If you are looking for a new crime series with a nicely complicated investigator then this is for you. Philip Dryden is an investigative journalist, this is his second case. His first, The Water Clock won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Dagger for Best First Crime Novel, this is better.
Dryden’s wife is semi-conscious in hospital and as Dryden sits by her bedside he hears a death-bed confession that reopens a curious case of a plane crash years before and gives us the title of the book. The now dying woman once walked out of a burning wreck with a baby in her arms.
Comparison: Robert Goddard, P D James, Val McDermid.
Similar this month: Erin Hart, Sue Walker.
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.
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Summer, 1976. A plane crashes on a farm in the Cambridgeshire Fens.
The Fire Baby features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Fire Baby was written by Jim Kelly and published by Allison & Busby Limited an imprint of Allison & Busby
The Fire Baby has 350 pages
Yes it is part of The Dryden Mysteries series
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