John Harvey, Author Avon Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-72009-5
As much a sharply etched character study as a police procedural, this engrossing mystery, fourth in the series featuring Det. Inspector Charlie Resnick, finds the hero tracking a child murderer. (July)
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John Harvey. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-68177-873-0
At the start of British author Harvey’s darkly atmospheric fourth and final novel featuring former Nottingham detective inspector Frank Elder (after 2006’s Darkness and Light), Elder’s estranged 23-year-old daughter, Katherine, visits him in...
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John Harvey. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-60598-616-6
Diamond Dagger Award–winner Harvey’s elegiac 12th Charlie Resnick novel (after 2008’s Cold in Hand) will be the final one, according to his afterword. The destruction of an old apartment terrace in the Nottinghamshire village of Bledwell Vale, in...
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John Harvey. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-60598-378-3
The leads of this stand-alone from Harvey (A Darker Shade of Blue), London Det. Chief Insp. Karen Shields and Cornwall Det. Insp. Trevor Cordon, pursue cases in parallel without ever meeting, to intriguing but frustrating effect. A rash of killings...
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John Harvey, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $25 (320p) 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.
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John Harvey, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4150-7
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 (Rough Treatment, Cold Light, Easy Meat, others). ""Has been,"" because with...
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John Harvey, Author Henry Holt & Company $23 (416p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4149-1
Harvey's books about British Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, set in a powerfully evoked provincial city, have a great deal going for them: authentic police detail, a touch of noir romance, a strong feel for working-class angst. What this one...
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John Harvey, Author Henry Holt & Company $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4148-4
Harvey (Cold Light; Rough Treatment) is a hard-bitten British poet of urban angst. His latest gritty crime novel, set in a provincial English city that is clearly Nottingham, has a particularly tough theme: gay male rape. Young ne'er-do-well Nicky...
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John Harvey, Author Henry Holt & Company $22.5 (283p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2045-8
Up to now, Harvey hasn't set his Nottingham copper Charlie Resnick on a false step as the jazz-loving, culinarily adept, love-crossed inspector and his disparate colleagues have probed their way through the urban demimonde of industrial northern...
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John Harvey, Author Henry Holt & Company $22 (370p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2046-5
Harvey's sixth industrial-strength procedural featuring Nottingham copper Charlie Resnick is built of small, delicate images: a young mother warms her hands before touching her sleeping baby in a stone-cold council house; Resnick, foraging in his...
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John Harvey, Author . Carroll & Graf/Penzler $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1053-9
British author Harvey (Lonely Hearts
and others in his Charlie Resnick detective series) offers the stuff noirs are made on in this stand-alone: mean streets and shattered dreams; heartfelt jazz and smoke-filled rooms; lonely people in sleazy bars;
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John Harvey, Author Henry Holt & Company $19.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2044-1
This exacting examination of English urban life masquerading as police procedural owes much to the bruising kitchen-sink dramas of the 1950s by Alan Sillitoe, Keith Waterhouse et al. In his fifth appearance (after Off Minor ), the divorced, cat-lovin
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John Harvey, Author Avon Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71615-9
Harvey's superior novel features tough and reflective British copper Charlie Resnick investigating a series of brutal attacks on medical personnel at a large hospital. (July)
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John Harvey, Author Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0983-5
Inspector Charlie Resnick, first encountered in Lonely Hearts , counters a drug-trafficking ring and suspected police corruption in this well-executed and very human British police procedural, set in an unnamed Midlands city. When Jerzy Grabianski...
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John Harvey, Author Avon Books $4.99 (0p) 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
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John Harvey, Author Henry Holt & Company $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0982-8
British poet and novelist Harvey introduces an appealing and memorable new series character in this, his seventh mystery. Charlie Resnick, a detective in an unnamed city in the North of England, is middle-aged, overweight, divorced and disillusioned.
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John Harvey, Author . Harcourt/Penzler $25 (387p) ISBN 978-0-15-101363-0
Acclaimed British author Harvey takes a break from his popular Charlie Resnick series (Lonely Hearts
, etc.) with this well-written but unexciting police procedural. Stephen Bryan, a gay academic specializing in film studies, has been bludgeoned to...
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John Harvey, Author . Harcourt/Penzler $25 (350p) ISBN 978-0-15-101133-9
In Harvey's engaging third British procedural to feature retired policeman Frank Elder (after 2005's Ash & Bone
), Elder grudgingly agrees to try to find Claire Meecham, the older, widowed sister of a friend of his ex-wife's. While...
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John Harvey, Author . Harcourt/Penzler $25 (373p) ISBN 978-0-15-101139-1
British veteran Harvey's second novel to feature former Nottingham cop Frank Elder is flatly written and cliché-driven, falling short of its predecessor, Flesh & Blood
(2004), which won a CWA Silver Dagger Award. Retired to a shabby...
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John Harvey, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Penzler $26 (500p) ISBN 978-0-547-31594-2
Det. Sgt. Helen Walker and Det. Insp. Will Grayson hunt for a missing girl in this worthy sequel to Gone to Ground
from Cartier Diamond Dagger–winner Harvey. In 1995, pubescent Heather Pierce and her friend Kelly Efford disappear while on...
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John Harvey. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25 (384p) ISBN 978-1-60598-284-7
The 18 crime stories in this sterling collection show Harvey, winner of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for sustained excellence, at the top of his game. His best-known character, Nottingham Det. Insp. Charlie Resnick, appears in four...
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