Jim Kelly
Author
Series
Nighthawk (Jim Kelly) volume 2
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Cambridge, 1940. It is the first winter of the war, and snow is falling. When an evacuee drowns in the river, his body swept away, Detective Inspector Eden Brooke sets out to investigate what seems to be a deliberate attack. The following night, a local electronics factory is attacked, and an Irish republican slogan is left at the scene. The IRA are campaigning to win freedom for Ulster, but why has Cambridge been chosen as a target? And when Brooke...
2) Death ship
Author
Series
Publisher
Creme De La Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When an explosion rips across Hunstanton Beach on the north Norfolk coast, an abandoned Second World War bomb is assumed to be the cause . . . but is it? Could there be a connection with the new pier being built - and the increasingly bitter campaign to halt its construction?At the same time, DI Shaw and DS Valentine are on the hunt for an elderly female killer with a uniquely macabre method of despatch. And a 63-year-old Dutch engineer is missing,...
Author
Series
Nighthawk (Jim Kelly) volume 3
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A lone German bomber crosses the East coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long hot summer of 1940. The pilot picks up the silver thread of a river and following it to his target, drops his bomb over Cambridge's rail yards. The shell falls short of its mark, and lands in a maze-like neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of the city's medieval centre. D I Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the body of an elderly woman,...
4) Death's door
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"One hot August day in 1994, 75 holidaymakers are ferried to an uninhabited island off the North Norfolk coast. Only 74 return alive. A young man has been stabbed and left to bleed to death in the island's surf. The case is never solved. Twenty years later, the new chief constable decides the murder is ripe for a re-evaluation using state-of-the-art forensics. DI Peter Shaw is in charge of the case and summons all 75 original suspects to a mass DNA...
5) Death watch
Author
Series
Detective Shaw mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
When a body is discovered beneath the waves off Scolt Head Island, the contents of the dead man's pockets lead Detective Inspector Peter Shaw to suspect an outbreak of 'samphire wars': a turf battle for control of the prized sea asparagus which sells for a small fortune along the affluent North Norfolk coast. Or does the killer merely want it to look that way? Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant George Valentine is investigating a series of break-ins targeted...
Author
Series
Philip Dryden novels volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
8) Nightrise
Author
Series
Philip Dryden novels volume 6
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Philip Dryden is informed that his father has been killed in an accident, Dryden must discover how this could be since he knew the man to have been killed in a flood years earlier, and how this might to relate to two new unexplained cases.
Author
Series
Nighthawk (Jim Kelly) volume 1
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
1939, Cambridge: The opening weeks of the Second World War, and the first blackout--The Great Darkness--covers southern England, enveloping the city. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke, a wounded hero of the Great War, takes his nightly dip in the cool waters of the Cam. Daylight reveals a corpse on the riverside, the body torn apart by some unspeakable force. Brooke investigates, calling on the expertise and inspiration of a faithful group of fellow...
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