Gritty and tough could describe John Harvey's new novel, Good Bait, or the characters in the novel. Switching points of view, two detectives work on related cases but never meet. When a 17-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields. 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 London society.
Several hundred miles away in Cornwall, Detective Inspector Trevor Cordon is stirred from his day-to-day duties by another tragic London fatality. Traveling to the capital and determined to establish the cause of death and trace the deceased's daughter, Cordon becomes entangled in a complicated situation of his own. Brilliantly plotted and filled with rich, subtle characters, John Harvey's latest novel reveals him once again as a masterful writer. ML
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