birth_place awards birth_date genre article_title name partner
barnet , hertfordshire crime -rrb- writers association dagger in the library -lrb- 2006 01 april 1957 crime jim kelly -lrb- author -rrb-
 jim kelly midge gillies
jim kelly -lrb- author -rrb-

jim kelly is an author and journalist .
kelly won the crime writers association `` dagger in the library '' award in 2006 .
as of 2013 , kelly has written eleven crime novels , including the award-winning `` the water clock '' , featuring fictional journalist philip dryden , based in the cambridgeshire area of great britain .
his new series , based on detective inspector peter shaw , is based on the north norfolk coast and in the port of lynn .
in 2010 kelly won the new angle prize for literature for death watch , the second in the shaw and valentine series .
he lives with the biographer midge gillies and they have a daughter together .
