A series of brutal robberies takes Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick back ten years. To a time when a rash of very similar incidents left him face to face with a frenzied sociopath who nearly brought his life to a premature end - and to a time when his wife ran off with her lover, putting paid to their marriage and leaving him with a emotional wound that still hasn't healed. Now with the lookalike robberies escalating in violence, Resnick fights to track the men down before they kill, just as he fights to stem the poignant memories that threaten to overwhelm him...
Review
"Harvey writes better crime novels than anyone in the world. His books transcend genre." -- The Denver Post
"In Wasted Years, Harvey deftly weaves past and present, blending the strands of character and story to form the kind of rich tapestry that lifts the police procedural into the realm of the mainstream novel." -- Sue Grafton
"Like Thelonius Monk and other jazz greats who make the mood music in his books,John Harvey likes to play with form. In Wasted Years, the fifth police procedural in a haunting series set in the industrial wasteland of Nottingham, the British novelist switches time frames like song keys to tell a story about the cold hopes and lost chances that breed crime in the red-brick provinces." -- The New York Times Book Review
"The prose is pared down and tersely elliptical-Wasted Years wastes littlelanguage. But, as always with Harvey, less is bountifully more." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer
About the Author
John Harvey just completed Last Rights, the final volume in his Charlie Resnick series, which Holt will publish in May. Six of the ten in the series are now available in Owl editions.