John Harvey: 114 books

The brooding British detective returns in this “moody revenge tragedy . . . Harvey creates characters of astonishing psychological diversity” (The New York Times Book Review).   Karen Archer understands that women who date doctors should expect tardiness. The last time she invited Tim...

Former cop Frank Elder is drawn out of retirement when his ex-wife asks him to look into the disappearance of her friend Jennie’s sister Claire in Nottingham. Elder reluctantly returns to the city where his family disintegrated. Elder uncovers sexual secrets of Claire’s that take Jennie...

Scott Mitchell, Britain’s toughest private eye, finds himself marked for murder in this gritty hardboiled mystery. In a freezing London flat, Scott Mitchell fights to stay warm. His thermos is empty and his hands are numb, but he keeps his vigil for the best reason in the world: He needs...

The final entry in the groundbreaking series of hardboiled British mysteries starring Scott Mitchell, the toughest detective to ever call London home. The ledge isn’t quite wide enough for Scott Mitchell to stand, but he’ll have to make it work. He keeps his balance just long enough to...

In the North of England, a cop hunts for a homicidal woman: “Smartly paced, slyly humorous, unsentimental about police work . . . one of his best” (Kirkus Reviews). Although the cop who finds the man in Alfreton Road describes him as “absolutely stark bollock naked,” that is not quite...

A Northern England cop tries to track down an escaped convict: “One of the finest police procedural series around” (Publishers Weekly). It has been thirteen years since Michael Preston killed his father, and now his mother is dead too. Halfway through his twenty-four year sentence, Michael...

A Christmas kidnapping puts British detective Charlie Resnick in the hot seat. “Cold Light is just about flawless” (The Washington Post Book World).   Working at the Nottingham public housing authority is miserable, but Nancy Phelan knows that the tenants she services are worse off than...

From a master of modern crime writing comes the landmark last novel in the exemplary Frank Elder mystery series. When his estranged daughter Katherine suddenly appears on his doorstep, Elder knows that something is badly wrong. The breakdown of her relationship with a controversial artist...

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...

A teenage thug’s apparent suicide reveals a vicious cycle of violence: “No one does the British police procedural better” (Manchester Evening News).   Nicky Snape likes robbing old people. The fifteen-year-old snatches shirts from stores, purses from his teachers, and as much money as...

**A willing victim complicates a case for Detective Charlie Resnick, “**one of the most fully realized characters in modern crime fiction” (Sue Grafton). Maria Roy is in the tub, musing on her hatred for her movie producer husband, when Grabianski and Grice break into her house. Though...

The author of the Frank Elder Mystery, Body & Soul, delivers **“**a powerful, first-class police procedural” (Kirkus Reviews). Raymond Cooke is looking for revenge, not corpses. It’s been six weeks since the gang of four young punks attacked him, since the one with the knife slit...

A detective’s dark past meets his violent present in “[a] rich tapestry that lifts the police procedural into the realm of the mainstream novel” (Sue Grafton). It starts with five professional thieves. At their first robbery, they press a sawed-off shotgun against a bank manager’s head,...