Graham Hurley Books in Order - Series Guide

Graham Hurley is an English crime and thriller author best known for the Faraday and Winter series set in Portsmouth that was praised by the Daily Telegraph as the best police procedurals being written at the time. He has since written other series as well beyond Portsmouth, and several standalone thrillers.

For two decades, before writing, he made award-winning ITV documentaries, including filming the seabed wrecks of the Titanic and Bismarck. That documentary instinct for getting things right was a major influence on his later books.

This page lists all Graham Hurley books in order, including the Faraday and Winter series, the Jimmy Suttle series, the Spoils of War historical series, the Enora Andresson series, his standalone novels, and his non-fiction books.

Reading order last verified: July 2026

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Where to Start with Graham Hurley

→ New to Graham Hurley? Start with Turnstone (Faraday and Winter #1) if you want the Portsmouth police procedurals that made his first popular.
→ Want the connected crime-fiction series? Read the Faraday and Winter series first, then the Jimmy Suttle books. Suttle comes out of the Portsmouth books before moving into his own Devon-set series.
→ Prefer World War II historical thrillers? Start with Finisterre (Spoils of War #1). The Spoils of War books are linked by returning characters and wartime history, but they are not strictly speaking sequels.
→ Prefer contemporary suspense? Try Curtain Call (Enora Andresson #1), which begins the London-set series about an actress forced into crime by her personal struggles.

How the Graham Hurley Series Connect

The Faraday and Winter books and the Jimmy Suttle books are the two connected series. Jimmy Suttle leaves the Faraday and Winter series, then moves to Devon for his own four-book series after the Portsmouth series ends. Reading Faraday and Winter first gives a useful background, especially related to the police culture and the characters Suttle leaves behind when he exits, but the Suttle cases can still be followed on their own.

Faraday and Winter Series (Books in Order)

The Faraday and Winter series follows Portsmouth DI Joe Faraday, a detective and keen birdwatcher, and DC Paul Winter, his non-traditional and reckless colleague, as they work murder cases and major crimes in the port city, which the author knew quite well after living there for years and spending time with Portsmouth CID before writing the books.

The growing tension between Faraday’s honest and fair approach as a principled detective, and Winter’s willingness to cut corners becomes more visible over time. Paul Winter’s story becomes more important toward the middle of the series when he starts working for local crime boss Bazza Mackenzie. The French television adaptation, Deux flics sur les docks, changed the setting to Le Havre but kept the main contrast in the character personalities and the main source of conflict between the two policemen.

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Other Faraday and Winter Books

Back Story, 2012

Jimmy Suttle Series (Books in Order)

The Jimmy Suttle spin-off series follows DS Jimmy Suttle, a former detective from the Faraday and Winter books, who has moved to Devon and is working major crime investigations in the West Country. The books move away from Portsmouth’s port-city politics into a rural setting on the coast of Devon, but they keep the focus on how people on the force are dealing with their personal lives as their work pressure takes over. Although it is a spin-off from the Faraday and Winter series, it has separate cases, and the books can be read without having read the main series before.

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Spoils of War Series (Books in Order)

The Spoils of War series is set during World War II, and it follows several recurring characters, including German journalist Werner Nehmann and RAF wireless operator Billy Angel. The books move through important moments of the conflict, from the Spanish Civil War to the final months of the war in Europe, but they are connected by returning characters and the same history. The books can be read in any order, since they are not strict sequels.

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Enora Andresson Series (Books in Order)

The Enora Andresson series follows 39-year-old Anglo-Breton actress Enora Andresson, who is living in London after being diagnosed with a brain tumor, as her public life and private relationships push her into criminal situations. These books are written in first person, which makes them feel very different from the Faraday and Winter police procedural novels, with less workplace rules, more immediate pressure from Enora’s own illness, career, and personal choices.

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Standalone Novels

Novellas and Short Stories

Non-Fiction Books

Lucky Break?, 1983
Airshow: A Year in the Life of the World’s Largest Military Airshow, 1998
Estuary, 2012

Graham Hurley Biography

Graham Hurley is an English crime and thriller author whose work includes the Faraday and Winter, Jimmy Suttle, Spoils of War, and Enora Andresson series, and several standalone thrillers and non-fiction books.
Official website: grahamhurley.co.uk

Born on 1 November 1946 in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, Graham Hurley won a scholarship to a London boarding school and he enrolled at Cambridge University, where he received his BA and MA in English. He began his career as a scriptwriter with Southern Television before switching to producing documentaries, where he worked for two decades directing and producing for ITV.

He filmed the discovery of the seabed wrecks of the Titanic and the Bismarck with oceanographer Robert Ballard, and reported on Richard Branson’s transatlantic balloon attempt, for which he received several awards.

His first novel, Rules of Engagement, was published in 1990 while he was still at ITV, but when Television South lost its regional ITV franchise in 1992, Graham Hurley went solo to become a full-time writer. He wrote eight more standalone thrillers before Orion commissioned the Joe Faraday crime series that became his most popular work.

To research the Faraday novels, he spent several weeks at the Portsmouth CID, to learn more about what real-life detectives face every day. Readers and critics praised these books for their honest and accurate portrayal of the daily police work and the city.

After the Faraday series, Graham Hurley continued with the Jimmy Suttle spin-off, followed by the Spoils of War historical thriller series. The first Spoils of War novel, Finisterre, was shortlisted for the 2017 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.

Graham Hurley now lives in East Devon and continues to write.

Graham Hurley Book Adaptations

Faraday and Winter series – adapted as the French television series Deux Flics sur les Docks (2011–2016) by Gétévé and France Télévisions.

Graham Hurley Awards and Honors

Nominations and Shortlists

Blood and Honey – Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (2007)
One Under – Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (2008)
One Under – Barry Award, Best British Crime Novel (2008)
Finisterre – Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize (2017)

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Founder of Mystery Sequels, a reference site focused on listing mystery and thriller books in the correct reading order. I maintain and update the site’s bibliographies as new titles are released, ensuring accuracy and consistency across author and series pages.

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