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 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.