The Fire Baby

Autorentext

Jim Kelly was born in 1957 and 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.

Klappentext

Summer, 1976. A plane crashes on a farm in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Out of the flames walks young Maggie Beck, clutching a baby in her arms... Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip Dryden is witness to Maggie's deathbed confession, and what starts out as a small story turns into a murder investigation.

Zusammenfassung
Philip Dryden is witness to Maggie Beck's deathbed confession, and a tragic plane crash 27 year previously, suddenly becomes the focus of a murder investigation.