Dryden Mysteries

3 total works

The Moon Tunnel

by Jim Kelly

Published 30 June 2005

In the past: a man crawls desperately through a claustrophobic escape tunnel beneath a POW camp in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Above, a shadow passes across the moon, while ahead only death awaits him.

In the present: Philip Dryden is reporting on an archaeological dig at the old POW camp when a body is uncovered. But there is something odd: the man appears to have been shot in the head, and the position indicates that he was trying to get into the camp, not escape it.

It's a puzzle which excites Dryden far more than the archaeologists or the police.

That is, until a second, more recent, body is discovered ...

The Water Clock

by Jim Kelly

Published 5 September 2002

In the snowbound landscape of the Cambridgeshire fens, a body is discovered locked in a block of ice. The following day high on Ely Cathedral a second corpse is found, grotesquely 'riding' a stone gargoyle. Journalist Philip Dryden knows he's on to a great story when forensic evidence links both victims to one terrifying event in 1966. But the murders also offer Dryden the key to a very personal mystery. Who saved his life two years ago - and, more importantly, who left his wife to die? The answer will bring Dryden face to face with his own guilt, his own fears - and a cold and ruthless killer . . .

The Fire Baby

by Jim Kelly

Published 5 February 2004

1976. A US plane crashes on the fens. Out of the flames walks a woman, Maggie Beck, carrying a baby. 2003. Maggie is dying and Laura Dryden hears her dying confession from her hospital bed, through a coma - a confession that will blow open a murder story.