Graham Hurley Books in Order - Series Guide

Graham Hurley is an English crime and thriller author best known for the Faraday and Winter series, twelve police procedurals set in Portsmouth that were praised by the Daily Telegraph as the best police procedurals being written at the time. Before writing books, he spent two decades making award-winning ITV documentaries, filming the seabed wrecks of the Titanic and Bismarck, among other projects, and that documentary instinct for getting things exactly right was reflected in his writing.

He has since written other series as well beyond Portsmouth, with the long-running Spoils of War WWII historical thriller series, the contemporary Enora Andresson series, and several standalone thrillers.

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

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Faraday and Winter Series (Books in Order)

The Faraday and Winter series follows DI Joe Faraday, a Portsmouth detective and keen birdwatcher, and DC Paul Winter, his non-traditional and reckless colleague, as they work major crimes in the port city. The series is tied to Portsmouth’s social environment, with poverty, drugs, and local politics being all around them, and the tension between Faraday’s principled approach and Winter’s willingness to cut corners become more prominent as it develops over the twelve books. Paul Winter’s arc becomes quite important mid-series when he starts working for local crime boss Bazza Mackenzie.

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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 crimes in the West Country. The series has the same approach grounded in reality as the Portsmouth novels but in a different place.

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Spoils of War Series (Books in Order)

The Spoils of War series uses World War II as its backdrop, following a small group of recurring characters, including German journalist Werner Nehmann and RAF wireless operator Billy Angell, through important moments of the conflict, from the Spanish Civil War through to the final months of the war in Europe. The books can be read in any order, since they are not published in strict chronological order.

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Enora Andresson Series (Books in Order)

The Enora Andresson series follows 39-year-old Anglo-Breton actress Enora Andresson living in London, who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. She keeps finding herself involved in serious criminal situations due to her personal life. The books are written in the first person, and they have a completely different feel from Graham Hurley’s police procedurals, being more personal and character-driven, and involving contemporary issues including health, the drugs trade, and the pressures of Enora’s public life.

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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, plus 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 earning his BA and MA in English. He began his career as a scriptwriter with Southern Television before moving into producing documentaries, spending two decades directing and producing for ITV. During that time, some of his projects involved filming the discovery of the seabed wrecks of the Titanic and the Bismarck with oceanographer Robert Ballard, and covering Richard Branson’s transatlantic balloon attempt, some of which earned him several awards.

When Television South lost its ITV franchise in the early 1990s, Hurley left television and became a full-time writer. His first novel, Rules of Engagement, was published in 1990 while he was still at ITV, and he followed it with eight more standalone thrillers before Orion commissioned the Joe Faraday crime series that became his best-known work. To research the Faraday novels, he spent several weeks at the Portsmouth CID, gaining insights into the complex realities real-life detectives face every day. The resulting books were praised for the authenticity of the daily police work and the objective portrait of the city. After the Faraday series, Graham Hurley continued with the Jimmy Suttle spin-off, followed by the Spoils of War historical thriller series. He is living in Devon and continues to write. He is married with three sons.

Graham Hurley Book Adaptations

Faraday and Winter series – adapted as the French television series Deux Flics sur les Docks (2011–2013) by Gétévé and France Télévisions. Six 90-minute films were produced, adapting Angels Passing, Cut to Black, One Under, Blood and Honey, Deadlight, and The Take.

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)

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