DiscoveReads author event with historical thriller novelist Jim Kelly

Join us for an author event with historical thriller novelist Jim Kelly, as part of our DiscoveReads project! Jim will be talking to us about his career so far and his wartime mystery, The Great Darkness, which is one of this year's featured DiscoveReads titles.

Tickets are £5.00 each. Price includes refreshments. This event includes an audience Q&A and book signing.

About The Great Darkness:

1939, Cambridge. The opening weeks of the Second World War, and the first blackout - The Great Darkness - covers southern England, enveloping the city. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke, a wounded hero of the Great War, takes his nightly dip in the cool waters of the Cam. The night is full of alarms, but in this Phoney War, the enemy never comes.

But daylight reveals a corpse on the riverside, the body torn apart by some unspeakable force. Brooke investigates, calling on the expertise and inspiration of a faithful group of fellow 'nighthawks' across the city, all condemned, like him, to a life lived away from the light. Within hours The Great Darkness has claimed a second victim. War, it seems, has many victims. But what links these crimes of the night?

About Jim Kelly:

Jim Kelly is a British writer who is based in Ely. After a successful career in newspapers he started writing crime novels. The Water Clock featuring Philip Dryden was his first and it was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Award for best first crime novel of 2002. Since then he has written several books in the successful DI Peter Shaw series. His latest series Nighthawk is set in wartime Cambridge and features DI Eden Brooke.

His father was a former Army Commando and later a detective in Met, and his maternal grandfather was a special constable and magistrate, and so from a young age Jim was fascinated by their lives, and the times in which they’d served – the basis for a lifetime’s fascination with history and crime.

About DiscoveReads:

DiscoveReads is our programme to help you find new and exciting reads and get you talking about books. With a selection of five great books recommended by readers, DiscoveReads is a unique way to take your reading to new places. All you need is your library card and an open mind!

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