Bodies are being exhumed at King's Lynn's cemetery, the bones moved to higher ground to avoid flooding. But when the coffin of murdered pub landlady Nora Tilden is hauled up into the light there's a grim discovery; the twisted corpse of a young black man, killed by a billhook blow to the head, and dumped in the grave on the night Nora was buried twenty-eight years earlier. The police are baffled by a bewildering and brutal murder.
Who was this young man? Was he the victim of a racist crime? When DI Peter Shaw, DS George Valentine and their team are put on the case their investigation first leads them to The Flask, Nora's pub just along the riverbank, where her family hides more than one dark secret and it's soon clear no one can be trusted. Will Shaw and Valentine be able to get to the shocking truth behind the murder before it's too late and the ghosts from the past claim another victim?
Praise for Jim Kelly-
'A rare combination of poetic writing and a gripping plot' Sunday Telegraph
'Kelly pulls off both fiendish plot and contemporary relevance in an unsettling, allegoric tale' Guardian
'Kelly goes from strength to strength' Daily Mirror
'Full of suspense, gore and excitement - you won't be able to put this down!' Closer
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Author Biography
Jim Kelly lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire, with his partner, the writer Midge Gillies, and their daughter. He is also the author of The Water Clock, The Fire Baby, The Moon Tunnel, The Coldest Blood and The Skeleton Man, all featuring journalist Phillip Dryden. The series won the 2006 CWA Dagger in the Library award for a body of work giving 'the greatest enjoyment to readers'. The Water Clock was also shortlisted dor the CWA John Creasey Award for best first novel and The Fire Baby for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Death Wore White begins a scintillating new series, featuring DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine.
