The Great Darkness

1939, Cambridge: The opening weeks of the Second World War, and the first blackout - The Great Darkness - covers southern England. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke, a wounded hero of the Great War, takes his nightly dip in the cool waters of the Cam. Daylight reveals a corpse on the riverside, the body torn apart by some unspeakable force. Zusammenfassung 1939! Cambridge: The opening weeks of the Second World War! and the first blackout - The Great Darkness - covers southern England. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke! a wounded hero of the Great War! takes his nightly dip in the cool waters of the Cam. Daylight reveals a corpse on the riverside! the body torn apart by some unspeakable force.

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.