Jim Kelly Books in Order

When a corpse on Ely Cathedral is linked to a mutilated body pulled from icy water, reporter Philip Dryden knows he has a major story. The case also draws him back to the crash that left his wife in a coma.

A dying woman's confession revives the story of a 1976 plane crash in the Cambridgeshire Fens, where she walked from the flames carrying a baby who was not her own. Philip Dryden follows the secret into murder.

Archaeologists uncover human remains in an old POW escape tunnel near Ely, and the dead man seems to have been breaking into the camp, not out of it. Dryden's curiosity soon stirs up a second, far more recent body.

In a brutal Ely winter, a lonely man freezes to death in his flat, but Philip Dryden doubts he died alone. A second frozen corpse leads him toward betrayal, cruelty, and an old mystery from his own childhood.

Army exercises in an abandoned Fenland village uncover a hidden cellar and a skeleton hanging inside. When an amnesiac man is pulled from the river soon after, Philip Dryden finds himself chasing a mystery buried for years.

A man is stabbed inside his truck during a blizzard on the Norfolk coast, with no footprints and no clear escape route. DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine, an uneasy new pairing, must solve a locked-room style murder before more witnesses fall.

Eighteen years after a teenage girl vanished, her twin brother dies in a hospital incinerator in what is clearly no accident. Shaw and Valentine uncover a hidden criminal world in King's Lynn as the old disappearance starts to look newly dangerous.

During flood preparations at King's Lynn cemetery, workers open an old grave and find another corpse hidden inside. Shaw and Valentine dig into a family pub's long-buried secrets before the violence reaches into the present.

A cold case from an uninhabited Norfolk island returns when police reopen the murder of a holidaymaker who never came home. Then one survivor is found dead, and Shaw and Valentine discover the island's old secrets are still lethal.

Philip Dryden is told his father has died in a car crash, even though he supposedly drowned decades earlier. As Dryden follows that shock, a shooting in a lettuce field and a buried-baby case begin to point toward the same truth.

A rare owl sighting draws Philip Dryden into the West Fens just before violence erupts across the district. With a body on a church cross, thefts, and an old art crime resurfacing, the local reporter has more than one trail to follow.

Off Scolt Head Island, a body turns up with samphire in its pockets, pointing Shaw toward a brutal turf war on the north Norfolk coast. While Valentine chases a string of rich-home burglaries, a second death shows the whole community is under strain.

Reporters arriving for Ruby Bright's 100th birthday find her care home turned into a murder scene. Shaw and Valentine trace the case back to a decaying King's Lynn estate, where old secrets and fresh violence are tightly locked together.

A bomb explodes on a crowded Norfolk beach, and what looks like a wartime relic turns into a fresh murder case. Shaw and Valentine are pulled into a bitter local fight over a new pier, where someone is ready to kill to stop it.

As blackout descends on Cambridge in 1939, DI Eden Brooke finds a mutilated body on the riverside and then a second death close behind. War has only just begun, but the city's nights are already hiding murder.

When an evacuated boy is swept away in the Cam, Eden Brooke suspects the drowning was no accident. A strike on a local electronics factory and tensions in Cambridge's Irish community suggest a darker wartime conspiracy.

In blackout Cambridge, DI Eden Brooke investigates an elderly woman's death after a German bomb falls short of its target. When her granddaughter disappears, the case turns into a tense hunt through air raids, fear, and wartime secrets.

In autumn 1941, a dead man in a Cambridge bomb shelter looks like a suicide until Eden Brooke spots the warning signs. As more bodies turn up and sabotage is suspected at a factory, wartime pressure closes in from every side.

When workers extending a wartime airfield uncover the remains of a U.S. airman, Eden Brooke is told not to slow the war effort. Then a local woman's murder puts a Black American serviceman at risk, and Brooke suspects the wrong man is accused.