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Charlie Resnick
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 Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m .... The first novel in the series, ''Lonely Hearts'' was published in 1989, and was named by ''The Times'' as one of the "100 Greatest Crime Novels of the Century". What was believed to be the final novel in the series, ''Last Rites'', was published in 1998. However, in an interview on BBC Four on 7 November 2006 John Harvey mentioned that he was working on a new novel in the Resnick series. In an interview with the BBC on 20 October 2007, it was confirmed that the novel would be entitled ''Cold in Hand'' and woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harvey (author)
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. Writing career Harvey has published over 100 books under various names, and has worked on scripts for TV and radio. He started writing in the 1970s when he produced a variety of pulp fiction including westerns. He also ran Slow Dancer Press from 1977 to 1999 publishing poetry. His own poetry has been published in a number of chapbooks and two collections, "Ghosts of a Chance" and "Bluer Than This", published by Smith/Doorstop. In 2014 Smith/Doorstop published a New & Selected Poems, "Out of Silence". The first Resnick novel, ''Lonely Hearts'', was published in 1989, and was named by The Times as one of the ''100 Greatest Crime Novels of the Century''. Harvey brought the series to an end in 2014 with ''Darkness, Darkness'', which he dramatised for the stage and which was produced at Nottingham P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |