Lonely Hearts

John Harvey. Avon Books, $4.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71006-5

British detective Charlie Resnick--middle-aged, overweight, divorced and disillusioned--investigates the murders of two women who shared nothing except their use of the local paper's lonely-hearts column to meet men. ``Harvey introduces an appealing and memorable new series character in this, his seventh mystery,'' commented PW . (May)

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