Good Bait - John Harvey

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 inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organised crime which infiltrates almost every aspect of London society, from the back streets and high rises of Tottenham to the multi-million pound hideaways of the new international entrepreneurs.

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, determined to establish the cause of death and trace the deceased's daughter - an old acquaintance from Penzance - 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 ...

Brilliantly plotted and filled with rich, subtle characters, John Harvey's latest novel reveals him once again as a masterful writer with his finger firmly on the pulse of twenty-first century crime.

John Harvey is the author of the richly praised Charlie Resnick novels, the first of which, Lonely Hearts, was named by The Times as one of the '100 Best Crime Novels of the Century'. His first novel featuring Frank Elder, Flesh and Blood, won the CWA Silver Dagger in 2004, and a Barry Award for the Best British Crime Novel published in the US in 2004. In 2007 John Harvey was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger and in 2009 he was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Letters, by the University of Nottingham.

To find out more about John Harvey visit his website at: www.mellotone.co.uk

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

"John Harvey returns in resounding form."
The Times

"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

"This is the latest from a veteran crime fiction writer...who never fails to deliver the goods... Intricate, character-driven plotting and a large canvas full of telling detail lift this above the average police procedural."
Guardian

"As ever, John Harvey's writing is cool, light, and beautiful. His combination of darkest emotion, present-day concerns, and simple human wanting, where everything isn't tied up neatly at the end, and pain goes on beyond the end of the novel - because it always does - is flawless."
Stella Duffy