JOHN HARVEY

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 keen interest in one of Kellogg's murder cases--a case the agency is convinced is linked to international gun running and people trafficking. Soon Kellogg is drawn into a web of deceit and betrayal that puts both her and Resnick in mortal danger. In "Cold In Hand," John Harvey brings back "one of the most fully realized characters in modern crime fiction" (Sue Grafton) in another heart-stopping procedural.

From one of Britain's leading crime writers — Flesh and Blood, Ash and Bone — comes his new book — sure to go straight to the top of the bestseller lists. Will's first thought when he saw the man's face: it was like a glove that had been pulled inside out. When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker are called upon to investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay Cambridge academic, their first thoughts are of an ill-judged sexual encounter, of rough trade gone wrong. But as their investigation widens, their attention focuses on the biography Bryan was writing about the life and death of fifties film star, Stella Leonard, whose death from drowning, when the car she was driving skidded mysteriously off a lonely Fenland road, uncannily echoed the climax of her most notorious film, Shattered Glass, With Bryan's journalist sister egging them on, and bringing herself into mortal danger as she conducts her own investigation, Will and Helen gradually peel away the secrets of a family blighted by a lust for wealth and power and its own perverted sexuality. From the Hardcover edition.

Wenn ihn seine Exfrau in Cornwall anruft, ist Frank Elders erste Angst immer, dass seiner Tochter Katherine wieder etwas zugestoßen ist. Dieses Mal geht es allerdings nur um die Schwester einer Freundin, die unter mysteriösen Umständen verschwunden ist. Claire Meecham, Mitte fünfzig, ist verwitwet und lebt sehr zurückgezogen. Aber der Schein trügt: Bei der Durchsuchung ihres Bungalows stößt Elder auf Sexspielzeug und findet heraus, dass sie über Chatrooms im Internet einige männliche Bekanntschaften gemacht hat. Bevor er nachforschen kann, erhält er jedoch einen weiteren Anruf: Claire ist wieder aufgetaucht. Schick gekleidet liegt sie in ihrem Bett, das Haar ist frisch gebürstet - doch sie ist tot. Als Elder sie so kunstvoll in Szene gesetzt daliegen sieht, kommt ihm sein erster Fall im Morddezernat Nottingham wieder in den Sinn, der nie aufgeklärt werden konnte. Hat der damalige Mörder erneut zugeschlagen?

En San Valentín Kellogg's Lynn fue herido y sobrevivió, pero el joven junto a ella había Befördert menos suerte ... a Detective Inspector Lynn tiene el rescate de una abusado de 15 años de edad fueron de repente a la pista de las personas y el contrabando de armas de pandillas ... El nuevo best-seller de Diamante Cartier Daga ganador del Premio John Harvey. Un miasma de asesinato y traición!

"Flesh and Bloodwas John Harvey's most successful book to date.Ash and Boneis set to surpass it, and nowDarkness and Lightwill bring Harvey to an even wider audience, confirming his status as "lights out one of the best." Michael Connelly

John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime and in A Darker Shade of Blue he has collected together some of his very best writing. In 2007 John Harvey was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger. John Harvey is a Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback. John Harvey has sold over 1 million copies of his books to date. We are publishing a collector´s edition in Heinemann simultaneously with the paperback.

Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick ist geschieden, übergewichtig, schlecht gekleidet und vernarrt in amerikanischen Jazz und seine vier Katzen. Er ist aber auch ein hervorragender Polizist mit viel Erfahrung. Als eine junge Frau erdrosselt aufgefunden wird, glaubt Resnick bald den Täter präsentieren zu können, denn ihr Ex-Freund hatte ihr schon oft mit dem Tod gedroht. Ein klassisches Eifersuchtsdrama? Doch ein zweiter, vergleichbarer Mord führt auf eine neue Spur: Der Mörder scheint seine Opfer in den Kontaktanzeigen der Tageszeitung zu suchen...

The stunning new title from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and "Sunday Times" bestselling author, John Harvey. Ruth and Simon Graham's rare romantic break is shattered by devastating news: their daughter, Heather, on holiday in Cornwall with a friend's family, has disappeared. The loss is more than they -- or their marriage -- can bear. But time does heal, and slowly Ruth builds a new life for herself, a new husband, Andrew, even a second daughter, Beatrice. The chances that history should repeat itself are next-to-impossible -- that is until, years later, a desperate phone call launches D.I. Will Grayson and his partner, D.S. Helen Walker, into an investigation which will test their professional and emotional resources to the very limit. Yet as Grayson becomes increasingly obsessed with a recently-released child abuser and Helen is drawn deeper into a destructive love affair with a married colleague, there is a real danger that their most testing investigation yet will slip fatefully through their hands.

Ruth and Simon Pierce's rare romantic break is shattered by devastating news: their daughter, Heather, on holiday in Cornwall with a friend's family, has disappeared...The loss is more than they - or their marriage - can bear. But time does heal and slowly Ruth builds a new life for herself with a new husband, Andrew - even a second daughter, Beatrice. The chances that history could repeat itself are next-to-impossible - that is until, years later, a desperate phone call launches DI Will Grayson and his partner, DS Helen Walker, into an investigation which will test their professional and emotional resources to the very limit. Yet as Grayson becomes increasingly obsessed with a recently released child-abuser and Helen is drawn deeper into a destructive love affair with a married colleague, there is a real danger that their most demanding investigation yet will slip fatefully through their hands.

