John Harvey (1)

John Harvey has certainly caught my attention. In this entry, Charlie Resnick is charged with stopping a string of increasingly violent but very well-planned bank robberies. At the same time, we see a young man try to get into the same line of criminal endeavor, becoming increasingly dangerous himself. Charlie is thrown back to similar cases ten years before, and the circumstances of his life at that time. The change of timeline is pretty well handled, as is Charlie's personal life.

An up and coming surgeon is attacked and badly injured leaving his hospital, and Resnick's team is pressed hard to find the attacker. But, of course, there are other attacks, badly injuring others connected in some way to the hospital. What is the common thread? And, at the same time, someone is raping young women in their homes. Investigating both puts a strain on the team.

And we finally meet Resnick's ex-wife, not in a pretty way.

Well, Harvey has hit his stride. I guess introductory books, complete with egg stains on ties, can be a little ponderous, but this second foray was excellent. It kept me up until midnight! Not my usual thing these days. Burglaries, cocaine, teenagers off the skids, patterns .