Graham Hurley Books In Order – Complete List

Known as one of Britain’s finest police procedural writers, Graham Hurley is the British author of the popular DI Joe Faraday crime mystery series, the Jimmy Suttle series, the Spoils of War books, the Enora Andresson series, and the numerous standalone novels he wrote over the years

Here are the Graham Hurley books in order for all his works.

Latest Graham Hurley Books

Joe Faraday Books In Publication Order

1. Turnstone, 2000
2. The Take, 2001
3. Angels Passing, 2002
4. Deadlight, 2003
5. Cut to Black, 2004
6. Blood and Honey, 2006
7. One Under, 2006
8. The Price of Darkness, 2008
9. No Lovelier Death, 2009
10. Beyond Reach, 2010
11. Borrowed Light, 2010
12. Happy Days, 2012

Joe Faraday Short Story Collections

• Back Story, 2012

Jimmy Suttle Books In Publication Order

1. Western Approaches, 2012
2. ouching Distance, 2013
3. Sins of the Father, 2014
4. The Order of Things, 2015

Spoils of War Books In Publication Order

1. Finisterre, 2016
2. Aurore, 2017
3. Estocada, 2018
4. Raid 42, 2019
5. Last Flight to Stalingrad, 2021
6. Kyiv, 2021
7. Katastrophe, 2022
8. The Blood of Others, 2023
9. Dead Ground, 2024

Enora Andresson Books In Publication Order

1. Curtain Call, 2019
2. Sight Unseen, 2019
3. Off Script, 2020
4. Limelight, 2020
5. Intermission, 2021
6. Lights Down, 2022

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

• Rules of Engagement, 1990
• Reaper, 1992
• The Devil’s Breath, 1993
• Thunder in the Blood, 1994
• Thunder in the Blood, 1995
• The Perfect Soldier, 1996
• Heaven’s Light, 1997
• Nocturne, 1998
• Permissible Limits, 1999
• The Chop, 1998
• The Ghosts of 2012, 2009

Novellas and Short Stories

• Strictly No Flowers, 2012

Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

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

Graham Hurley Biography

Born in 1946 in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, Graham Hurley had a typical childhood filled with football, swimming, reading, and watching war movies.

He won a scholarship to a boarding school in London, after which he enrolled at Cambridge University earning his BA and MA in English. He started writing during that time to become a full-time writer. After publishing houses rejected his first five manuscripts, Graham Hurley took on several jobs, including becoming a promotion script-writer with Southern Television, and then a researcher and director.

Graham Hurley spent his next 20 years in television working on ITV documentaries, including filming seabed wrecks of the Titanic and the Bismarck, many endeavors which won him several awards. However, none of them gave him the fulfillment that the realization of his lifelong dream of becoming a full-time author would give him.

He left ITV in the 1990s and decided that he’d better go full steam after his dream of writing books for a living.

His first book, Rules Of Engagement was published in 1990 while he was still with ITV. Soon after he wrote and released several other novels including Reaper and The Devil’s Breath. His latest book, The Order Of Things is book #5 in his Jimmy Suttle series, published in 2015.

Initially, Graham Hurley wrote 9 international thrillers published by Pan MacMillan. Then Graham Hurley’s foray into crime fiction started with an initial 3-book contract with his publisher, Orion, in a genre that he didn’t really have any interest in, which I found quite strange, because most authors write in the genres they are passionate about. For him, it was all about the publisher’s commercial intent. To fulfill this agreement, he drew on his two decades of experience with making documentaries. This involved not only understanding the lives of people but also winning their trust.

While doing research for his books, he realized that the drama involved in the crime fiction genre often lies in people’s everyday experiences. Thus, just like a real private detective, he sat in a crime investigation department (CID) in Portsmouth for several weeks, gaining insights into the complex realities real-life detectives face every day.

While initially the police met him with skepticism, eventually Graham Hurley earned their trust after he published Turnstone, the first Joe Faraday novel, a story that rather accurately portrayed the actual police world.

During the time he lived in Spain and France, he wrote Finisterre, which would become the first in the WWII historical thriller series The Spoils of War published by Zeus.

The author’s latest series, Enora Anressen, is a contemporary thriller series written in the first person, published by Severn House. It features Enora, a 39-year-old Anglo-Breton actress who was once married to a Scandinavian film director.

Graham Hurley Book Adaptations

The Joe Faraday series was adapted in 2011 by Gétévé and France Télévisions through 90-minute television films under the title Deux Flics sur les Docks (Two Cops on the Docks). Joe Faraday was played by Jean-Marc Barr and Paul Winter by Bruno Solo. Between 2011 and 2013 6 novels were adapted, namely Angels Passing, Cut To Black, One Under, Blood and Honey, Deadlight, and The Take.

Graham Hurley Awards and Nominations

Blood and Honey was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year in 2007

One Under was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year in 2008

One Under was nominated for the Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel in 2008

Finisterre was short-listed for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize in 2016