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  • Bibliography:
    46 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    November 2021
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Full Series List in Order

A Charlie Resnick Mystery

1 - Lonely Hearts (May-1989)
2 - Rough Treatment (Jun-1990)
3 - Cutting Edge (1991)
4 - Off Minor (Apr-1992)
5 - Wasted Years (Jun-1993)
6 - Cold Light (Aug-1995)
7 - Living Proof (Jun-1995)
8 - Easy Meat (Sep-1996)
9 - Still Water (Oct-1997)
10 - Blue Lightning (1998)
11 - Last Rites (May-1999)
12 - Cold In Hand (May-2008)
The Complete Resnick Short Stories (Jul-1999)

The Chronicles of Cirrus

1 - Broken Sky (May-2021)
2 - Blue Spell (Nov-2021)

DCI Karen Shields

Good Bait (Jan-2013)

A Frank Elder Mystery

1 - Flesh & Blood (Jun-2004)
2 - Ash & Bone (Jul-2005)
3 - Darkness & Light (Jul-2006)

Hart the Regulator

1 - Cherokee Outlet (May-2013)
2 - Blood Trail (Sep-2013)

Scott Mitchell

1 - Amphetamines and Pearls (1976)
2 - The Geranium Kiss (Jan-2015)
3 - Junkyard Angel (1977)
4 - Neon Madman (1977)

Multi-Author Series List

Bibliomysteries

29 - Dead Dames Don't Sing (May-2017)

Book List in Order: 46 titles



  • A private investigator stumbles upon the body of a female singer in this mystery from an author praised by Elmore Leonard for his “clean and simple” prose. When Scott Mitchell loved Candi Carter, her name was just plain Ann. Back then she was a h...



  • Scott Mitchell, Britain’s toughest private eye, finds himself marked for murder in this gritty hardboiled mystery. In a freezing London flat, Scott Mitchell fights to stay warm. His thermos is empty and his hands are numb, but he keeps his vigil fo...



  • The final entry in the groundbreaking series of hardboiled British mysteries starring Scott Mitchell, the toughest detective to ever call London home. The ledge isn’t quite wide enough for Scott Mitchell to stand, but he’ll have to make it work. ...






  • Set in 1967, the Colonels have seized power in Greece and are brutally determined to hold on to it. Injustice and violence stalk the land. Vangelis, an idealist young lawyer, and his wife Chryssa are drawn slowly into the resistance movement....





  • The first major case for Charlie Resnick and his team concerns a number of increasingly serious attacks on women who have been using the "Lonely Hearts" column of the local newspaper. Simultaneously, Resnick becomes involved with Rachel Chaplin, the ...







  • Harold Roy races against time to find the thieves responsible for a break-in at his home and to recover the missing kilo of cocaine stolen from his house, before its owner discovers that the drugs are missing...



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    A savage attack with a scalpel ... leaves Dr. Tim Fletcher's body badly slashed in a deserted walkway. The first victim in a series of brutal assaults on hospital staff -- assaults that soon turn deadly. As panic grips the city, it's up to Detectiv...



  • The author of the Frank Elder Mystery, Body & Soul, delivers “a powerful, first-class police procedural” (Kirkus Reviews).   Raymond Cooke is looking for revenge, not corpses. It’s been six weeks since the gang of four young pu...



  • An uncannily familiar series of crimes in England's Midlands sends police detective Charlie Resnick back to his past, to a time when his marriage and his city fell apart, and when he confronted a similar crime spree. Reprint....



  • In the North of England, a cop hunts for a homicidal woman: “Smartly paced, slyly humorous, unsentimental about police work . . . one of his best” (Kirkus Reviews).   Although the cop who finds the man in Alfreton Road desc...



  • Struggling through the daily beat during the Christmas season, police inspector Charlie Resnick investigates a woman's disappearance and realizes that it is linked to a sinister chain of events. Reprint....



  • A teenage thug’s apparent suicide reveals a vicious cycle of violence: “No one does the British police procedural better” (Manchester Evening News).   Nicky Snape likes robbing old people. The fifteen-year-old snatches shirts f...



  • When the battered body of a young woman is discovered, the second corpse that is found, Charlie Resnick becomes involved in the case because his lover had been acquainted with the victim and her abusive husband and investigates the brutality that som...




  • Lorraine Preston’s brother, Michael, was sent down for life for the murder of their father -- and now he’s being allowed out for their mother’s funeral. A hardened criminal, Michael Preston is the last person Resnick wants back on the streets...







  • Sloane's past in New York's bohemian 1950s is never far from the slippery surface of his present in this stylish noir tale from John Harvey, the award-winning novelist touted by the London Times as "the King of Crime." Nearing sixty, Sloane has ...



  • Desire leaves a man destroyed ... A young girl's curiosity reveals secrets better left hidden ... Jealousy drives a woman mad ... An obsession with numbers precipitates a deadly revenge ... Ambition leads to a curious exchange ... An uncanny likeness...



  • Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder has fled to the Cornish coast, but he can't escape the past. Susan Blacklock would be thirty now. But fourteen years ago she disappeared, and the case has gone unsolved -- though Elder had his suspects. Now, wi...



  • What actions must a boy take to become a man? One might use a razor to clear his first growth of beard, while another could employ it as a weapon -- both actions might be a fitting rite of passage. In these dazzling works of fiction, seventeen mas...



  • In the depths of his Cornish hideaway, retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder’s solitary life is disturbed by a call from his ex-wife, telling him his seventeen-year-old daughter, Katherine, is running wild, unbalanced by the abduction and rape he...



  • Frank Elder, shut up at his hideaway in Cornwall, receives a call from his ex-wife, Joanne. Her friend Jennie, a brisk businesswoman, is concerned for her sister, Claire, who seems to have gone missing. As there are no signs of foul play, the police ...



  • Will's first thought when he saw the man's face: it was like a glove that had been pulled inside out. When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker are called upon to investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay Cambrid...



  • WHAT IS IT LIKE TO CORNER A MURDERER? TO UNMASK A HIDDEN KILLER? In The Blue Religion, bestselling author Michael Connelly brings together nineteen original stories from some of today's greatest crime writers to reveal the thrills and dangers of b...



  • “A welcome return for Nottingham Inspector Charlie Resnick, who’s been absent from novel-length crime-fighting since Last Rites.” -- Kirkus Reviews   It’s Valentine’s Day, and a dispute between rival gangs leaves a teenage gi...






  • International bestselling author Peter Robinson turns his razor-sharp instinct for crime writing to this unique anthology featuring the cream of crime fiction. With a selection of 15 stories featuring established bestsellers and new voices, The Pengu...



  • Four days after Nick Harman's seventh birthday, his father climbed onto a bridge high above four lanes of traffic, paused, then threw himself to his death on the road below. Nine years later, Nick lives with his mother on a tough housing estate in No...



  • The stunning new title from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and Sunday Times bestselling author, John Harvey.

    Ruth and Simon Graham’s rare romantic break is shattered by devastating news: their daughter, Heather, on holiday in Cornwall wit...





  • John Harvey has been described as the master of British crime fiction: From the mean streets of London to the jazz clubs and clip joints of Soho, this is a world of broken families, revenge killings, and prostitution; drugs, guns, and corruption; a w...



  • Jack Kiley, a professional footballer turned private investigator, is hired to track down a solider who has gone missing while on leave from Iraq. The soldier's mind is disturbed by what he has seen and done in the war, and he is armed. There are fea...



  • 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...



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  • The brainchild of Amazon Kindle Number One bestselling western writers Mike Stotter and Ben Bridges, PICCADILLY PUBLISHING is dedicated to reissuing classic fiction from Yesterday and Today!BLOOD TRAILThe trickle of blood from a scalped corpse in a d...



  • Thirty years ago, the British Miners’ Strike threatened to tear England apart, turning neighbor against neighbor, husband against wife, father against son―enmities which still smolder. Charlie Resnick, recently promoted to Detective Inspector...






  • Scott Mitchell, the toughest private detective in England, is about to find that kidnapping and murder go hand in hand in this classic hardboiled mystery. Even over the telephone, Scott Mitchell can tell the caller is more beautiful than any woman he...



  • The stylish tale of a dead poet, a rediscovered pulp novel, and a lovely lady with a story to sell from the author of the Charles Resnick Mysteries. Ex"Metropolitan Police Officer Jack Kiley spent his career discerning fact from fiction. Now a priv...



  • Going Down Slow includes seven short stories, two of which feature Charlie Resnick and three feature Jack Kiley....



  • From a master of modern crime writing comes the landmark last novel in the exemplary Frank Elder mystery series. When his estranged daughter Katherine suddenly appears on his doorstep, Elder knows that something is badly wrong. The breakdown of...



  • 1940. Like most of his London contemporaries, 15 year-old Jack Riley is evacuated into the countryside to escape a city menaced by bombardment. But Jack manages to escape farm life and return to London where he joins his father, an auxiliary fireman ...



  • Sir Isaac Newton predicted the world would end before 2090.He was right.Jack Scatter is an ordinary teenager with the normal concerns that come with life in a small farming community: school, his job, and a long-distance relationship with Sarah. Sara...



  • There's no such thing as magic. But that doesn't mean we can't use it.Jack Scatter knows that the mysterious force he wields has a technological source, and so does the man who's trying to kill him. But he'll need to tame dragons -- both real and psy...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Harvey has published 46 books.

John Harvey does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blue Spell, was published in November 2021.

The first book by John Harvey, Amphetamines and Pearls, was published in January 1976.

Yes. John Harvey has 6 series.