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University of Nottingham. Goldsmiths, University of London.
(A series of robberies take Charlie Resnick back in time t...)
A series of robberies take Charlie Resnick back in time to a similar crime and painful memories of a decade earlier, and he must control his emotions and solve the case. By the author of Lonely Hearts. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
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( “Charlie Resnick is one of the most fully realized char...)
“Charlie Resnick is one of the most fully realized characters in modern crime fiction.”—Sue Grafton “Such satisfying reading. No wasted time here.”—Publishers Weekly When Nancy Phelan, a young woman who works at the housing office, is kidnapped from outside the office’s Christmas party, suspicion falls on a young client who attacked her earlier that day. Little in Resnick’s life is that simple, however, especially at Christmas, and as the mystery of Nancy’s disappearance deepens, the most trusted of his team, Lynn Kellogg, unwittingly puts herself in the path of a dangerous psychopath.
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(John Harvey is best known for his richly praised sequence...)
John Harvey is best known for his richly praised sequence of ten Nottingham-based Charlie Resnick novels, the first of which, Lonely Hearts, was recently chosen by The Times as one of the '100 Best Crime Novels of the Century'. He is also a poet, dramatist and broadcaster. After living in Nottingham for a good number of years, he has now returned to London to live with his partner and their young daughter. Titles included in this Set are : 1. Off Minor, 2. Lonely Hearts, 3. Still Water, 4. Rough Treatment, 5. Last Rites, 6. In a True Light, 7. Cutting Edge
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( In the depths of his Cornish hideaway, retired Detectiv...)
In the depths of his Cornish hideaway, retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder’s solitary life is disturbed by a call from his ex-wife, telling him his seventeen-year-old daughter, Katherine, is running wild, unbalanced by the abduction and rape he feels he should have prevented. Meanwhile, in the heart of London, the takedown of a violent criminal goes badly, and Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch is uneasy about the reasons why, an uneasiness that is compounded when she starts to believe she is being stalked. Maddy and Frank had a brief and clumsy encounter years before. In Ash & Bone their lives connect again when a second phone call persuades Elder out of retirement, only to find that a cold case has a devastating present-day impact.
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( A peculiar pair of burglars make a deal with one of the...)
A peculiar pair of burglars make a deal with one of their victims Maria Roy is in the tub, musing on her hatred for her movie producer husband, when Grabianski and Grice break into her house. Though she is fearful at first, something about Jerry Grabianski’s confidence calms her down. Over tall glasses of Scotch, she directs them to her valuablesâjewelry, bonds, her wedding tapeâeven doing them the favor of unlocking her husband’s safe. There Grabianski finds a surprise: a kilo of cocaine. He leaves with the drugs, the valuables, and a piece of Maria’s heart. Â This is not the story she tells to police inspector Charlie Resnick, but Maria’s confusion makes the disheveled detective doubt her account of the robbery. As he combs Nottingham for the burglars, Maria and Jerry’s love affair charges ahead. She is about to learn that not even love can keep crime from turning bloody.
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( It's Valentine’s Day, and a dispute between rival gangs...)
It's Valentine’s Day, and a dispute between rival gangs leaves a teenage girl dead. Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, nearing retirement, is hauled back to the front line to help deal with the fallout. But when the dead girl’s father seeks to lay the blame on Resnick’s partner, DI Lynn Kellogg, Resnick finds the line between the personal and the professional dangerously blurred. Meanwhile, the Serious and Organised Crime Agency starts to show a keen interest in one of Kellogg’s murder cases--a case the agency is convinced is linked to international gun running and people trafficking. Soon Kellogg is drawn into a web of deceit and betrayal that puts both her and Resnick in mortal danger. In Cold In Hand, John Harvey brings back "one of the most fully realized characters in modern crime fiction" (Sue Grafton) in another heart-stopping procedural.
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(When two little girls disappear from their respective hom...)
When two little girls disappear from their respective homes, Charlie Resnick begins his investigation and must race against time to save the remaining child after one of them turns up murdered. By the author of Cutting Edge. 20,000 first printing. ad/promo.
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( The striking new crime novel from the Cartier Diamond D...)
The striking new crime novel from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and London Times bestselling author. When a 17-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime Unit. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn't know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organized crime which infiltrates almost every aspect of London society. Several hundred miles away in Cornwall, Detective Inspector Trevor Cordon is stirred from his day-to-day duties by another tragic London fatality. Traveling to the capital and determined to establish the cause of death and trace the deceased's daughter, Cordon becomes entangled in a complicated situation of his own. A situation much closer to Karen's case than either of them will ever know. Brilliantly plotted and filled with rich, subtle characters, John Harvey's latest novel reveals him once again as a masterful writer with his finger firmly on the pulse of twenty-first century crime.
