Order of Jim Kelly Books
Jim Kelly is an English novelist of crime fiction novels. He writes the Philip Dryden and D.I. Peter Shaw & D.S. George Valentine series. He has won the CWA Dagger in the Library award and the New Angle Prize for Literature. In addition to being a novelist, Kelly is also a journalist and education correspondent for the Financial Times. He lives in Cambridgeshire, UK with his wife, biographer Midge Gilles, and their daughter.
Jim Kelly made his debut as a published novelist in 2002 with the novel The Water Clock. Below is a list of Jim Kelly’s books in order of when they were first released:
Publication Order of Philip Dryden Books
| The Water Clock | (2002) |    |
| The Fire Baby | (2004) | |
| The Moon Tunnel | (2005) | |
| The Coldest Blood | (2006) | |
| The Skeleton Man | (2007) | |
| Nightrise | (2012) | |
| The Funeral Owl | (2013) | |
Publication Order of DI Peter Shaw & DS George Valentine Books
| Death Wore White | (2008) | |
| Death Watch | (2010) | |
| Death Toll | (2011) | |
| Death's Door | (2012) | |
| At Death's Window | (2015) | |
| Death on Demand | (2015) | |
| Death Ship | (2016) | |
Publication Order of Nighthawk Books
| The Great Darkness | (2018) | |
| The Mathematical Bridge | (2019) | |
| The Night Raids | (2020) | |
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Jim Kelly Synopsis: The Water Clock is the debut novel of Jim Kelly and the first appearance of Philip Dryden. A body has been discovered in Cambridgeshire, trapped in a block of ice. Then, a second corpse is found in Ely Cathedral, riding a stone gargoyle. Philip Dryden, a journalist, knows it’s an huge story when these bodies are linked to something that happened back in 1966, but it’s also a personal mystery for the journalist.
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Kelly’s Philip Dryden series is fantastic. Re read them all. Just the right amount of suspense and humour. Not a huge fan of his other books which seem to lack the dry humour of the Dryden books though. But can highly recommend said series.
Enyoyed his book, the only one i’ve read….now reading The Waterclock. Found it interesting. Hard to find a decent English crime novel………At the library, most of them are American “best sellers”!!