Graham Hurley Books in Order

After a motorcycle crash leaves 19-year-old Neil Slatter paralysed from the shoulders down, Hurley follows the hard realities of disability, recovery, and resilience. It is a humane account of one man's life after catastrophe.

With the superpowers edging toward confrontation, Portsmouth is sealed off as Britain braces for nuclear crisis. Hurley turns a near-future emergency into a tense story about power, panic, and what happens when civil order starts to crack.

In 1982, after the IRA hunger strikes, a revenge plot gathers pace just as Britain heads for war in the South Atlantic. The result is a tight political thriller driven by anger, secrecy, and the threat of a devastating strike.

A stand-alone thriller shaped by old conflicts and private loyalties, where violence never stays buried for long. Hurley keeps the focus on the human cost as personal obsessions edge toward something much more dangerous.

A vigilante killer known as the Sabbathman starts targeting people who have prospered under government policy. As public anger swells and MI5 closes in, the book becomes a dark, uneasy thriller about politics, punishment, and applause for violence.

Molly Jordan travels to Angola after her son's death in a minefield, determined to learn what really happened. Her search opens onto the brutal trade in landmines and the profit made from other people's wars.

Set on England's south coast, this stand-alone thriller follows lives pulled toward crime, betrayal, and moral compromise. Hurley builds the tension patiently, showing how quickly ordinary hopes can be overwhelmed by fear and pressure.

Hurley spent a year inside the team behind the Royal International Air Tattoo and turned it into a vivid piece of reportage. It captures the politics, volunteer effort, setbacks, and sheer scale behind a huge air show.

Media graduate Julie Emerson arrives in London looking for a future of her own. Instead she is caught between a consuming affair and a neighbour whose obsession turns steadily more frightening.

Ellie Bruce stands at the centre of this stand-alone thriller, a story about damage, desire, and the point where compromise turns dangerous. Hurley keeps the stakes personal, tracing the cost of pushing past the limits that should protect us.

When Stuart Maloney disappears, D/I Joe Faraday is convinced it is more than a missing-person case. In an overstretched Portsmouth battered by crime, following that hunch becomes a fight for truth, and for Faraday's own peace of mind.

Joe Faraday is swamped by grief, staff shortages, and the disappearance of a disgraced gynaecologist whose past has left many possible enemies. At the same time Paul Winter is pushed to breaking point by his wife's terminal illness.

A fourteen-year-old girl falls from a tower block, while a drug dealer is found hanging from a tree. Faraday's search through broken families and neglected children becomes even harder when trouble hits close to home.

Faraday investigates the murder of a hated prison officer, only to find the case reaching back to a Falklands-era naval tragedy. To get at the truth he has to break through Navy silence and an old need for revenge.

With drug boss Bazza Mackenzie apparently turning respectable, the police launch an undercover operation to bring him down. Faraday and Winter are pulled into a murky struggle over drugs, loyalty, and who can still be trusted.

A headless corpse on the Isle of Wight sends Faraday into the brutal trade in people, from illegal labour to prostitution. Winter, meanwhile, is fighting for his career and making choices that may ruin what is left of it.

A body chained inside a railway tunnel is torn apart by the first train out of Portsmouth. As Faraday hunts a killer, Winter becomes obsessed with a separate disappearance that may be just as troubling.

This short Hurley thriller wastes no time, dropping its characters into a world of threat, pressure, and sudden violence. Lean and fast-moving, it shows how quickly one ruthless act can change everything.

Winter goes undercover inside Bazza Mackenzie's world just as Portsmouth is hit by two high-profile murders. Faraday works both enquiries, but the deeper he digs, the more dangerous Winter's double life becomes.

Disillusioned with the police, Paul Winter crosses a line and starts working for Bazza Mackenzie. Faraday is left to investigate fresh violence in a city where the boundary between law and organised crime is getting harder to see.

A compact thriller about unfinished business and fears that refuse to stay in the past. Hurley uses a near-future edge to build tension, then lets politics and personal history do the rest.

A brutal hit-and-run leaves one young man dead and links Faraday to a buried crime from 25 years earlier. As the case opens old wounds, Paul Winter has reasons of his own for wanting the past left alone.

After a crash in the Middle East, Faraday wakes in a hospital crowded with the wounded from Gaza and becomes fixated on helping a badly burned Palestinian girl. Back in Portsmouth, Bazza's empire is starting to crack.