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( “Harvey’s seventh procedural is smartly paced, slyly hu...)
“Harvey’s seventh procedural is smartly paced, slyly humorous, unsentimental about police work, violence, and other alienations of aff ection—altogether one of his best. Just like his first six.”—Kirkus Reviews “John Harvey’s Resnick novels are far and away the finest British police procedurals yet written.”—GQ “If Harvey gets any better, the rest of us may have to kill him.”—Reginald Hill Resnick’s hands are full enough tracking down the prostitute who is stabbing her clients, without having to babysit a strong-mouthed American crime writer, visiting the city with her husband and prey to threats of violence.
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( In the depths of his Cornish hideaway, retired Detectiv...)
In the depths of his Cornish hideaway, retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's solitary life is disturbed by a call from his estranged wife, telling him his seventeen-year-old daughter, Katherine, is running wild, unbalanced by the abduction and rape he feels he should have prevented. Meanwhile, in the heart of London, the takedown of a violent criminal goes badly, and Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch is uneasy about the reasons why, an uneasiness that is compounded when she starts to believe she is being stalked. Maddy and Frank have a connection, a brief and clumsy encounter years before that has left a trace of lingering regret. In Ash & Bone their lives connect again when a second phone call persuades the unsettled, unhappy Elder out of retirement, only to find that a cold case has a devastating present-day impact.
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(Two little girls are missing, two little girls of the sam...)
Two little girls are missing, two little girls of the same age but very different backgrounds who lived near one another. To Resnick, that was the only connection. Until one of them turned up dead. Fast-paced and full of the abrasive and often despairing work of cops everywhere, this is both a richly textured novel and a heart-stopping thriller.
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( After his wife's betrayal and his own retirement from t...)
After his wife's betrayal and his own retirement from the force, Detective Inspector Elder has fled as far as possible to go in England without running out of land. But he is haunted by the past and in particular by the unsolved disappearance of sixteen-year-old Susan Blacklock back in 1988. Shane Donald and Alan McKeirnan, convicted just one year later for the brutal rape and murder of a young girl, remain the prime suspects in Elder's mind, and when he hears of Shane's early release from prison, he feels compelled to leave his safe haven and to revisit the scene of the crime. When Shane breaks parole and disappears and yet another young girl is horribly murdered, Elder's involvement becomes crucial. McKiernan seems to still wield a frightening power over his ex-partner even from his prison cell, and the new murder bears all the hallmarks of their earlier crime. Taunted by postcards from the killer, an increasingly desperate Elder battles his own demons as he and his family are inexorably drawn into the very heart of the crime in this breakthrough novel from John Harvey, winner of the first-ever Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British author.
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“Harvey’s police procedurals are in a class by themselves—near Dickensian in their portrayal of human frailty, cinematic in their quick changes of scene and character, totally convincing in their plotting and motivation.”—Kirkus Reviews Grice and Grabianski are an ill-matched pair of burglars working Charlie Resnick’s patch. When they break into the house of television director Harold Roy, they get more than they bargained for. Grabianski falls in love—or is it lust—with the director’s wife, and the pair become enmeshed in a dangerous plot to sell the cocaine that was in the safe back to its supplier.
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( “A master of the craft. John Harvey is lights out one o...)
“A master of the craft. John Harvey is lights out one of the best."―Michael Connelly John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime fiction: From the mean streets of London to the jazz clubs and clip joints of Soho, this is a world of broken families, revenge killings, and prostitution; drugs, guns, and corruption; a world of overstretched police forces and underpaid detectives; men and women who strive nonetheless for a kind of justice; a world in which everything, even friendship, has a price. Featuring characters like Frank Elder, who tried to turn his back on police work and failed; Jack Kiley, ex-cop and now a London-based PI; and the renowned jazz loving and much-loved Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, John Harvey’s finely-crafted vignettes perfectly encapsulate life in the badlands of contemporary Britain.
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( “Off Minor by John Harvey is a police procedural story ...)
“Off Minor by John Harvey is a police procedural story plotted on acts of gross inhumanity yet infused with uncommon humanity. These characters are breathing entities, so convincing and so compelling, that crime detection and absorbing personal dramas become one and the same in this book.”—New York Daily News Little Gloria Summers’ body has been found in a disused warehouse, and a week later, there are still no clues. Years of patient police work have taught Inspector Charlie Resnick that those who jump to easy conclusions are often the last ones to solve a crime.
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(An uncannily familiar series of crimes in England's Midla...)
An uncannily familiar series of crimes in England's Midlands sends police detective Charlie Resnick back to his past, to a time when his marriage and his city fell apart, and when he confronted a similar crime spree. Reprint.
