Flesh and Blood: A Novel of Crime
John Harvey. Carroll & Graf Publishers, $25 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-7867-1359-2
Acclaimed for his Charlie Resnick series (Lonely Hearts, etc.), British author John Harvey introduces a new detective hero, Frank Elder, in Flesh and Blood, a competent if plodding story of an old unsolved case and a teenage girl's disappearance. While the dogged Elder shares many habits with Resnick, from a prodigious appetite for common food to a difficulty with maintaining relationships, he lacks his predecessor's zest for life. Agent, Kimberly Witherspoon at Witherspoon Associates.
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Reviewed on: 06/01/2004
Genre: Fiction
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