<div>A serial killer stalks the women of Nottingham in the first Charlie Resnick Mystery&mdash;&ldquo;A quantum leap for the police procedural&rdquo; (Andrew Vachss, author of the Burke series). Shirley Peters was murdered in her own home. A directionless young woman with a fondness for cheap red wine and a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, her death is just another in the files of the Nottingham detective&rsquo;s bureau. The police round up her ex-lover without much fuss, and are preparing to try him when another body surfaces. The method, the target, and the extreme violence are all a match for the killing of Shirley Peters. Nottingham is facing a serial killer. Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick is the first to see the connection. Both victims placed ads in a citywide Lonely Hearts column, and the rumpled detective suspects that their killer found them by preying on their isolation. He has little time to find the killer before more women die and Nottingham erupts into panic.</div>

Lonely Hearts

<div>A stunning 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 &amp; Serious Crime Unit. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn&rsquo;t know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organised 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. Travelling to the capital and determined to establish the cause of death and trace the deceased&rsquo;s daughter, Cordon becomes entangled in a complicated situation of his own. A situation much closer to Karen&rsquo;s case than either of them will ever know. Brilliantly plotted and filled with rich, subtle characters, John Harvey&rsquo;s latest novel reveals him once again as a masterful writer with his finger firmly on the pulse of twenty-first century crime.</div>

Good Bait

<div>A Christmas kidnapping puts British detective Charlie Resnick in the hot seat. &ldquo;Cold Light is just about flawless&rdquo; (The Washington Post Book World). Working at the Nottingham public housing authority is miserable, but Nancy Phelan knows that the tenants she services are worse off than her. Consider Gary James, whose family Nancy recently assigned to a new council flat. He&rsquo;s got two children, no work, and no heat. As Christmas approaches and his children shiver, he vents his rage at Nancy. After a two-hour wait, he smashes a chair to get her attention, then locks them both in her office. Police inspector Charlie Resnick breaks down the door before he has a chance to hurt her. But hours later, at the office Christmas party, Nancy disappears. Although Gary James is the logical suspect, when the kidnapper starts sending the police department tapes, Resnick fears that the New Year may herald a psychopath.</div>

Cold Light

<div>The brooding British detective returns in this &ldquo;moody revenge tragedy . . . Harvey creates characters of astonishing psychological diversity&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). Karen Archer understands that women who date doctors should expect tardiness. The last time she invited Tim Fletcher over, he arrived from the emergency room exhausted, and barely had time to say hello before he passed out on her bed. Tonight her patience has run out. After a bottle of wine and too much television, she gives up on Fletcher and leaves the house to find her own fun&mdash;but instead she finds Fletcher, covered in blood, sprawled across the steps near her building. Karen runs to find the police, not sure if Fletcher is alive or dead. Despite his blood loss, Fletcher survives. Soon the attacker comes for other members of the hospital staff, and police inspector Charlie Resnick must race to find him before the slasher graduates from assault to murder.</div>

Cutting Edge

<div>A teenage thug&rsquo;s apparent suicide reveals a vicious cycle of violence: &ldquo;No one does the British police procedural better&rdquo; (Manchester Evening News). Nicky Snape likes robbing old people. The fifteen-year-old snatches shirts from stores, purses from his teachers, and as much money as he can lift from his mother. But for an easy score he knows no better target than the elderly. When he sneaks into the home of Eric and Doris Netherfield, his footsteps wake the old couple. With a piece of steel railing he keeps by the bed for protection, Eric attempts to defend his home. He fails. Nicky fights back, battering them both to within an inch of their lives. Nottingham police inspector Charlie Resnick knows Nicky Snape, and doesn&rsquo;t hesitate to arrest him. But what should be the end of the crime is only the beginning, as Snape&rsquo;s arrest sparks a chain reaction of rape, suicide, and murder.</div>

Easy Meat

<div>A Northern England cop tries to track down an escaped convict: &ldquo;One of the finest police procedural series around&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). It has been thirteen years since Michael Preston killed his father, and now his mother is dead too. Halfway through his twenty-four year sentence, Michael is a docile prisoner whom the warden doesn&rsquo;t mind letting out for an afternoon to pay his respects. Michael goes to the funeral under armed guard, and when the time comes to return to jail, he gives them the slip. Police inspector Charlie Resnick&rsquo;s city is under siege by drugs, gang warfare, and unhinged murderers. As blood flows in the streets of Nottingham, the rumpled detective attempts to hold his department together while his personal life comes unhinged. An escaped killer and an ever-rising crime wave are trouble enough, but Resnick has problems at home that may prove impossible to solve.</div>

