Five Leaves Publications

Book details

Going Down Slow includes seven short stories, two of which feature Charlie Resnick and three feature Jack Kiley. This limited edition hardback collection, signed by the author, will be welcomed by John Harvey’s worldwide audience.

“... no one in Britain is writing better crime fiction.” The Times 

“Immaculately engineered ... fast, fluent and exciting, with a pace and assurance that never lets up.” Literary Review 

“Harvey is as good as they come; a writer of consummate elegance and deft characterisation...” Mark Billingham

About the Author

Novelist, poet, dramatist and sometime publisher, John Harvey has been a professional writer for some forty years, and his work has been translated into more than twenty languages. The first of his Charlie Resnick series, Lonely Hearts, was named by The Times as one of the 100 most notable crime novels of the last century, and in 2007 he was the recipient of the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Sustained Excellence in Crime Writing. His short story, ‘Fedora’ (included in this collection) won the 2014 CWA Short Story Dagger. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by the Universities of both Nottingham and Hertfordshire