Book description
'Forty-eight hours, that's what they reckon, isn't it? Forty-eight
hours. If you don't find them in that, likely they're sodding dead...'
A cabbie's just been beaten up, there's a drunk and disorderly in
the interview room and a possible child abuser on the way in. Nothing
unusual there, then, just a pretty normal Christmas holiday for DI
Resnick and his team.
Normal, that is, until Dana Matthieson calls to report her flatmate,
Nancy, missing.
Dana's had a pretty grim Christmas herself: she's been sexually
harassed by her boss, and may even have lost her job as well as her
friend. Pretty soon the police have proof that Nancy was kidnapped,
and then - as the New Year celebrations wind down - the first tape
arrives, and Resnick knows they're dealing with a dangerous psychopath.
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
