Jim Kelly is an

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and

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. Kelly won the

Crime Writers Association The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) is a specialist authors’ organisation in the United Kingdom, most notable for its Dagger awards for the best crime writing of the year, and the Diamond Dagger awarded to an author for lifetime achievement. T ...

Dagger in the Library The Dagger in the Library (Golden Handcuffs in 1992–1994) is an annual award given by the British Crime Writers' Association to a particular "living author who has given the most pleasure to readers". Yearly shortlists are drawn up of the ten auth ...

'' award in 2006. As of 2016, Kelly has written fourteen

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novels. His first series began with ''The Water Clock'', featuring fictional journalist Philip Dryden, based in the

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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

External links

Jim Kelly's web site
1957 births Living people People from the London Borough of Barnet British crime fiction writers British male journalists British male novelists {{UK-novelist-stub