Book description
Short stories from the masters of crime fiction.
Little is perfect for the men in these seventeen crime stories and
nothing is straightforward. The worlds they inhabit are as different
as a deprived London housing estate and a rundown jazz joint in
Manhattan, but each of them is striving to determine what is right,
what will give them dignity, what will earn them self-respect. Some
succeed. Others fail.
In this acclaimed collection of stories, John Harvey has gathered
together some of the very best names in contemporary crime writing.
Together these writers answer what it is to be a father, a son, a man.
Authors are: Mark Billingham, Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly,
Jeffery Deaver, John Harvey, Reginald Hill. Bill James, Dennis Lehane,
Bill Moody, George P. Pelecanos, Peter Robinson, James Sallis, John
Straley, Brian Thompson, Don Winslow, Daniel Woodrell, and a novella
by Andrew Coburn.
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