Fifteen years ago Susan Blacklock disappeared. Although Detective Inspector Frank Elder has taken early retirement, the case still plagues his mind. Prime suspects, Shane Donald and Alan McKeirnan, were convicted a year later of the brutal rape and murder of a young girl, and now that Shane has been granted parole, Elder feels compelled to revisit the past. Then Shane disappears and another young girl is murdered. Elder's involvement is now crucial. Taunted by postcards from the killer, an increasingly desperate Elder battles to keep his estranged family from being drawn into the very heart of the crime...

She wore a gold dress, short-sleeved, its skirt full-length and slightly flared. He could see the faint indentation on her left hand, a pale circle of skin giving away the fact that, until recently, a wedding ring had been there. She looked peaceful, lying there on the bed, her arms resting easily together, the left hand on the right, a slender silver cross and chain encircling her neck, and not a wrinkle, not a fold of her dress out of place. And, perhaps, she truly was at peace. For she was dead. This was the sight that greeted Detective Inspector Frank Elder on his first case with the Serious Crimes Unit. His first case and never solved; no one was ever charged; the murderer never found. At liberty to walk the streets, and to kill again. Eight years later, Elder's estranged wife contacts him in his Cornish hideaway. Her friend's sister Claire - a quiet and withdrawn widow in her fifties - has mysteriously disappeared. Elder, reluctantly, agrees to dig around and see what he can find. Then Claire is found, dead, arranged with meticulous detail on her bed, and it doesn't take long for Elder to make the connection.It's obviously the work of the same unbalanced individual and, to find the killer, Elder must shine a light into the darkest recesses of human behaviour, the dark and twisted recesses of a disturbed human mind...

_________________________The first book in the DI Charlie Resnick series, from the master of British crime writingShirley Peters is dead. And its up to Resnick to put the record straight - and put th

'A war between the past and the present, in a place wracked by guilt and vengeance, a country torn into pieces. A brilliant, important and moving book about the legacy of 1984, and where and who we are now.' David Peace.The final DI Charlie Resnick novel, from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and Sunday Times bestselling author of Cold in Hand.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 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.

Cuando Stephen Bryan, un profesor universitario homosexual, aparece asesinado, los detectives de la policía Will Grayson y Helen Walker chocan con el obstáculo de la falta de pruebas. ¿Fue un crimen pasional, una relación ocasional de pesadilla o tiene algo que ver con la desaparición del ordenador portátil de Stephen y con la biografía que estaba escribiendo sobre la estrella cinematográfica de los años cincuenta Stella Leonard? La hermana de Stephen, Lesley, cree que su hermano había desenterrado la verdad que explicaba la misteriosa muerte de Stella y que la familia de ésta haría cualquier cosa por evitar que saliese a la luz, recurriendo incluso al asesinato.

When the take-down of a violent criminal goes badly wrong, something doesn't feel right to Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch. and her uneasiness is compounded by her belief that someone is following her home... Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's daughter, Katherine, is running wild. Elder's fears for his daughter are underscored by guilt - it was his involvement in a case that led directly to the abduction and rape which has so unbalanced Katherine's life. Persuaded out of retirement, Elder reopens a cold case which could have devastating repercussions for the crime squad itself. Elder's investigations take place against the backdrop of his increasing concern for his daughter. He must battle his own demons before he can uncover the truth.

»Harveys brillanter Stil und seine absolut überzeugenden Charaktere machen ihn zu einem Krimiautor ersten Ranges.« The Times Fünfzehn Jahre sind vergangen, seit Susan Blacklock, eine junge Frau aus Nottingham, spurlos verschwunden ist. Detective Frank Elder, frühzeitig pensioniert, geschieden und selbst Vater einer fast erwachsenen Tochter, geht der noch immer ungeklärte Fall nicht aus dem Sinn. Als nun Shane Donald, damals wegen Vergewaltigung und Mord an einer jungen Frau zu einer langen Haftstrafe verurteilt, freikommt, beschließt Elder, den Fall Susan Blacklock noch einmal aufzurollen. Kaum hat er mit seinen Ermittlungen begonnen, taucht Shane unter, und kurz darauf wird wieder eine junge Frau ermordet. Hat Shane etwas damit zu tun? Ist er vielleicht auch für Susans Verschwinden verantwortlich? Elders gründliche Nachforschungen scheinen den Mörder jedenfalls zu provozieren - äußerst dreist sendet der Unbekannte ihm Postkarten von überallher. Und dann passiert für Elder das Schrecklichste: seine Tochter Katherine kommt nach dem Lauftraining nicht nach Hause …

Frank Elder's last case could be the one that breaks him for good. The heavy manacles around the girl's wrists, perhaps not surprisingly, looked very much like the ones that had been found on the studio floor. For a moment, she had a vision of the chain to which they were attached being swung through the air, taking on force and speed before striking home. Then swung again. When his estranged daughter Katherine appears on his doorstep, ex-Detective Frank Elder knows that something is wrong. Katherine has long been troubled, and Elder has always felt powerless to help her. But now Katherine has begun to self-destruct; the breakdown of her affair with a controversial artist, known for his pornographic paintings, has sent her into a tailspin. But when the artist is found murdered in his studio, suspicion falls on Katherine. The vultures are circling. And as Elder struggles to protect his daughter and prove her innocence, the terrors of the past threaten them both once more... Daily Telegraph Book of the Ye

Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roys shabby mansion. And as his investigations lead him down the mean streets of the TV industry and an inner-city drugs ring, its obvious that more than one person is dancing on thin ice.