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Frank Elder, retired from the Nottinghamshire Major Crime Unit, has retreated to remote Cornwall. No matter how far he's run or how escapist his reading, terrible dreams continue to haunt him. When a rapist-murderer he helped put in prison is released on parole and another teenaged girl disappears, Elder returns as a consultant on the case. Narrator Gordon Griffin develops Elder's character with subtlety and grace, particularly the bewildering relationship shared with his own 16-year-old daughter. Griffin is stunning when portraying Elder's confusion with the ex-wife who betrayed him, and he handles each of the fully developed secondary characters with finesse. John Harvey, winner of the Sherlock Award, offers a dark, unsentimental, and expertly crafted story that reveals the inner lives of authority figures, criminals, and victims alike. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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"John Harvey is lights out one of the best and with this book the word is going to spread far and wide."
—Michael Connelly
"Exquisite writing and utterly convincing characters ...the very top echelons of British crime writing."
—The Times
"A sinister thriller ...one of Britain’s leading masters of atmosphere."
—Guardian
"Flesh and Blood grips til it hurts."
—Reginald Hill
"A major novel: thrilling, urgent, important."
—Literary Review
—Michael Connelly
"Exquisite writing and utterly convincing characters ...the very top echelons of British crime writing."
—The Times
"A sinister thriller ...one of Britain’s leading masters of atmosphere."
—Guardian
"Flesh and Blood grips til it hurts."
—Reginald Hill
"A major novel: thrilling, urgent, important."
—Literary Review
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing, Nov 18 2010
By David Dutch - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Flesh and Blood (Paperback)
I was disappointed for after reading the blurb on the front of the book by Mark Billingham I thought that I was in for a gripping and powerfully atmospheric thriller. I was lured into buying a copy to see if Harvey was in the same mould as Tom Cain certainly the reviews on the back cover would indicate he was.
Instead I found a story line that was drawn out - a retired detective inspector cannot leave an unsolved disappearance of a sixteen year old girl many years before alone and then came the release, on licence, of the man he thought had been party to her disappearance but was unable to prove at the time. Haunted by a recurring nightmare he decided to retrace his steps when first trying to solve the mystery and found not only himself but his estranged wife and daughter becoming entwined in the dangerous pursuit of this known killer.
Was the nightmare a clue to the unsolved disappearance or a prophetic vision of what was to become.
At times the storyline was good but personally I did not find it a page turner keeping me awake until I sought to solve the mystery before the end of the story.
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