John Harvey
Author
Series
Charlie Resnick mysteries volume 1
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A serial killer stalks the women of Nottingham in the first Charlie Resnick Mystery—“A quantum leap for the police procedural” (Andrew Vachss, author of the Burke series).
Shirley Peters was murdered in her own home. A directionless young woman with a fondness for cheap red wine and a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, her death is just another in the files of the Nottingham detective’s bureau....
Shirley Peters was murdered in her own home. A directionless young woman with a fondness for cheap red wine and a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, her death is just another in the files of the Nottingham detective’s bureau....
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Thirty years ago, the Miners' Strike threatened to tear the country apart, turning neighbour against neighbour, husband against wife, father against son - enmities which smoulder still. Resnick, recently made up to inspector, and ambivalent at best about some of the police tactics, had run an information gathering unit at the heart of the dispute. Now, in virtual retirement, and still grieving over the violent death of his former partner, the discovery...
3) Good bait
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a 17-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime Unit. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn't know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organized crime which infiltrates almost every aspect of London society. Several hundred miles away in Cornwall, Detective Inspector Trevor Cordon is stirred from...
4) Cold in hand
Author
Series
Charlie Resnick mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
It's Valentine's Day, and a dispute between rival gangs leaves a teenage girl dead. Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, nearing retirement, is hauled back to the front line to help deal with the fallout. But when the dead girl's father seeks to lay the blame on Resnick's partner, DI Lynn Kellogg, Resnick finds the line between the personal and the professional dangerously blurred. Meanwhile, the Serious and Organised Crime Agency starts to show a...
9) Body & soul
Author
Series
Frank Elder mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Frank Elder struggles to protect his estranged daughter and prove her innocence after her breakup with a controversial artist ends in murder.
10) Ash & bone
Author
Series
Frank Elder mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Harvest Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder struggles with guilt when his teenage daughter's behavior deteriorates following a rape that he could have prevented, while Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch becomes suspicious that she is being stalked.
11) Rough treatment
Author
Series
Charlie Resnick mysteries volume 2
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
12) Living proof
Author
Series
Charlie Resnick mysteries volume 7
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
13) Still We Rise
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1972, decades of frustration and protest came to a head when Prime Minister William 'Billy' McMahon, in his long awaited speech on the 'Aboriginal question,' dismissed any hope of land rights and provoked outrage.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1958.
Language
English
Description
Since the English translation first appeared in 1923, Rudolf Otto's volume has established itself as a classic in the field of religious philosophy. It offers an in-depth inquiry into the non-rational factor in the idea of the divine and its relation to the rational.
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press, in association with No Exit Press
Pub. Date
c2018.
Language
English
Description
The twenty brand new crime stories in this book have been specially commissioned to celebrate the tenth anniversary of CrimeFest, described by the Guardian as "one of the 50 best festivals in the world." Contributors come from around the world and include the legendary Maj Sjöwall who, together with partner Per Wahlöö, was the originator of Nordic noir. The editors are Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller. Martin Edwards is responsible for many award-winning...
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Members of the Detection Club, the most prestigious group of crime writers in the world, celebrate the eightieth birthday of their former president--the original king of cozy crime, Simon Brett--with this stunning collection of all-new short stories. A long-married crime-writing couple plot murder most horrid, with a jaw-dropping twist . . . A group of school friends dig up a long-buried dark secret . . . A widower joins a local amdram society, with...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
Formats
Description
Members of the Detection Club, the most prestigious group of crime writers in the world, celebrate the eightieth birthday of their former president – the original king of cozy crime, Simon Brett – with this stunning collection of all-new short stories.
A long-married crime-writing couple plot murder most horrid, with a jaw-dropping twist . . . A group of school friends dig
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