Graham Hurley, born in 1946 at Clacton on Sea, is an English crime fiction writer. Formerly based in Portsmouth but now relocated in the West Country, he is best known for creating the character of DI Joe Faraday, following several standalone novels. He contributed a column to The Portsmouth News. He received both a BA and an MA in English from the University of Cambridge. He worked as a script-writer with Southern Television before becoming a researcher and later a director. For TVS He filmed the discovery of the seabed wrecks of the Titanic and the Bismarck (with American oceanographer Robert Ballard) and produced ITV’s account of Richard Branson’s attempt to cross the Atlantic by balloon. Bibliography Standalone Novels Rules of Engagement Reaper The Devil's Breath Thunder in the Blood Sabbathman The Perfect Soldier Heaven's Light Nocturne Permissible Limits DI Joe Faraday series Turnstone The Take Angels Passing Deadlight Cut To Black Blood and Honey One Under The Price of Darkness No Lovelier Death Beyond Reach Borrowed Light Happy Days (2012) Backstory (2012) - A collection of stories filling the back story of the series D/S Jimmy Suttle series Western Approaches (2012) Touching Distance (2013) Sins of the Father (2014) The Order of Things (2015) Wars Within series Finisterre (2016) Aurore (2017) Estocada' (2018)Raid 42 (2019)Last Flight To Stalingrad (2020)Kyiv (2021) Enora Andressen seriesCurtain Call (2019)Sight Unseen (2019)Off Script (2020)Limelight (2020)Intermission (2021) Adaptations Gétévé and France Télévisions started adapting Hurley's Faraday stories in 2011 through 90 minute television films under the title Deux Flics sur les Docks (lit. Two Cops on the Docks). Jean-Marc Barr and Bruno Solo headline the series, portraying Joe Faraday and Paul Winter respectively. By the end of 2013, six films have been produced and broadcast, adapting the novels Angels Passing, Cut To Black, One Under, Blood and Honey, Deadlight and The Take''. References External links Interview with The Guardian 1946 births English crime fiction writers English people of Irish descent People from Clacton-on-Sea Writers from Portsmouth Living people Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people)