Books by John Harvey
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review 1: Another well written police procedural from Harvey. The main character, DCI Karen Shields, is not as well drawn as his other main protagonist, Charlie Resnick, although unfortunately the last Resnick novel has been written. Sometimes it is difficult for a male writer to write f...
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review 1: Published in 2008 after Last Rites supposedly Charlie Resnick's last case, Cold in Hand continues the series. On Valentine's Day, the day of love, a dispute between rival gang members leaves a girl dead. Charlie is called back to the front line to deal with the fallout. He is liv...
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review 1: A good book from an excellent writer but I had some issues. First, I hate it when a detective is sure a criminal has does something else wrong and becomes obsessed with finding it. The certainty is not based on fact but on the detective's instinct/intuition. Second, the guilty u...
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review 1: Charlie Resnik, retired cop in Nottinghamshire, is working as a civilian with the police. He is asked by Catherine Njoroge to work with her on a bodied discovered buried under a door step in Bledwell Vale. The body is determined to be a woman, Jenny Hardwick, who disappeared du...