Showing Wasted Years by John Harvey

The fifth DI Charlie Resnick novel, from the master of British crime writing.

A series of brutal robberies takes Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick back ten years.

To a time when a rash of very similar incidents left him face to face with a frenzied sociopath who nearly brought his life to a premature end - and to a time when his wife ran off with her lover, putting paid to their marriage and leaving him with a psychic wound that still hasn't healed.

Now with the look-alike robberies escalating in violence, Resnick fights to track the men down before they kill, just as he fights to stem the poignant memories that threaten to overwhelm him.