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Author_Jim Kelly
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Historical crime
Historical mystery
Jim Kelly
Nighthawk
Second World War
The Cambridge Siren
World War Two
WWII
Product details
- ISBN 9780749032647
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 19 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Allison & Busby
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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October, 1942. Thousands of American GIs are stationed across eastern England building airfields to bomb Nazi Germany and Cambridge's dance halls and pubs are a hot spot for Yanks on leave. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke is called to the aerodrome east of the city when the remains of an airman, identified by his dog tag, are uncovered by workers extending the runway. However, this is no recent burial.
A fresh murder means that a black US serviceman faces the hangman's noose, but Brooke sees through the clouds of tension and prejudice and believes he sees an innocent man.
Jim Kelly is the son of a Scotland Yard detective. He went to university in Sheffield, later training as a journalist and worked on the Bedfordshire Times, Yorkshire Evening Press and the Financial Times. His first book, The Water Clock, was shortlisted for the John Creasey Award and he has since won a CWA Dagger in the Library and the New Angle Prize for Literature. He lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire.
