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Still Water
By John Harvey
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A British police investigator looks into the murder of an abused woman: “More than a crime novel . . . a tapestry of intrigue and moral quandary” (San Francisco Chronicle).
For Charlie Resnick, the night they found the body in the water was the night that Milt Jackson came to town. Resnick is a jazz fiend and considers Jackson, a contemporary of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, one of the all-time greats. He has just sat down for the concert when the call comes in about the body. Gravely disappointed, the police inspector tears across town to run the crime scene. He finds the body of a young woman who shows signs of blunt force trauma and a recently terminated pregnancy. Attempts to identify the girl, and to link her to three other bodies recently found in canals, are futile. The case goes nowhere, but Resnick always remembers the night he missed Milt Jackson. When another woman disappears, Resnick reopens the case, and finds that few places hold darker secrets than the black waters of the Nottingham canals.
For Charlie Resnick, the night they found the body in the water was the night that Milt Jackson came to town. Resnick is a jazz fiend and considers Jackson, a contemporary of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, one of the all-time greats. He has just sat down for the concert when the call comes in about the body. Gravely disappointed, the police inspector tears across town to run the crime scene. He finds the body of a young woman who shows signs of blunt force trauma and a recently terminated pregnancy. Attempts to identify the girl, and to link her to three other bodies recently found in canals, are futile. The case goes nowhere, but Resnick always remembers the night he missed Milt Jackson. When another woman disappears, Resnick reopens the case, and finds that few places hold darker secrets than the black waters of the Nottingham canals.
Author
John Harvey
John Harvey has been writing crime fiction for more than forty years. His first novel, Lonely Hearts, was selected by The Times as one of the '100 Best Crime Novels of the Century' and he has been the recipient of both the silver and diamond dagger awards.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Harvey is excellent as always, Resnick is a great character, and Nottingham never seemed so interesting!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It’s a good thing that I am a committed fan of the Charlie Resnick series by John Harvey as the 9th book, Still Water was not exactly a page turner. Instead this book updated the reader on the members of Charlie’s Squad and, indeed, on Charlie himself. There was a certain amount of carry-over from the previous book as to the status of Mark Devine and Lynn Kellogg has been promoted and accepted a position with the newly developed Serious Crime Unit. Also everyone had expected Charlie to apply to head up the new Serious Crime Unit, but after much pondering, he decided to pass on this for now, but then he felt that politics came into play when the new chief was announced. Meanwhile Charlie and his girlfriend Hannah are spending more and more time together even as Charlie questions some disturbing questions about love. Of course there is some crime action as they investigate a case of art theft and eventually there is a murder to solve with the death of Hannah’s friend, Jane. Through the course of the investigation it is revealed that Jane suffered abuse at the hands of her husband so the team zeros on him, but does being a wife beater automatically make him a wife killer as well?As always John Harvey provides an authentic touch of police detail along with his crime story but Still Water wasn’t his usual gripping story. The plot line was rather scattered and there were perhaps a few too many loose ends left dangling. Nevertheless, I will definitely be continuing on with this series as these books are usually exceptional, so will keep my fingers crossed for the next one.
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