Angels Passing - Hardcover

Hurley, Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752831895 ISBN 13: 9780752831893

Publisher: Orion Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2002

Synopsis

ANGELS PASSING is a massive Dickensian trawl through the depths of life in Portsmouth. With a compactly labyrinthine plot, uniquely human policemen, a grotesque rogues gallery of squalid villains and a shadowy child as anti-hero it is easily the best thing he has ever written. Its 130,000 words are devoted to the events of just one week - it's a breathtaking and harrowing ride.

Focused around two investigations - the hunt for a ten year old boy who may be linked to the death of a teenage girl and a murder enquiry prompted by the discovery of the body of a small time crook on wasteland north of the city - ANGELS PASSING takes us to the core of Faraday's flawed relationships with both his girlfriend and his son, it reveals more of Winter's brutally effective take on the job and provides a grimly recognisable post mortem report on a society that is coming apart at the seams.

This is at once an unremittingly realistic fast moving crime thriller and a bleakly moving novel about the price children are paying for a society that is in freefall.

About this title

About the Author:

Graham Hurley is an award-winning TV documentary maker who now writes full time. He has lived in Portsmouth for 20 years. He is married and has grown up children.

From AudioFile:

Searching for the killer of a drug dealer, the answer to the death of a 14-year-old girl, and the solutions to their own personal problems, the police detectives in Portsmouth, England, who are featured in this Detective Inspector Joe Faraday novel are ill represented by Tim Pepper. He reads aloud to himself as if he has been banished to a closet underneath the stairs and directed to make no meaning of the words or the situations. Such a disappointment when one anticipates a worthwhile mystery. J.P. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0752831895
• ISBN 13: 9780752831893
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352