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Jim Kelly: The Water Clock. p/b signed
ISBN 9780718145514                             

UK 1st edition 1st impression paperback.
Published by Michael Joseph in 2002.
The book is fine, new and unread.
Signed on the title page with no inscriptions or dedications.
Only issued in paperback in the UK, Jim Kelly's debut crime novel featuring newspaper reporter Philip Dryden
   Time is running out for Philip Dryden...In the snowbound landscape of the Cambridgeshire fens, a body is discovered locked in a block of ice. The following day high on Ely Cathedral a second corpse is found, grotesquely 'riding' a stone gargoyle. Journalist Philip Dryden knows he's on to a great story when forensic evidence links both victims to one terrifying event in 1966. But the murders also offer Dryden the key to a very personal mystery. Who saved his life two years ago - and, more importantly, who left his wife to die? The answer will bring Dryden face to face with his own guilt, his own fears - and a cold and ruthless killer...

£
32.00    
Jim Kelly: The Fire Baby. p/b signed
ISBN 9780718145521
UK ist edtion 1st impression paperback

Published by Michael Joseph in 2004.
The book is fine, new and unread.
Signed on the title page with no inscriptions or dedications.

Summer, 1976. A plane crashes on a farm in the Cambridgeshire fens. Out of the flames walks young Maggie Beck, clutching a baby in her arms.
   Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip Dryden - visiting his wife, Laura, in hospital - is witness to Maggie's deathbed confession. But some secrets are best kept secret, and what started out for Dryden as a small and curious story about the only survivor of an almost-forgotten plane crash soon escalates into a full-blown murder investigation. And while Dryden is wondering what other secrets Maggie carried, his semi-conscious wife is trying to tell him something that might just save his life...

£
10.00    
Jim Kelly: The Moon Tunnel. p/b signed
ISBN 9780718147525

UK 1st edition 1st impression paperback.
Published by Michael Joseph in 2005.
The book is fine, new and unread.
Signed on the title page with no inscriptions or dedications.

In the past: a man crawls desperately through a claustrophobic escape tunnel beneath a POW camp in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Above, a shadow passes across the moon, while ahead only death awaits him. In the present: Philip Dryden is reporting on an archaeological dig at the old POW camp when a body is uncovered. But there is something odd: the man appears to have been shot in the head, and the position indicates that he was trying to get into the camp, not escape it. It's a puzzle which excites Dryden far more than the archaeologists or the police. That is, until a second, more recent, body is discovered ...

£
10.00    
Jim Kelly: The Coldest Blood. signed
ISBN 9780718147532
UK 1st edition 1st impression hardback in an unclipped wrap
Published by Michael Joseph in 2006.
The wrap is fine with light edge wrinkling
The book is fine, pushed at head and tail
Signed on the title page with no inscriptions or dedications

   A man lies hidden in an abandoned boat. Stifling screams, he draws a knife across his arm, letting the blood flow free. Soon he'll be dead - and life can begin again. Three decades later Declan McIlroy, a 39-year-old loner, is found frozen to death in his flat as Arctic temperatures grip the cathedral city of Ely. His is not the only cold death that winter, but nevertheless reporter Philip Dryden has worrying doubts - for it seems Declan may not have been alone as he slowly froze to death. Dryden's suspicions harden when days later he finds the body of Declan's best friend Joe - frozen within a shell of ice on the doorstep of his secluded Fenland farmhouse. Soon, Dryden is picking his way along a disturbing trail of cruelty and betrayal to a brilliantly executed crime, and to a chilling, half-remembered mystery from his own childhood.

£
8.00    
Jim Kelly: Death's Door
ISBN 9781780295190                                                      
UK 1st edition 1st impression hardback in an unclipped wrap
Published by Creme de la Crime in 2012.
The wrap is fine.
The book is near fine, very slightly cocked
   On a hot August day in 1994, 76 holidaymakers travel to an island off the North Norfolk coast. Only 75 return alive - a young man is murdered, the case left unsolved. Twenty years later, using state-of-the-art forensics, the DNA results of a blood soaked towel prompts DI Peter Shaw to summon all 75 original suspects to a mass screening. but one of them, the beautiful Marianne Osbourne, is found dead in her bed. Is there a link to the 1994 murder? DI Shaw and DS Valentine become immersed in the dark secrets of an isolated community.

£
10.00    
Jim Kelly: Nightrise
ISBN 9781780290331                                                       

UK 1st edition 1st impression hardback in an unclipped wrap
Published by Creme de la Crime in 2012.
The wrap is fine.
The book is fine.
    Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked to be informed by police that his father has been killed in a car accident - he drowned during the fenland floods of 1977, 35 years before. At the same time, two unrelated cases are demanding Dryden's professional attention: a body riddled with bullets found hanging in the middle of a lettuce field, and a couple protesting that the local council has buried their baby daughter in a pauper's grave without permission. As Dryden pieces the clues together, he realizes that the three cases may be related after all ...
£
10.00    
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