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John Harvey (born 21 December 1938 in London) is a British author of crime fiction most famous for his series of jazz-influenced Charlie Resnick novels, based in the City of Nottingham. He is also a screenwriter and poet.
John Harvey is a famous British writer of crime fiction, and he is also the writer of a series called Charlie Resnick. Mr. Harvey started out his writing career by writing Western novels with many co-authors such as Terry Harknett, Laurence James, and Angus Wells.
John Harvey (born 21 December 1938 in London) is a British author of crime fiction most famous for his series of jazz-influenced Charlie Resnick novels, based in the City of Nottingham. Harvey has also published over 90 books under various names, and has worked on scripts for TV and radio.
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John Harvey has 225 books on Goodreads with 35243 ratings. John Harvey’s most popular book is Lonely Hearts (Charlie Resnick, #1).
- Lonely Hearts. 3.80 · 2499 Ratings · 134 Reviews · published 1989 · 14 editions. Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is foun… Shelve Lonely Hearts.
- Rough Treatment. 3.81 · 729 Ratings · 58 Reviews · published 1990 · 38 editions. A series of house break-ins that are too neat to b… Shelve Rough Treatment.
- Cutting Edge. 3.87 · 729 Ratings · 63 Reviews · published 1991 · 38 editions. As the staff members of a large teaching hospital … Shelve Cutting Edge.
- Off Minor. 3.90 · 608 Ratings · 52 Reviews · published 1991 · 40 editions. Little Gloria Summers' body has been found, hidden… Shelve Off Minor.
Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick is the protagonist of a series of twelve police procedural novels by British writer John Harvey, based in the city of Nottingham. Resnick is of Polish descent and loves sandwiches and jazz.
John Harvey is best known for his richly praised sequence of ten Nottingham-based Charlie Resnick novels, the first of which, Lonely Hearts, was recently chosen by The Times as one of the '100 Best Crime Novels of the Century'.
