Book description
When a man is found in the middle of Alfreton Road in the early hours
one Sunday morning, stark naked and bleeding heavily from a chest
wound, he is the latest in a series of viscous attacks on men.
Enquiries in the mean-streets of Nottingham's red-light district
have brought the investigations to a dead end.
Charlie Resnick is the man for the job. And as if he hasn't had
enough to deal with, he now has to provide police protection for a
celebrity at the annual crime convention - an author with some very
unpleasant 'fan' mail.
Chronically short-staffed as he is, it's a guessing game as to when
Resnick's lack of manpower will have fatal consequences.
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
