Synopses & Reviews
The battered body of a young woman is found floating in the still water of a city canal. Police suspect a serial killer, which makes it a case for the Serious Crime Squad. Not Charlie Resnicks case, until the friend of his lover, Hannah is murdered. Hannah convinces Resnick that her friend was murdered by her abusive husband, not by some anonymous killer. Investigating the murder, Resnick runs head-on into deeply disturbing questions about the nature of love, about the relationship of abuser and abused, and about the complicity in our own destruction.
About the Author
John Harvey is the author of the richly-praised sequence of ten 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. In 2004, William Heinemann published Flesh and Blood, the first novel featuring retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder. He is also a poet, dramatist and occasional broadcaster.