約翰‧哈威 John Harvey

1938年出生於倫敦，是小說家，也兼有詩人與劇作家身份。

在諾丁罕大學取得碩士學位後，曾在中學教授英文與戲劇，後轉而從事專職寫作。並於1980年代返回母校，教授電影與文學。作家生涯創作過百餘部作品，其中最為人熟知的是犯罪推理系列。尤其是芮尼克探案的系列小說。

哈威最為膾炙人口的查理‧芮尼克探案系列第一部作品《寂寞芳心》，甫出版便廣受矚目，獲英國BBC改編為影集，並登上英國泰晤士報的二十世紀百大犯罪小說榜。

2007年，英國犯罪小說作家協會再度頒發表彰終生成就的鑽石匕首獎，推崇他為「犯罪作家中的犯罪作家」。

"Harvey's series about Charlie Resnick, the jazz-loving, melancholy cop in provincial Nottingham, England, has long been one of the finest police procedural series around."-Publishers Weekly"The characters in John Harvey's urban crime novels are so defiantly alive and unruly that they put these British police procedurals on a shelf by themselves."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review"Harvey reminds me of Graham Greene, a stylist who tells you everything you need to know while keeping the prose clean and simple. It's a very realistic style that draws you into the story without the writer getting in the way."-Elmore Leonard"Charlie Resnick is one of the most fully realized characters in modern crime fiction."-Sue GraftonThe first major case for Charlie Resnick and his team concerns a number of increasingly serious attacks on women who have been using the "Lonely Hearts" column of the local newspaper. Simultaneously, Resnick becomes involved with Rachel Chaplin, the social worker assigned to a family caught up in allegations of child abuse.John Harvey's Charlie Resnick is British crime fiction's best-kept secret. In the ten novels Harvey wrote about Resnick before ending the series, he established his character as a believable ordinary policeman who investigated ordinary, everyday crime, rooted in the socioeconomic plight and drab lives of many people in the city of Nottingham.Bloody Brits Press will reissue the entire Inspector Charles Resnick series in the next three seasons.