Last Rites

<div>In the North of England, a cop hunts for a homicidal woman: &ldquo;Smartly paced, slyly humorous, unsentimental about police work . . . one of his best&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). Although the cop who finds the man in Alfreton Road describes him as &ldquo;absolutely stark bollock naked,&rdquo; that is not quite true&mdash;he is wearing a sock. The naked man is flabby, middle-aged, and bleeding heavily, in no shape to be sprinting down the street at three in the morning. After the ER doctors patch up his stab wound, the man tells the police he was attacked by a prostitute. Then he clams up, embarrassed, and refuses to even give his name. This is the fourth such recent attack reported to police inspector Charlie Resnick&rsquo;s thinly stretched Nottingham police department. Two victims were salesmen; the other was a traveling Italian soccer fan, lured away from his friends by a redheaded beauty. It&rsquo;s up to Resnick to find a link between the crimes, and to nab the perpetrator before more of the city&rsquo;s men let their basest urges lead them into peril.</div>

Living Proof

<div>The author of the Frank Elder Mystery, Body &amp; Soul, delivers &ldquo;a powerful, first-class police procedural&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). Raymond Cooke is looking for revenge, not corpses. It&rsquo;s been six weeks since the gang of four young punks attacked him, since the one with the knife slit open his belly and left him to die on the street. After that Raymond bought a knife of his own, and has spent his nights lurking in Nottingham&rsquo;s worst pubs, hoping for a chance at vengeance. Instead, walking home one night, he encounters a smell that reminds him of his work at the abattoir. It&rsquo;s coming from the body of Gloria Summers. For over two months, police inspector Charlie Resnick has looked for the missing six-year-old. Now that she&rsquo;s been found, Raymond Cooke becomes Resnick&rsquo;s chief suspect. But to find the killer, the disheveled detective may have to look within the girl&rsquo;s own family.</div>

Off Minor

<div>A willing victim complicates a case for Detective Charlie Resnick, &ldquo;one of the most fully realized characters in modern crime fiction&rdquo; (Sue Grafton). 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&rsquo;s confidence calms her down. Over tall glasses of Scotch, she directs them to her valuables&mdash;jewelry, bonds, her wedding tape&mdash;even doing them the favor of unlocking her husband&rsquo;s safe. There Grabianski finds a surprise: a kilo of cocaine. He leaves with the drugs, the valuables, and a piece of Maria&rsquo;s heart. This is not the story she tells to police inspector Charlie Resnick, but Maria&rsquo;s confusion makes the disheveled detective doubt her account of the robbery. As he combs Nottingham for the burglars, Maria and Jerry&rsquo;s love affair charges ahead. She is about to learn that not even love can keep crime from turning bloody.</div>

Rough Treatment

<div>A British police investigator looks into the murder of an abused woman: &ldquo;More than a crime novel . . . a tapestry of intrigue and moral quandary&rdquo; (San Francisco Chronicle). For Charlie Resnick, the night they found the body in the water was the night that Milt Jackson came to town. Resnick is a jazz fiend and considers Jackson, a contemporary of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, one of the all-time greats. He has just sat down for the concert when the call comes in about the body. Gravely disappointed, the police inspector tears across town to run the crime scene. He finds the body of a young woman who shows signs of blunt force trauma and a recently terminated pregnancy. Attempts to identify the girl, and to link her to three other bodies recently found in canals, are futile. The case goes nowhere, but Resnick always remembers the night he missed Milt Jackson. When another woman disappears, Resnick reopens the case, and finds that few places hold darker secrets than the black waters of the Nottingham canals.</div>

Still Water

<div>A detective&rsquo;s dark past meets his violent present in &ldquo;[a] rich tapestry that lifts the police procedural into the realm of the mainstream novel&rdquo; (Sue Grafton). It starts with five professional thieves. At their first robbery, they press a sawed-off shotgun against a bank manager&rsquo;s head, and leave with nearly forty thousand pounds. They repeat the trick three times, raking in nearly half a million in cash. They have yet to kill, but with each raid they come closer to taking their bounty in blood. The Nottingham police department charges the brilliant but troubled Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick with stopping the crime spree. When the robberies turn violent, he can no longer deny their similarity to a long-buried incident from ten years ago, when a confrontation with a sociopathic killer nearly cost him his life. To halt this chilling crime wave, he must reopen a case he has spent a decade trying to forget.</div>

