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Jim Kelly is an author and journalist. Kelly won the Crime Writers Association Dagger in the Library award in 2006.

As of 2016, Kelly has written fourteen crime novels. His first series began with The Water Clock, featuring fictional journalist Philip Dryden, based in the Cambridgeshire area of Great Britain. Kelly won the CWA Dagger in the Library Award in 2006 for the Dryden books. His new series, based on Detective Inspector Peter Shaw, is based on the North Norfolk coast and in the port of Lynn. In 2010 Kelly won the New Angle prize for literature for Death Watch, the second in the Shaw and Valentine series.

He is married to the biographer Midge Gillies and they have a daughter together.

Bibliography

Philip Dryden Series

• The Water Clock 2003
• The Fire Baby 2005
• The Moon Tunnel 2005
• The Coldest Blood 2006
• The Skeleton Man 2007
• Nightrise 2012
• The Funeral Owl 2013

DI Peter Shaw

• Death Wore White 2008
• Death Watch 2010
• Death Toll 2011
• Death's Door 2012
• At Death's Window 2014
• Death on Demand 2015
• Death Ship 2016

Nighthawk

• The Great Darkness 2018
• The Mathematical Bridge 2019
• The Night Raids 2020

References

1. "Jim Kelly | Step into a city of secrets".
2. "InTheNews book review: The Skeleton Man by Jim Kelly". InTheNews.co.uk. 28 August 2007. Archived from the original on 4 September 2008. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
3. "CWA Dagger in the Library Award: 2006". Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
4. "Jim Kelly".
5. "New Angle Prize for Literature – Shortlist Showcase | Ipswich – EventViva". Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
6. "Jim Kelly".

External links

• Jim Kelly's web site

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