Death Wore White

by Jim Kelly

Published 30 October 2008
Introduces a new series: Inspector Vectis. A winter blizzard traps 10 cars on a lonely road. It is an eventful night. By dawn a baby has been born, an elderly man has died from cold, and a man lies dead at his wheel - a nine inch nail punched through his temple. For Inspector Vectis of King's Lynn police, this murder investigation is a huge challenge.

Death Toll

by Jim Kelly

Published 6 January 2011

Bodies are being exhumed at King's Lynn's cemetery, the bones moved to higher ground to avoid flooding. But when the coffin of murdered pub landlady Nora Tilden is hauled up into the light there's a grim discovery: the twisted corpse of a young black man, killed by a billhook blow to the head, and dumped in the grave on the night Nora was buried twenty-eight years earlier. The police are baffled by a bewildering and brutal murder.

Who was this young man? Was he the victim of a racist crime? When DI Peter Shaw, DS George Valentine and their team are put on the case their investigation first leads them to The Flask, Nora's pub just along the riverbank, where her family hides more than one dark secret and it's soon clear no one can be trusted. Will Shaw and Valentine be able to get to the shocking truth behind the murder before it's too late and the ghosts from the past claim another victim?


Death Watch

by Jim Kelly

Published 25 February 2010
5 September 1992

Fifteen-year-old Norma Jean Judd disappeared from her home never to be seen again.


5 September 2010

Exactly eighteen years later, Bryan Judd, Norma Jean's twin, is pulled from the searing heat of a hospital incinerator. When his charred remains are examined, the murder squad confirms that his death was no accident. Could it somehow be linked to his sister's disappearance?

For DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine, the case proves their most intriguing yet. As they begin their investigation into Bryan's life, they uncover a secret world of criminal activity in Bryan's neighbourhood and at the hospital where he died. Can Shaw and Valentine solve Bryan's murder before any more lives are violently snatched away? And will they ever learn the truth about what happened to Norma Jean?