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Informationen zum Autor John Harvey was born in London, where he now lives, while considering Nottingham his spiritual home. Initially a teacher of English & Drama, he has been a full-time writer for more than forty years. The first of his 12 volume Charlie Resnick series, Lonely Hearts was selected by The Times as one of the '100 Best Crime Novels of the Century' and the first Frank Elder novel, Flesh & Blood , won the CWA Silver Dagger in 2004. He was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in the crime genre in 2007, and his story, 'Fedora' won the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2014. In addition to writing fiction, he has written and published poetry, running Slow Dancer Press for over twenty years; his New & Selected Poems, Out of Silence was published in 2014. He has adapted the work of Arnold Bennett, A. S. Byatt, Graham Greene and others for radio and television, and in 2017, his dramatisation of the final Resnick novel, Darkness, Darkness , was produced at Nottingham Playhouse. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Hertfordshire and Nottingham. Klappentext Ruth and Simon Pierce's rare romantic break is shattered by devastating news: their daughter Heather on holiday in Cornwall with a friend's family has disappeared. The loss is more than they - or their marriage - can bear. But time does heal and slowly Ruth builds a new life for herself. A new husband Andrew - even a second daughter Beatrice.The chances that history could repeat itself are next-to-impossible - that is until years later a desperate phone call launches DI Will Grayson and his partner DS Helen Walker into an investigation which will test their professional and emotional resources to the very limit.Yet as Grayson becomes increasingly obsessed with a recently released child-abuser and Helen is drawn deeper into a destructive love affair with a married colleague there is a real danger that their most demanding investigation yet will slip fatefully through their hands... Zusammenfassung Ruth and Simon Pierce's rare romantic break is shattered by devastating news: their daughter, Heather, on holiday in Cornwall with a friend's family, has disappeared... The loss is more than they - or their marriage - can bear. But time does heal and slowly Ruth builds a new life for herself....
