Happy Days (DI Joe Faraday 12)

Author/Guide: Graham Hurley

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2000s: The last in the Faraday, Portsmouth series

ISBN: 978-1409102366
Genre: Crime

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What you need to know before your trail

D/I Faraday is gone and the police are left reeling. As his boss attempts to limit any possible PR damage his one time shadow on the force, ex D/C Winter is ever more concerned that he may have made the biggest mistake of his life throwing in his lot with the city’s drug baron, Bazza McKenzie.

Especially as Bazza is becoming increasingly desperate and violent as his empire begins to crumble under the weight of austere times. And, in the person of D/S Jimmy Suttle there’s a new will at the heart of Portsmouth’s embattled police force to nail Bazza once and for all, the one man Faraday was always desperate to bring to justice.

Graham Hurley’s novel is about loss. It is about the decisions we make in life, about the impact our lives have on others. Hurley’s trademark authenticity has been allied to an ever increasing sense of drama as he charts the lives of his vivid characters and paints a stunning portrait of a city and a country at war with itself. A war which throws the police into the front line. Happy days?

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Portsmouth

If DC Faraday ever gets a day off, there’s plenty to do in Portsmouth that doesn’t involve fighting crime. It’s a unique city since it’s both a port city and naval base. Plenty of maritime heritage and lots of activity down at the docks….

The nice kind of activity is based on the maritime history of the city – the interactive National Museum of the Royal Navy and the wooden warship HMS Victory, where Nelson died in the Battle of Trafalgar can be seen.

Langstone Harbour

Faraday’s first floor studio looked east over the gleaming expanse of Langstone Harbour. His place is called The Bargemaster’s house. Langstone Harbor is the stretch of water to the east of the city that helped give Pompey its island status.

“Suttle was vague about the origins of the property but assumed the house was connected to the nearby lock and the canal that had once ferried barges to Portsmouth Harbour”