John Harvey: Lonely Hearts (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
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 social worker assigned to a family caught up in allegations of child abuse.

John Harvey's Charlie Resnick is British crime fiction's best-kept secret. In the ten novels Harvey wrote about Resnick before ending the series, he established his character as a believable ordinary policeman who investigated ordinary, everyday crime, rooted in the socioeconomic plight and drab lives of many people in the city of Nottingham.

Bloody Brits Press will reissue the entire Inspector Charles Resnick series in the next three seasons.

John Harvey: Lonely Hearts. Bywater Books, ISBN: 1932859446 (September, 2007), 288 p., $13.95.

John Harvey: Lonely Hearts (UK 2002)

From the Publisher:
Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the obvious prime suspect and he's just been picked off the Aberdeen train and put straight into custody.

But then another women is sexually abused and throttled to death. And suddenly there appears to be one too many connections between these seemingly unrelated crimes.

Detective Inspector Resnick is sure that the two murders are the work of one sadistic killer - two lonely hearts broken by one maniac. And it's up to Resnick to put the record straight - and put the bastard where he belongs.

John Harvey: Lonely Hearts. A Resnick Novel. Arrow, ISBN: 0099421526 (April, 2002), 357 p., £5.99.

John Harvey: Lonely Hearts (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
When Shirley Peters is found strangled, the cops pick up her common-law husband, a man with a police record, a history of physical violence, and an insanely jealous temper.He's still in custody when the second victim turns up, a divorced mother of two with no link to the Peters woman - except, as the cops soon find out, a shared interest in the local newspaper's lonely hearts column.

First published in 1989, Lonely Hearts is the book that introduced Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick and brought John Harvey nationwide attention.

John Harvey: Lonely Hearts. A Crime Novel. Owl Books, ISBN: 0805054944 (September, 1997), 288 p., $11.00.