Last Rites [Paperback]

John Harvey (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Arrow (2006)
• ASIN: B000OHEM6M
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

More About the Author

JOHN HARVEY is the author of eleven Charlie Resnick novels and the Frank Elder series, and is a recipient of the Silver Dagger Award, the Barry Award, and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement, among other honors.

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Running Out Steam..., January 27, 2000

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A. Ross (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Rites: A Crime Novel (Charles Resnick Novels) (Hardcover)

The not-so-grand finale in the Charlie Resnick series certainly exhibits the signs of Harvey's weariness with the series. The highly predictable main plot features an escaped murderer with a sordid childhood, and is the least interesting element of the book. The police efforts to stem a series of drug-related killings brings in a number of minor players from past books and is somewhat more interesting. But of course it is the developments in Resnick's private and professional life that drives the book and rescues it in the end.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Will be sadly missed, January 5, 2000

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Tove Larson ([e-mail]) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Last Rites: A Crime Novel (Charles Resnick Novels) (Hardcover)

I did not realize until nearly at the end that this was the last of the Resnick novels. I'm embarassed to admit that he has become a part of my life and that I awaited his next installment like a child on the first day of school. I feel like my life will somehow be incomplete without the wisdom of Charlie but anxiously await the latest character.

This series will be well worth the attention.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great end to a great series, June 14, 2009

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T. J. Reilly (Phoenix AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Rites: The 10th Charles Resnick Mystery (A Charles Resnick Mystery) (Paperback)

Sadly, this great series comes to an end. A remarkably consistent set of stories, each touching on a different social issue. Harvey is a genius at developing characters, some who seem destined to be fixtures only to leave the series due to death or other causes but who remain in Charlie's memory in later stories. Poor Charlie, who stumbles into relationships in one novel only to see it end in later ones. Living with his four cats amidst constant jazz, and spending time at Polish events to refresh his Polish roots, Charlie Resnick became a close friend. Of all the British police procedural characters, Charlie is the one I'd most like to meet and befriend. I suspect John Harvey misses him too.

A word of caution. This series is best read in sequence, precisely because they are in fact one continuous story of one man's remarkable life.