About the Author

Jim Kelly was born in 1957 and is the son of a Scotland Yard detective. He went to university in Sheffield, later training as a journalist and worked on the Bedfordshire Times, Yorkshire Evening Press and the Financial Times. His first book, The Water Clock, was shortlisted for the John Creasey Award and he has since won a CWA Dagger in the Library and the New Angle Prize for Literature. He lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire.

Reviews

"Kelly has crafted a believable wounded hero ... Another winner from the talented Kelly." Booklist

"Sinister, mysterious and refreshingly different." Andrew Taylor, author of The Ashes of London