The Take

The Take

by Graham Hurley

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Format:
Paperback 
Pages:
400 
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co 
Publication Date:
08 July 2010 
Category:
Crime, Thrillers and Mystery 
ISBN:
9781409120063 

Description

DI Joe Faraday's Management Assistant, Vanessa Parry, is dead, killed in a head-on car smash. Her funeral is a bitter end to another grim week in the front line of the ongoing war against Portsmouth's surging crime wave. And now the seemingly untouchable DC Paul Winter, master of the scam, has been hurt in a way he could never have imagined: his wife has cancer. It's inoperable and she has barely three months to live. Paul Winter has only one instinct - to lash out. But there's precious little time for grief on a Portsmouth CID squad. A disgraced gynaecologist is missing and his caseload of maimed women is a murder-suspect list from hell. It all adds up to an impossible workload, and that's without the suits and the politicians conspiring to make it even harder...

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  • Second Faraday book (Turnstone being the first), this is an easy read, although I'm still uncertain about this series. Whilst labelled as a "Faraday" book (and the character is becoming an interesting and enjoyable character), the book gives as much attention to Paul Winter, the police man happy, willing and able to go out on his own for days on end with no recourse as to what he's been doing and how he has got the results he has. There are multiple stories going along and some are given so little relevance (Vanessa's absence from the office could have been explained away by her getting married, rather than murdered in an RTA), and sometimes I wonder why he bothered on some plot lines, when focus could have been placed on the bigger story lines.

    out of 5

    nordie

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