Good Bait
  • Published: 2 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099568599
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $22.99

Good Bait

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5 Jan 2012
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2 Jan 2013
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'No one in Britain is writing better crime fiction.' The Times. The compelling new paperback from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and Sunday Times bestselling author.

When a seventeen-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime team.

Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn't know is that her new case is tied 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, Cordon becomes entangled in a lethally complex situation of his own. A situation much closer to Karen's case than either of them can imagine ...
  • Published: 2 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099568599
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

John Harvey

John Harvey was born in London, where he now lives, while considering Nottingham his spiritual home. Initially a teacher of English & Drama, he has been a full-time writer for more than forty years. The first of his 12 volume Charlie Resnick series, Lonely Hearts was selected by The Times as one of the '100 Best Crime Novels of the Century' and the first Frank Elder novel, Flesh & Blood, won the CWA Silver Dagger in 2004. He was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in the crime genre in 2007, and his story, 'Fedora' won the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2014.

In addition to writing fiction, he has written and published poetry, running Slow Dancer Press for over twenty years; his New & Selected Poems, Out of Silence was published in 2014. He has adapted the work of Arnold Bennett, A. S. Byatt, Graham Greene and others for radio and television, and in 2017, his dramatisation of the final Resnick novel, Darkness, Darkness, was produced at Nottingham Playhouse. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Hertfordshire and Nottingham.

Also by John Harvey

Inspector Resnick
Body and Soul
Fedora
Darkness, Darkness
Now's The Time
Living Proof
Ash And Bone
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Praise for Good Bait

John Harvey is not just a fine crime novelist but a fine writer, and an adornment to his chosen genre. I devoured Good Bait in a day, and defy any reader to do otherwise.Great stuff.

John Connolly

Intricate, character-driven plotting and a large canvas full of telling detail lift this above the average police procedural.

Laura Wilson, Guardian

Good Bait proves that John Harvey is always prepared to tackle something new and ambitious.

Barry Forshaw, Independent

John Harvey returns in resounding form … Terrific plot and, in Karen Shields, a splendid new heroine.

Marcel Berlins, The Times

Harvey really does have his finger on the pulse of what is happening in the criminal underworld and some of the more deprived areas of London. There's a real sense, not just of what's happening, but of why it's happening and where there are gaps in the net. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

thebookbag.co.uk

What makes this book and John Harvey stand out is the writing and the characters... If you love crime you've got to read John Harvey.

bitethebook.com

Just when you thought that Harvey couldn’t get any better, up he pops with yet another brilliantly constructed, coolly written, chillingly sharp and utterly contemporary procedural.

Henry Sutton, Daily Mirror

John Harvey shows he is one of the best crime writers around: perhaps even Britain's answer to the great Elmore Leonard

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