Böcker av Jim Kelly

A lone German bomber crosses the East coast of Britain on a moonless night in the long hot summer of 1940. The pilot picks up the silver thread of a river and following it to his target, drops his bomb over Cambridge's rail yards. The shell falls short of its mark, and lands in a maze-like neighbourhood of terraced streets on the edge of the city's medieval centre. D I Eden Brooke is first on the scene and discovers the body of an elderly woman, Nora Wylde, beside her shattered bed in a terrace house on Elm Street, two fingers on her left hand severed, in what looks like a brutal attempt by looters to steal her rings. When the next day Nora's teenage granddaughter, Peggy, a munitions worker at Marshall's Airfield, is reported missing, Brooke realises there is more to the situation than meets the eye.

This short story collection offers snapshots of a life. A kid is set up by an old uncle to think he's going to be scalped. Riots and war. Conscription. The fights, the violence no longer just yarns heard late at night. Teaching in a tiny mountain town. A better way glimpsed, lost and found, here and gone. Pitchman's blues.

The story begins with Jim's introduction to paranormal activities and spirits by becoming involved in current events happening at the local spirit-inhabited "Haunted Hinsdale House." Shortly after this, Jim was taking some photographs and was astounded by what appeared to be showing up in the photos and so his journey begins…He embarks on a quest, searching for the answers as to why this is all happening to him. Why has he been blessed with such a gift? Spirits are appearing in photograph after photograph that he snaps for all sorts of occasions.Finally, Jim receives his answer. His eyes are opened. He has seen the light. The story continues with Jim sharing interesting personal thoughts and experiences as he continues down the path of spiritual enlightenment.

When a reader contacts local newspaper The Crow to report a rare sighting of the Boreal, or 'Funeral' Owl, journalist Philip Dryden has a sense of foreboding. For the Funeral Owl is said to be an omen of death. In the violent and terrible week that follows, the sighting of the owl proves prophetic in more ways than one.

NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback, Jim Kelly, uses stories from his life to illustrate the lessons and principles he learned about his most important job- fatherhood.