Wasted Years

<div>A private investigator stumbles upon the body of a female singer in this mystery from an author praised by Elmore Leonard for his &ldquo;clean and simple&rdquo; prose. When Scott Mitchell loved Candi Carter, her name was just plain Ann. Back then she was a hippie, playing tambourine in some no-name band. Now she&rsquo;s the most famous singer in Britain, and she has plans to conquer America next&mdash;but first she needs her old friend&rsquo;s help. And when the famed songbird asks Mitchell to come down to her house in Nottingham, he can&rsquo;t refuse, even though the sound of her voice makes him feel like his heart is breaking all over again. He pulls himself out of an alcoholic haze, takes the train from London, and stumbles right into a murder scene. Mitchell finds Carter dead in her living room, a trickle of blood coming from her mouth and a bullet in her chest. Her body is still warm. But before he can get out of there, he&rsquo;s blackjacked, and when he comes to, he&rsquo;s picked up by a pair of cops who beat him senseless and drag him to the nearest cell. Mitchell is having a hell of a day&mdash;and things will only get worse from here. First published in 1976, this is the debut novel of John Harvey, who would go on to create the legendary hardboiled Charlie Resnick Mysteries. Harvey&rsquo;s first crack at transplanting the kind of tough-talking American PI of Raymond Chandler and John D. MacDonald to the United Kingdom works beautifully. Scott Mitchell isn&rsquo;t just the toughest detective in Britain&mdash;he&rsquo;s also the best. Amphetamines and Pearls is the 1st book in the Scott Mitchell Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

Amphetamines and Pearls

<div>Scott Mitchell, the toughest private detective in England, is about to find that kidnapping and murder go hand in hand in this classic hardboiled mystery. Even over the telephone, Scott Mitchell can tell the caller is more beautiful than any woman he&rsquo;s ever met. Her name is Stephanie Miller, and from the tremor in her voice, it sounds like a matter of life and death. Miss Miller works for Crosby Blake, one of the most powerful, and dangerous, men in London. Blake&rsquo;s niece, Cathy, is missing, and it will take a ruthless private detective to find her&mdash;and Mitchell is as ruthless as they come. On the night she disappeared, Cathy came home at 10:30 and went straight to bed. The next morning, her room was empty, as if she&rsquo;d simply disappeared. Soon, the phone rang, and a muffled voice demanded &pound;20,000 in small bills and utter discretion. If anyone muttered one word to the police, Cathy would be dead. That&rsquo;s when it becomes Mitchell&rsquo;s problem. To bring her back safely, he&rsquo;ll have to untangle a web of deadly lies that threaten to bind him tighter with every question he asks. Written in the tradition of classic private-eye novels like Raymond Chandler&rsquo;s The Big Sleep and Ross Macdonald&rsquo;s The Way Some People Die, The Geranium Kiss is as hardboiled as they come. The Geranium Kiss is the 2nd book in the Scott Mitchell Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

The Geranium Kiss

<div>Scott Mitchell, Britain&rsquo;s toughest private eye, finds himself marked for murder in this gritty hardboiled mystery. In a freezing London flat, Scott Mitchell fights to stay warm. His thermos is empty and his hands are numb, but he keeps his vigil for the best reason in the world: He needs the money. A sleazy developer hired him to keep track of the comings and goings in the building across the road, but after too many hours of inactivity, Mitchell decides to do something unorthodox. He goes across the street and lets himself inside. It&rsquo;s the worst decision he&rsquo;ll ever make. Mitchell has just stepped inside when a blackjack cracks him across the skull, and he crashes to the floor. When he comes to, he finds a photo of a beautiful woman&mdash;and a dead girl lying on the bed. Mitchell has fallen face-first into a murder scene, and it won&rsquo;t be long before he&rsquo;s wishing he&rsquo;d frozen instead. A hardboiled mystery in the tradition of Raymond Chandler and John D. MacDonald, Junkyard Angel grips readers from the first page and doesn&rsquo;t let go. From the creator of legendary detective Charlie Resnick, the Scott Mitchell Mysteries give us the toughest private eye to ever walk the streets of London. Junkyard Angel is the 3rd book in the Scott Mitchell Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

