Jim Kelly
BritishCrimeb. 1957
Jim Kelly (born 1957) is a British crime novelist and former Financial Times journalist. He is best known for the Philip Dryden series (beginning with The Water Clock) and later DI Peter Shaw novels, many of which are set in the Cambridgeshire Fens and on the North Norfolk coast. Kelly has won the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library (2006) and the New Angle Prize for Literature, and his work has been praised for its strong sense of place and well-drawn investigative protagonists.
Awards
["Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library (2006)", 'New Angle Prize for Literature']
Notable Works
['The Water Clock', 'Death Watch', 'The Great Darkness']
