Turnstone

Portsmouth is a city on the ropes, a poor, dirty but spirited city, with
a soaring crime rate. And it is home for DI Joe Faraday. Faraday has
made it in the CID through diligence, an unswerving commitment to
principle and an uncanny knack for gauging character. Slow to make
friends, a widower bringing up his profoundly deaf son, Faraday pushes
himself hard and expects the same from his colleagues. Stories abound of
the quiet DI's sudden, volcanic outbursts of fury directed at inferiors
and superiors alike who haven't matched his own exacting standards. An
enigma to those he works with, Faraday's refuge from the desperate
business of policing his hometown is his passion for the natural world
and the bird life that teems on the beaches and estuaries of the South
coast. And now the sinking of one of the yachts in the Fastnet race is
beginning to look like the perfect cover for a murder that cuts to the
core of Portsmouth's money set. But only Joe Faraday believes it
happened.