Junkyard Angel

<div>The final entry in the groundbreaking series of hardboiled British mysteries starring Scott Mitchell, the toughest detective to ever call London home. The ledge isn&rsquo;t quite wide enough for Scott Mitchell to stand, but he&rsquo;ll have to make it work. He keeps his balance just long enough to get a few quick snaps of the motel room opposite, where a client&rsquo;s wife is enjoying a spirited act of adultery and has no idea that she&rsquo;s been caught on film. It&rsquo;s sleazy work, but anything that keeps Mitchell&rsquo;s wallet fat and his hide safe is fine by him. But he took this case because it carried not a hint of danger&mdash;so why is somebody trying to kill him? The West Indian man bursts into Mitchell&rsquo;s office threatening to tear him apart. Mitchell talks him down before the man is able to break any limbs&mdash;or, God forbid, his camera&mdash;but he still hasn&rsquo;t got a clue who the intruder is, or how he&rsquo;s tied up in the adultery case. And when this simple bit of divorce work goes from quick and easy to slow and deadly, Mitchell will have to move fast if he wants to stay alive. The final novel in the series that brought the American hardboiled style to Britain, Neon Madman is perfect for fans of Raymond Chandler and John D. MacDonald. Scott Mitchell was one of the first hardboiled British private investigators, and he remains the best. Neon Madman is the 4th book in the Scott Mitchell Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

Neon Madman

<div>Two novels introduce the violent mysteries of Scott Mitchell, the toughest detective in London, who taught the British Isles what it means to be hardboiled. Amphetamines and Pearls marked the debut of Scott Mitchell, a down-on-his-luck London PI who ventures to Nottingham for the sake of an old friend, iconic singer Candi Carter. Mitchell finds Carter dead in her living room, a trickle of blood coming from her mouth and a bullet hole in her chest. Her body is still warm. But before he can get out of there, he&rsquo;s blackjacked, and when he comes to, he&rsquo;s picked up by a pair of cops who beat him senseless and drag him to the nearest cell. Mitchell is having a hell of a day&mdash;and things will only get worse from here. In The Geranium Kiss, Mitchell takes a job from Crosby Blake, one of the most powerful men in London&mdash;and one of the most dangerous. Blake&rsquo;s niece, Cathy, has been kidnapped, and he wants Mitchell to handle the ransom payment. The kidnappers want &pound;20,000, and about 20,000 things will go wrong before this case is finished. To bring Cathy home alive, Mitchell will have to untangle a web of deadly lies that threaten to bind him tighter with every question he asks. Written in the hardboiled spirit of Raymond Chandler and John D. MacDonald, the Scott Mitchell novels are a unique hybrid of American and British mysteries. Created by John Harvey, who would later create the legendary sleuth Charlie Resnick, these novels are as tough as they come.</div>

Amphetamines and Pearls &amp; The Geranium Kiss

<div>A pair of violent mystery novels starring London detective Scott Mitchell, the groundbreaking PI who introduced Britain to hardboiled crime fiction. Junkyard Angel starts with Scott Mitchell deciding to sneak into a flat he&rsquo;s supposed to be watching from across the road to avoid freezing to death. It&rsquo;s the worst decision he&rsquo;ll ever make. He&rsquo;s just stepped inside when a blackjack cracks him across the skull, and he crashes to the floor, unconscious. When he comes to, he finds a photo of a beautiful woman&mdash;and a dead girl lying on the bed. Mitchell has fallen face-first into a murder scene, and it won&rsquo;t be long before he&rsquo;s wishing he&rsquo;d frozen instead. In Neon Madman, Mitchell is trying to stay out of trouble by doing some safe, sleazy divorce work&mdash;so why is somebody trying to kill him? When a West Indian man bursts into his office threatening to tear him apart, Mitchell talks him down before the man is able to breaks any of his limbs&mdash;or, God forbid, his camera&mdash;but he still hasn&rsquo;t got a clue who the intruder is, or how he&rsquo;s tied up in the adultery case. And when this supposedly simple case goes from quick and easy to slow and deadly, Mitchell will have to move fast if he wants to stay alive. Written in the tradition of Raymond Chandler and John D. MacDonald, Junkyard Angel and Neon Madman are hardboiled classics. From the pen of the creator of legendary sleuth Charlie Resnick, these two novels hit as hard as a double bourbon&mdash;or two bullets to the skull.</div>

