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 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

  • The Cambridge Siren

    The Cambridge Siren

    Is spring in the air? The next story from Inspector Eden Brooke’s wartime Cambridge is now set to appear in late March. I’m delighted with the designs from Allison & Busby – I think they’ve caught a subtle brooding menace in the lamplit streets of the old city. After a break of four years, I’m…

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  • Paperback launched

    Paperback launched

    The paperback of The White Lie – long-listed for this year’s Gold Dagger – was launched at Bodies in the Bookshop, Cambridge. The shop, on St Botolph’s Lane, specialises in crime thrillers of all ages, and comprises several small rooms, but it’s a bookshop with a big heart. It is the brainchild of Richard Reynolds…

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  • The return of Philip Dryden

    It is more than twenty years since Philip Dryden first set out to a scene of crime, ferried by his faithful side-kick Humph, in a two-door taxi, across the flooded fens of East Anglia. The cathedral city of Ely became his haunt for seven tales of criem and mystery. The books found many friends –…

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