by Graham Hurley (Author)
A man is chained inside a tunnel and then dismembered and scattered along the tracks by the early morning train from Portsmouth to London. The beginning of DI Joe Faraday's most gruesome case yet, but is it a bizarre suicide or the cruellest of murders? Checking the list of missing persons as the police attempt to identify the body DC Winter comes across a missing man, someone who stepped out of his ordered life with no hint of leaving. He's not the man in the tunnel, he's simply disappeared. The only person he can find who knew him works in the city morgue...ONE UNDER: two crimes, two tangles of emotions and thwarted love, one brilliant microcosm of Britain today.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Orion
Published: 31 Aug 2007
ISBN 10: 0752881736
ISBN 13: 9780752881737
Book Overview: Graham Hurley's reputation is growing with every book. He has been one of the Independent on Sunday's Top Five Crime Writers for 3 years in a row. ONE UNDER hardback reprinted within a month of publication. Graham Hurley always receives excellent reviews: 'There is no one writing better police procedurals today than Graham Hurley. He gives an almost cinematic quality to the narrative, creating a convincing sense of watching a team of real detectives at work' Telegraph '[Faraday] is cementing his reputation as one of Britain's most credible official sleuths, crisscrossing the mean streets of a city that is a brilliantly depicted microcosm of contemporary Britain ... a sterling demonstration of the way crime writing can target society's woes' Guardian. 'Another first rate thriller from a writer who is firmly up there with the best' Sunday Telegraph. 'There is no doubt that his series of police-procedural novels is one of the best since the genre was invented more than half a century ago' Literary Review. 'This is how a crime novel should be written, and it pushes Hurley right to the forefront of British crime writers, which is where he richly deserves to be' Independent on Sunday.
Prizes: Shortlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2008.