Junkyard Angel &amp; Neon Madman

<div>The stylish tale of a dead poet, a rediscovered pulp novel, and a lovely lady with a story to sell from the author of the Charles Resnick Mysteries. Ex&ndash;Metropolitan Police Officer Jack Kiley spent his career discerning fact from fiction. Now a private detective, Kiley has agreed to investigate the provenance of a newly discovered manuscript. Lost for decades, Dead Dames Don&rsquo;t Sing is typical pulp fodder: &ldquo;Hard, fast, and deadly,&rdquo; according to Daniel Pike, the rare book dealer who hires Kiley. What makes it unusual&mdash;and potentially valuable&mdash;is that the novel appears to have been written by the late poet William Pierce before he made a name for himself. Pierce&rsquo;s bewitching socialite-cum-model daughter, Alexandra, insists that it&rsquo;s genuine, but Kiley isn&rsquo;t so sure. Something doesn&rsquo;t feel right, but the deeper he digs, the more he wonders if poetry and pulp really are such strange bedfellows. Hailed as &ldquo;one of our most accomplished writers&rdquo; by The Daily Telegraph, John Harvey brings swinging London&mdash;both past and present&mdash;to life in this gripping novella. The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.</div>

Dead Dames Don't Sing

<div>Five thrilling tales of mystery, mayhem, and murder from an exceptional quintet of Edgar, CWA Dagger, and National Book Award winners. Crime and literature make strange and sinister bedfellows in this winning anthology of book-themed whodunits by five acclaimed masters of mystery and suspense. Multiple award-winning, bestselling authors provide the literary thrills and chills in this masterful collection of five ingeniously puzzling mysteries that belong in the library of every crime fiction aficionado. Dead Dames Don&rsquo;t Sing by John Harvey: Looking for a big payday but finding big trouble instead, ex-London-cop-turned-private-investigator Jack Kiley attempts to uncover the true origins of a controversial, pseudonymously written pulp novel. The Travelling Companion by Ian Rankin: A young Scotsman in Paris is drawn into a shocking mystery that resides within the pages of an unpublished manuscript allegedly penned by Robert Louis Stevenson. Mystery, Inc. by Joyce Carol Oates: When an obsessive collector of bookstores discovers a charming new shop, he decides he must have it at any cost&mdash;even if he has to commit murder. Remaindered by Peter Lovesey: For some nefarious reason, the widow and former associates of a slain gangster are determined to keep the Precious Finds Bookstore open following the unfortunate demise of the shop&rsquo;s owner. The Book Thing by Laura Lippman: Private investigator Tess Monaghan must help the irascible proprietor of a Baltimore children&rsquo;s bookstore keep her business afloat by unmasking an elusive and utterly ingenious book thief.</div>

Bookshop Mysteries

<div>&ldquo;A welcome return for Nottingham Inspector Charlie Resnick, who&rsquo;s been absent from novel-length crime-fighting since Last Rites.&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus Reviews It&rsquo;s Valentine&rsquo;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&rsquo;s father seeks to lay the blame on Resnick&rsquo;s partner, DI Lynn Kellogg, Resnick finds the line between the personal and the professional dangerously blurred. Meanwhile, the Serious and Organized Crime Agency starts to show a keen interest in one of Kellogg&rsquo;s murder cases&mdash;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 &ldquo;one of the most fully realized characters in modern crime fiction&rdquo; in another heart-stopping procedural (Sue Grafton). &ldquo;The book is quite possibly Harvey&rsquo;s most authoritative in years: visceral, engaged and, yes, unputdownable.&rdquo;&mdash;Independent &ldquo;It&rsquo;s impossible not to greet the return of Resnick in this eleventh, coda-like, deeply melancholy novel with anything but celebration.&rdquo;&mdash;Booklist (starred review) &ldquo;Impassioned, at times heartbreaking . . . [Cold in Hand] confirms Harvey as one of our most accomplished writers in any genre.&rdquo;&mdash;Sunday Telegraph</div>

John Harvey

Books By John Harvey (20 Books)