Praise for JG Kelly novels
“Deeply moving and beautifully written.”
Ann Cleeves
“Heart-breaking, beautiful and thrilling – a book that will stay with you for a very long time.”
Elly Griffiths
“A tale of devastating secrets, brilliantly told.”
Rory Clements
“Outstanding. Heartstopping. Brilliant.”
Kate Furnivall
“Thought-provoking and compelling.”
Caroline Scott
The Cambridge Siren
Autumn, 1941. The third year of war and still the siren sounds, driving the people of Cambridge from their beds to trudge to one of the city’s crowded bomb shelters. At dawn, the body of a young man is found in a shadowy corner. Everything points to suicide, but Detective Inspector Eden Brooke has his doubts given the unidentified man has a suspiciously tropical suntan and the detective’s office telephone number scrawled on the back of his hand. Did the victim know his life was in danger?
The White Lie
CWA Gold Dagger longlisted 2024
Everyone knows the story of Captain Scott and his legendary last expedition to the South Pole in 1912. His diary has inspired generations, and his heroic death was immortalised by his companion – Apsley Cherry-Gerrard – in his book The Worst Journey in the World. But what if history was turned on its head?
The Silent Child
She can’t have a future until she has a past.
Hanna Stern, a Jewish child who survived the war, grows up in the Cambridgeshire Fens unable to remember the fate of her family or her own years as a prisoner. Her search for the past takes her to Berlin in 1961 in pursuit of the truth. But she is not alone in her quest. Others will kill to keep her forgotten secrets.
From the blog
Next Eden Brooke in sight
Later this month The American Suspect will be available in bookshops, online, and in several formats. It’s the fifth Inspector Eden Brooke nighthawk novel, and like the rest is set in Cambridge in the Second World War. It is 1943 and Britain is changing fast, thanks to the arrival of the ‘GI’ – eventually a
Paperback writer
Writing can be a lonely business. I don’t have a garret to work in, but the office is upstairs and it looks out on Iceland – unfortunately not the Romantic storm-tossed Arctic variety, but the frozen food store. If I’m not there I am out in my shed on the allotment. It has windows with
In the footsteps of Jane Austen
October 24th: Off to Basingstoke for the crime writing festival and a panel discussion with Matthew Sweet and Julia Anderson. At the station I’m confronted by the sensational news that this is the birthplace of Jane Auston – what she thought of Churros is lost to history. The panel, chaired by the excellent Heather Fitt,