Graham Hurley

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. Provided by Wikipedia