrift in a world of easy money and brutally hard-won respect, Winter appears to be in his element...worryingly so.

But headquarters' concerns are soon supplanted by two high-profile Portsmouth murders. In the first, a visiting property developer is shot dead. Next, a government minister is assassinated by two motorcyclists. DI Faraday is deeply involved in both enquiries and becomes slowly aware of a web of circumstantial evidence with profound implications for Paul Winter. The relationship between the two men has never been easy. But now the time has come to bury their differences.

©2008 Graham Hurley (P)2008 Isis Publishing Ltd

Critic reviews

"Hurley is one of the great talents of British police procedurals. Every book he delivers is better than the last." ( Independent on Sunday)

Fairly boring

Too long, slow, and boring unfortunately. Not up to usual standard. Narrator good but overall, delivery and story somnambulant.