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Broken Sky

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 10:00:47 +0300

Blame Sir Isaac Newton.
He predicted the world would end in the latter half of the twenty-first century. Now, the Travellers—people who can "remember" their own futures—have determined that Earth's final day is just weeks away.
Jack Scatter is an ordinary teenager with the normal concerns that come with life in a small farming community: school, his job, and a long-distance relationship with Sarah. Sarah Rogers is smart, ambitious, and wants a role in saving her world's endangered species. But their home towns are on Cirrus, a planet-sized space station, and Newton's prophecy threatens both worlds.
When Jack and Sarah uncover a scheme by Pieter Reynard, a Traveller, to bring about his own version of the apocalypse, they're launched on an adventure that spans two worlds. While Jack runs, trying to stay ahead of Pieter's thugs, Sarah uncovers more secrets and becomes a target. But Pieter is not the only Traveller, and not the only one plotting.
The final...

Now's the Time

Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:41:56 +0200

With his highly-praised sequence of novels featuring Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, John Harvey created not only an unforgettable character of great depth and complexity, but a realistic and richly-peopled inner-city world of struggling heroes and feckless villains. Gathered together in Now's The Time are twelve short stories featuring Resnick. From old foes to upstart pretenders, the city and the jazz-soaked, night-time world of Charlie Resnick come vividly to life.

Ash & Bone

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:14:12 +0200

Still Waters cr-9

Mon, 17 Nov 1997 07:13:26 +0200

Off Minor cr-4

Sun, 17 Nov 1991 07:13:24 +0200

Easy Meat cr-8

Sun, 17 Nov 1996 00:34:27 +0200

Good Bait

Sun, 17 Nov 2002 00:34:26 +0200

Neon Madman

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 18:41:55 +0200

A Darker Shade of Blue

Thu, 17 Nov 1994 00:34:27 +0200

Fedora

Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:14:15 +0200

Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Short Story Dagger, 2014.Private investigator Jack Kiley is persuaded to look into an old relationship between a photographer and a model with disastrous results.Includes the opening chapter of John Harvey's new Resnick novel Darkness, Darkness - 'A brilliant, important and moving book about the legacy of 1984, and where and who we are now.' David Peace - out in paperback on 25 September.

Cold Light cr-6

Fri, 17 Nov 2000 00:34:27 +0200

Wasted Years

Sat, 20 Nov 1993 10:01:20 +0200

A series of brutal robberies takes Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick back ten years. To a time when a rash of very similar incidents left him face to face with a frenzied sociopath who nearly brought his life to a premature end - and to a time when his wife ran off with her lover, putting paid to their marriage and leaving him with a emotional wound that still hasn't healed. Now with the lookalike robberies escalating in violence, Resnick fights to track the men down before they kill, just as he fights to stem the poignant memories that threaten to overwhelm him...

Review

"Harvey writes better crime novels than anyone in the world. His books transcend genre." -- The Denver Post
"In Wasted Years, Harvey deftly weaves past and present, blending the strands of character and story to form the kind of rich tapestry that lifts the police procedural into the realm of the mainstream novel." -- Sue Grafton
"Like Thelonius Monk and other jazz greats who make the mood music in his books,John Harvey likes to play with form. In Wasted Years, the fifth police procedural in a haunting series set in the industrial wasteland of Nottingham, the British novelist switches time frames like song keys to tell a story about the cold hopes and lost chances that breed crime in the red-brick provinces." -- The New York Times Book Review
"The prose is pared down and tersely elliptical-Wasted Years wastes littlelanguage. But, as always with Harvey, less is bountifully more." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author

John Harvey just completed Last Rights, the final volume in his Charlie Resnick series, which Holt will publish in May. Six of the ten in the series are now available in Owl editions.

Off Minor

Tue, 19 Nov 1991 18:41:56 +0200

When two little girls are abducted from their homes and murdered, investigating police detective Charlie Resnick attempts to find out who is to blame. Reprint.

From Publishers Weekly

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.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Kirkus Reviews

In the down-at-heels northern England city where lonely, divorced Detective-Inspector Charlie Resnick lives and works, the body of six-year-old Gloria Summers--missing for more than two months--has at last been found. Now, however, little Emily Morrison has also vanished, raising the specter of a similar end in the minds of her newly married father and stepmother--as well as a sense of urgency in the men of Resnick's precinct as they diligently pursue every lead. One of those leads, activated by Resnick's intuition, bites pay dirt, but Emily's fate remains hidden until the final surprising pages. A score of vivid characters move in and out of the action-- some brave and stoic, some frayed and hostile, some bravely human- -but Resnick, in past outings a solid, compelling focus amidst all the angst, is a weaker presence here, making this fourth in the series (beginning with Lonely Hearts, 1989) very slightly less than the author's best. Still, it's a powerful, first-class police procedural. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Last Rites cr-10

Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:13:24 +0200