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“Harvey’s series about Charlie Resnick, the jazz-loving, melancholy cop in provincial Nottingham, England, has long been one of the finest police procedural series around.”—Publishers Weekly “The characters in John Harvey’s urban crime novels are so defiantly alive and unruly that they put these British police procedurals on a shelf by themselves.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review “Harvey reminds me of Graham Greene, a stylist who tells you everything you need to know while keeping the prose clean and simple. It’s a very realistic style that draws you into the story without the writer getting in the way.”—Elmore Leonard “Charlie Resnick is one of the most fully realized characters in modern crime fiction.”—Sue Grafton The first major case for Charlie Resnick and his team concerns a number of increasingly serious attacks on women who have been using the “Lonely Hearts” column of the local newspaper. Simultaneously, Resnick becomes involved with Rachel Chaplin, the social worker assigned to a family caught up in allegations of child abuse. John Harvey’s Charlie Resnick is British crime fiction’s best-kept secret. In the ten novels Harvey wrote about Resnick before ending the series, he established his character as a believable ordinary policeman who investigated ordinary, everyday crime, rooted in the socioeconomic plight and drab lives of many people in the city of Nottingham. Bloody Brits Press will reissue the entire Inspector Charles Resnick series in the next three seasons.
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(A collection of short stories from the Cartier Diamond Da...)
A collection of short stories from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and Sunday Times bestselling author of the DI Charlie Resnick novels. John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime and in A Darker Shade of Blue he has collected together some of his very best writing. From the killing fields of the East Midlands to the mean streets of London, from the jazz clubs and clip joints of Soho to the barren fenlands of East Anglia, this is a world of broken families and run-down estates, revenge killings and prostitution, drugs, guns and corruption; a world of overstretched police forces and underpaid detectives, men and women who strive nonetheless for a kind of justice; a world in which everything, even friendship, has a price. Featuring characters like Frank Elder, who tried to turn his back on police work and failed; Jack Kiley, ex-copper and one-time professional footballer, now a London-based PI; and the renowned jazz loving and much-loved Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, John Harvey's finely-crafted vignettes perfectly encapsulate life in the badlands of modern Britain.
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( “Still Water explores sexual violence and its devastati...)
“Still Water explores sexual violence and its devastating consequences. But Harvey presents more than a crime novel, weaving ideas as well as crimes and domestic details into a tapestry of intrigue and moral quandary. Still Water goes beyond crime fiction to provide a deeper perspective on the complexities of lust and love.”—San Francisco Chronicle “It’s an ugly crime that’s soon connected to Charlie in an unexpectedly personal fashion. So we get Charlie troubled. We also get Charlie in love and not finding it easy. But as always, we get Charlie stalwart and discovering ways to cope.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
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University of Nottingham. Goldsmiths, University of London.
Harvey has published over 90 books under various names, and has worked on scripts for television and radio. He started writing in the 1970s when he produced a variety of pulp fiction including westerns. He also ran Slow Dancer Press from 1977 to 1999 publishing poetry.
The first Resnick novel, Lonely Hearts, was published in 1989, and was named by The Times as one of the 100 Greatest Crime Novels of the Century.
Harvey brought the series to an end in 2014 with. Resnick has also made peripheral appearances in Harvey"s new Frank Elder series.
The new protagonist Elder is a retired detective who now lives, as Harvey briefly did, in Cornwall. In 2007 he was awarded the Diamond Dagger for a Lifetime"s Contribution to the genre.
1989 - The Times" list of the Hundred Best Crime Novels of the Last Century for Lonely Hearts.
( In the depths of his Cornish hideaway, retired Detectiv...)
( In the depths of his Cornish hideaway, retired Detectiv...)
(John Harvey is best known for his richly praised sequence...)
( “Harvey’s police procedurals are in a class by themselv...)
(An uncannily familiar series of crimes in England's Midla...)
(When two little girls disappear from their respective hom...)
( A peculiar pair of burglars make a deal with one of the...)
( “Harvey’s series about Charlie Resnick, the jazz-loving...)
(A series of robberies take Charlie Resnick back in time t...)
( “Harvey’s seventh procedural is smartly paced, slyly hu...)
( After his wife's betrayal and his own retirement from t...)
(A collection of short stories from the Cartier Diamond Da...)
( “Off Minor by John Harvey is a police procedural story ...)
(Two little girls are missing, two little girls of the sam...)
( The striking new crime novel from the Cartier Diamond D...)
( “Charlie Resnick is one of the most fully realized char...)
( It's Valentine’s Day, and a dispute between rival gangs...)
( “Still Water explores sexual violence and its devastati...)
( “A master of the craft. John Harvey is lights out one o...)
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