Part companion, part memoir, this book explains how the Faraday novels were built, from police research to character design and Portsmouth detail. It is the best place to look behind the scenes of the series.

Hurley's memoir of his parents' later years is candid, affectionate, and sometimes hard to read. It looks closely at aging, family duty, and the emotional mess that gathers when love meets decline.

Joe Faraday is dead, and his funeral brings old loyalties and new betrayals into the open. As Paul Winter turns informant and Bazza Mackenzie launches a political campaign, the Portsmouth saga heads for its reckoning.

As Saddam Hussein tightens his grip on Kuwait in 1990, a separate strike begins far from the Gulf. Hurley turns global crisis into a fast, high-stakes thriller with terror, espionage, and a chilling ultimatum at its core.

New to Devon and Cornwall after his Portsmouth years, Jimmy Suttle suspects a wealthy local man did not simply fall from a balcony. Thin evidence, budget pressure, and a collapsing home life make every step harder.

Jimmy Suttle is hunting a killer after a man is shot dead with his two-year-old son in the back seat. Meanwhile Lizzie's journalism takes her dangerously close to the same truth.

Rupert Moncrieff is murdered in his waterside mansion, surrounded by family members who all have secrets of their own. Suttle's investigation uncovers buried violence, colonial legacies, and grief that refuses to stay quiet.

When G.P. Harriet Reilly is found brutally murdered in Lympstone, Jimmy Suttle and his estranged wife Lizzie begin separate enquiries into the same death. Their search reaches beyond Devon into a much larger betrayal.

A disillusioned U-boat commander survives a wreck off neutral Spain while, across the Atlantic, the race to build the atomic bomb gathers pace. Hurley joins espionage, science, and survival into a wide-angled World War II thriller.

Billy Angell starts out as a young Quaker and theatre worker, then finds himself radicalised by war and drawn into Bomber Command. Survival only leads him into another dangerous world, the secret one behind official patriotism.

Set in 1938, this thriller circles a plot inside Germany to kill Hitler before war breaks loose. A young German fighter pilot and an ex-Royal Marine are pushed into the same shadowy contest of espionage and betrayal.

Actress Enora Andresson is reeling from the collapse of her marriage and a terrifying brain-tumour diagnosis when an old lover re-enters her life. What starts as personal upheaval soon opens onto money, power, and political corruption.

As Britain stands alone and peace talk tempts parts of the establishment, Rudolf Hess makes his extraordinary flight to Scotland. Hurley uses that gamble to explore fear, faction, and the price of ending a war too soon.

Enora's son Malo calls with nightmare news, his girlfriend has been kidnapped and a fortune is demanded for her return. To save her, Enora must work with Hayden Prentice and enter a world of wealth, crime, and threat.

Enora heads to Budleigh Salterton after a shocking disappearance unsettles one of her closest friends. What looks personal at first grows into a darker story about illness, choice, and the way national politics can poison private lives.

A plea for help draws Enora to Exmouth, where a frightened nurse, a missing suspect, and a savage killing all point toward deeper trouble. The case becomes more dangerous the closer she gets to the truth.

In the first Covid lockdown, Enora is drawn to Portsmouth to help Hayden Prentice and friends hit by illness and loss. The pandemic is only part of the danger, because someone else wants Hayden dead.

As Operation Barbarossa closes around Kyiv, British defector Bella Menzies works inside the Soviet machine while the city collapses around her. Trapped between Nazi invasion and Soviet terror, she has nowhere safe to turn.

Mikhail Magalashvili, reborn in Berlin as Werner Nehmann, wins Goebbels's favour with his talent for lies and propaganda. Then one bad gamble sends him east toward Stalingrad, where revenge and catastrophe are waiting.

Set in the final stretch of the war, this novel follows men caught between Nazi collapse and Soviet ambition. Propaganda, espionage, and old debts drive the story as the wreckage of the Reich closes in.

Enora is trying to care for a failing H while her director, her agent, and an ambitious film idea all bring fresh complications. A project linked to Flixcombe's wartime past soon turns personal and dangerous.

During the planning and aftermath of the Dieppe Raid, a British staffer, a young Canadian journalist, and a German intelligence officer are swept into the same disaster. Hurley shows how a grand operation ruins lives one by one.

A young British nurse is pulled into the devastation of the Spanish Civil War and the murkier world behind the headlines. It is a wartime thriller about conscience, manipulation, and the cost of choosing a side.