Doug Johnstone: 13 books

Meet Martha. It's the first day of her new job as intern at Edinburgh'sThe Standard. But all's not well at the ailing newspaper, and Martha is carrying some serious baggage of her own. Put straight onto the obituary page, she takes a call from a former employee who seems to commit suicide while...

Four friends, one weekend, gallons of whisky. What could go wrong? Driven by amateur whisky-nut Adam, four late-thirties ex-university mates are heading to Islay - the remote Scottish island world famous for its single malts - with a wallet full of cash, a stash of coke and a serious thirst. Over...

Driving home from a party with his girlfriend and brother, all of them drunk and high on stolen pills, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits someone in the night. In a panic, they all decide to drive off. But the next day Billy wakes to find he has to cover the story for the local paper. It turns...

'It's just to say that no-one has come to pick Nathan up from school, and we were wondering if there was a problem of some kind?' As Mark Douglas photographs a pod of whales stranded in the waters off Edinburgh's Portobello Beach, he is called by his son's school: his wife, Lauren, hasn't turned...

A little lie … a seismic secret … and the cracks are beginning to show… In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, where a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new volcano in the Firth of Forth, and where tremors are an everyday occurrence, volcanologist Surtsey makes a shocking discovery....

Seventeen-year-old Tyler lives in one of Edinburgh's most deprived areas. Coerced into robbing rich people's homes by his bullying older siblings, he's also trying to care for his little sister and his drug-addict mother. On a job, his brother stabs a homeowner and leaves her for dead—and the woman...

Struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her teenage son, Ellie lives in the shadows of the Forth Road Bridge, lingering on its footpaths and swimming in the waters below. One day she talks down another suicidal teenager, Sam, and sees for herself a shot at redemption, the chance to atone for...

An adrenaline-charged thriller from the Kindle-bestselling author of Gone Again and Hit and Run. 'An unnerving tale of what happens to ordinary lives when the wheels come off.' VAL MCDERMID 'A haunting, unforgettable page-turner that ticks every excellence box in crime writing.' ALANNA...

Your best mate just fell off a cliff in mysterious circumstances and you were the last person to see him alive. What do you do? Well, if you're David Lindsay from Arbroath, you get the hell out of there and don't return. Not for at least fifteen years. Until Nicola Cruickshank - yes, that Nicola,...

A rollicking and hugely enjoyable contemporary novel describing the outrageous mid-winter tour around Scotland of a group of musicians called 'The Ossians'. The band's driving force is twenty-four-year-old lead singer, Connor - intelligent but self-destructive, pretentious but charismatic, gloriously...

Vollgepumpt mit Rote-Beete-Schnaps und Pillen fahren Billy Blackmore, seine Freundin und sein Bruder von einer Party nach Hause. Es ist mitten in der Nacht, die kurvige Straße hoch über Edinburgh ist leer – bis auf einen Fußgänger, der ihnen plötzlich auf die Motorhaube knallt. Panisch beseitigt...

Ein vogelwilder Höllentrip durch die schottischen Highlands! Whisky morgens, mittags und abends – so stellen sich Adam und seine drei Freunde ihr Wochenende auf der schottischen Insel Islay vor. Schließlich ist das idyllische Eiland weltberühmt für seine erlesenen Single Malts. Doch als...

Deine Frau verschwindet. Dein Sohn braucht dich. Und die Polizei glaubt dir nicht. »Ihre Frau hat Nathan heute nicht aus der Schule abgeholt. Ich hoffe, es gibt kein Problem?« Als Mark diesen Anruf von der Lehrerin seines Sohnes bekommt, denkt er sich nichts dabei. Wahrscheinlich steckt Lauren...