"Ever since the days of Agatha Christie, the great divide in the British detective story has been between plot and character...The novels of Jim Kelly are. . . a find." -The New York Times Book Review Rookie detective Peter Shaw teams up with his father's tough ex-partner yet again to investigate both a gruesome series of present-day murders and some unfinished business from the past, in Death Toll, the third book in the Detective Shaw Mystery series.

Author Biography

JIM KELLY, the son of a Scotland yard detective and winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library award, lives in England.