Book description
A collection of short stories from the Cartier Diamond Dagger
winner and Sunday Times bestseller.
John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime and in
A Darker Shade of Blue he has collected together some of his
very best writing.
From the killing fields of the East Midlands to the mean streets of
London, from the jazz clubs and clip joints of Soho to the barren
fenlands of East Anglia, this is a world of broken families and
run-down estates, revenge killings and prostitution, drugs, guns and
corruption; a world of overstretched police forces and underpaid
detectives, men and women who strive nonetheless for a kind of
justice; a world in which everything, even friendship, has a price.
Featuring characters like Frank Elder, who tried to turn his back on
police work and failed; Jack Kiley, ex-copper and one-time
professional footballer, now a London-based PI; and the renowned jazz
loving and much-loved Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, John
Harvey's finely-crafted vignettes perfectly encapsulate life in the
badlands of modern Britain.
John Harvey is the author of the richly praised Charlie Resnick
novels, the first of which, Lonely Hearts, was named by The
Times as one of the '100 Best Crime Novels of the Century'. His
first novel featuring Frank Elder, Flesh and Blood, won the CWA
Silver Dagger in 2004, and a Barry Award for the Best British Crime
Novel published in the US in 2004. In 2007 John Harvey was awarded the
CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger and in 2009 he was awarded an honorary
degree, Doctor of Letters, by the University of Nottingham.
To find out more about John Harvey visit his website at: www.
mellotone. co. uk
