Good Bait - Softcover

Forget what you had planned for today; the new Harvey novel comes first.

John Harvey writes the way we all wish we could write. His stories are filled with the blood of true character.--Michael Connelly

Crime fiction at its best.--George Pelecanos

No one in Britain is writing better crime fiction.

Harvey's books are a joy because he excels in every aspect of crime fiction, including adroit plotting, sharp dialogue, subtle characterizations, and an underlying, shimmering intelligence.--Patrick Anderson

When a 17-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime Unit. 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 organized crime which infiltrates almost every aspect of London society. 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.