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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. Writing career. Harvey has published over 100 books under various names, and has worked on scripts for TV and radio.
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- Crime fiction
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- Charlie Resnick series
John Harvey is a prolific writer of crime fiction and poetry, and has also been awarded the 2007 Diamond Dagger Award, awarded for sustained excellence in the field of crime writing. Previous winners include P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, John LeCarre, Colin Dexter and Ian Rankin.
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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Police officer. Nationality. British. 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.
- Lonely Hearts
- John Harvey
- Darkness, Darkness
- Tom Wilkinson
John Harvey has 216 books on Goodreads with 35092 ratings. John Harvey’s most popular book is Lonely Hearts (Charlie Resnick, #1).
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'. He is also a poet, dramatist and broadcaster.After living in Nottingham for a good number of years, he has now ...
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12 primary works • 13 total works. Charlie Resnick, jazz-loving police detective in Nottingham, England: Book 1. Lonely Hearts. by John Harvey. 3.80 · 2,507 Ratings · 133 Reviews · published 1989 · 38 editions. Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is foun… Want to Read. Rate it: Book 2. Rough Treatment. by John Harvey.
