John Harvey: Now's The Time (UK 2005)

From the Publisher:
With his richly praised sequence of novels featuring Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, John Harvey created not only an unforgettable character of great depth and complexity, but a realistic and richly people inner-city world of struggling heroes and feckless villains.

A woman is beaten; a charred body is found in a warehouse: another 4 a.m. call for Charlie Resnick. Gathered together in Now's The Time are twelve short stories featuring Resnick, including a new story written especially for this edition. 'Billie's Blues' reunites Resnick with the troubled and beautiful Eileen, former stripper and mistress of a gangland boss, and now on the run and in fear for her life.

From old foes to upstart pretenders, the city and the jazz-soaked, night-time world of Charlie Resnick come vividly to life.

John Harvey: Now's The Time. The Complete Resnick Short Stories. Arrow, ISBN: 009943556X (December, 2005), 320 p., £6.99.

John Harvey: Now's The Time (UK 2002)

From the Publisher:
John Harvey's Charlie Resnick novels have drawn an extraordinary degree of praise from critics and fellow-writers throughout Britain, America and Europe. They have been translated into over a dozen languages and adapted for radio and television.

This collection brings together all of the eleven short stories featuring Charlie Resnick, including the novella-length 'Slow Burn', which has never before appeared in print. Hot jazz, scuzzy criminals, noirish streets - "the killing fields of the East Midlands" - and sumptuous sandwiches - everything you expect from Harvey and Resnick: it's all here. And now there are no more novels to come this is all there is. Don't wait!

Some of the stories were used by Harvey as a testing ground for characters and situations which later appeared in the novels. In others, he fleshes out people and ideas touched on in the books. And in a detailed introduction, Harvey describes the origins of the Resnick character and his own influences as a crime writer.

John Harvey: Now's The Time. The Complete Resnick Short Stories. Heinemann, ISBN: 0434010278 (September, 2002), 306 p., £17.99.