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'No one in Britain is writing better crime fiction' THE TIMES 'One of our most accomplished writers in any genre' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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The compelling new novel from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and Sunday Times bestseller.
When a 17-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime Unit. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn't know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organised crime which infiltrates almost every aspect of London society.
Several hundred miles away in Cornwall, DI Trevor Cordon is stirred from his day-to-day duties by another tragic London fatality. Travelling to the capital, determined to establish the cause of death and trace the deceased's daughter -- an old acquaintance from Newlyn -- Cordon becomes entangled in a complicated situation of his own. A situation much closer to Karen's case than either of them will ever know.
Brilliantly plotted and filled with rich, subtle characters, John Harvey's latest novel reveals him once again as a masterful writer with his finger firmly on the pulse of twenty-first century crime.
When a 17-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime Unit. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn't know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organised crime which infiltrates almost every aspect of London society.
Several hundred miles away in Cornwall, DI Trevor Cordon is stirred from his day-to-day duties by another tragic London fatality. Travelling to the capital, determined to establish the cause of death and trace the deceased's daughter -- an old acquaintance from Newlyn -- Cordon becomes entangled in a complicated situation of his own. A situation much closer to Karen's case than either of them will ever know.
Brilliantly plotted and filled with rich, subtle characters, John Harvey's latest novel reveals him once again as a masterful writer with his finger firmly on the pulse of twenty-first century crime.
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Another winner from John Harvey, Feb 17 2012
By N. P. Vance - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Good Bait (Paperback)
Once again, John Harvey has created a set of compelling characters and set them in a plot that is complex, but not too complex to follow. You've read books where you have to keep going back to refresh your memory of what was happening in that other plot line. Not with a Harvey novel and not here. He has a great sense of timing, and each part of this book moves seamlessly in parallel with the other. I still miss the Charlie Resnick books; haven't cottoned to his later characters as much. I wouldn't mind seeing more of these two and their friends.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Among the Few, May 20 2012
By Ms Terry "A. Vidreader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Good Bait (Paperback)
There are a thousand crime writers who can spin a good yarn and create an engaging character. Then there is a smaller band of skillful and gifted writers whose genre is crime - prominent amongst them John Harvey. His character portraits are finely drawn and bitingly real and his plots are fast spinning vortexes that suck you in and shake you down. Police Inspectors Karen Shields and Trevor Cordon are in London and Cornwall, young and old, black and white - as different as chalk and cheese - but in Good Bait they run on parallel tracks towards a collision point you always know is coming in a rotten world of gang violence, petty revenge and organized crime. Sublime.
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