tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post8759205139556841203..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Death Wore WhiteMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-66590667791031463222009-03-27T21:27:00.000+00:002009-03-27T21:27:00.000+00:00Thanks, this is a very good recommendation, and I ...Thanks, this is a very good recommendation, and I shall put Jim on the priority list! I have to admit that, were I to reveal the full list of good books that I haven't read, it would be depressingly long....Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-73337331874494903612009-03-27T16:25:00.000+00:002009-03-27T16:25:00.000+00:00MartinI'm shocked you haven't come across Jim Kell...Martin<BR/>I'm shocked you haven't come across Jim Kelly before! For my money he's one of the most entertaining new crime writers of the last ten years.<BR/>His Philip Dryden series began in 2002 (I think). The stories are set mainly in Ely and the fens, and make brilliant use of the East Anglian landscape and weather and the way they, and the area's WW2 past, affect people's lives. Dryden (ex Fleet Street reporter now chief reporter on a not-quite-moribund Ely paper) is a likeable hero and has crime fiction's best new sidekick in years. Kelly spins a good mystery and has a nicely sardonic style that can plumb emotional depths when necessary - definitely to be read!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17875718089207308913noreply@blogger.com