Darkness, Darkness – A Novel (Resnick) - Softcover

Harvey, John

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9781605988740: Darkness, Darkness – A Novel (Resnick)

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ISBN 10: 160598874X ISBN 13: 9781605988740

Publisher: Pegasus, 2017

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Charlie Resnick, recently promoted to Detective Inspector and ambivalent, at best, about some of the police tactics used in the Strike, had run a surveillance-gathering unit at the heart of the dispute.

Now, in virtual retirement, the discovery of the body of a young woman who disappeared during the Strike brings Resnick back to the front line to assist in the investigation into the woman's murder--forcing him to confront his past--in what will assuredly be his last case . . . as well as John's Harvey's final Charlie Resnick novel.

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Review:

Harvey yet again reveals the elegant prose, fluent touch and emotional grasp of a supreme craftsman.

Every reader of contemporary mystery fiction should be acquainted with this outstanding series and its jazz-loving protagonist whose stories limn the changing world around him. Increasingly, Charlie is an observer more than an actor, but he remains an unforgettable creation.

The Resnick novels remain one of the high points in the history of crime fiction.

John Harvey writes the way we all wish we could write. His stories are filled with the blood of true character.--Michael Connelly

Forget what you had planned for today the new Harvey novel comes first.

Crime fiction at its best.--George Pelecanos

No one in Britain is writing better crime fiction.

The final novel in his masterly series featuring Inspector Charlie Resnick. We'd hate to lose this Nottingham policeman whose love of jazz distinguishes him as the mellowest of detectives. The elegiac tone struck in this melancholy story makes it clear that Harvey has no intention of giving Resnick a reprieve.--Marilyn Stasio

Harvey's books have hogged the critics' superlatives, even being compared by Elmore Leonard, no less, with Graham Greene, no less. [His] great gifts for sharp but compassionate characterisation, and flashback chapters set during the miners' strike remind us that he is often at his best when he is angriest. [H]is books are ultimately cathartic.

Harvey's books are a joy because he excels in every aspect of crime fiction, including adroit plotting, sharp dialogue, subtle characterizations, and an underlying, shimmering intelligence.--Patrick Anderson

Book Description:

The final DI Charlie Resnick novel, from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and Sunday Times bestselling author of Cold in Hand.

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