Character guide · 6 books · 2002 to 2008 · Mostly set in Ely

Jim Kelly

Crime and mysteryPolice procedural Amateur sleuth Rural crime

Jim Kelly writes atmospheric mysteries set in the Fens. Philip Dryden is a journalist on a small Ely newspaper, driven around by a taxi driver called Humph, whose wife lies in a coma after a car crash; Peter Shaw and George Valentine are detectives on the north Norfolk coast.

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