Book description
Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours
later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes
hitting the city. Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the
obvious prime suspect and he's just been picked off the Aberdeen train
and put straight into custody.
But then another woman is sexually abused and throttled to death.
And suddenly there appears to be one too many connections between
these seemingly unrelated crimes.
Detective Inspector Resnick is sure that the two murders are the
work of one sadistic killer - two lonely hearts broken by one maniac.
And it's up to Resnick to put the record straight - and put the
bastard where he belongs.
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
