Douglas Skelton

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2010
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Company of Rogues

1 - An Honourable Thief (Sep-2022)
2 - A Thief's Justice (May-2023)
3 - A Grave for a Thief (Feb-2024)

Davie McCall

1 - Blood City (Sep-2014)
2 - Crow Bait (Dec-2014)
3 - Devil's Knock (Mar-2017)

Dominic Queste

1 - The Dead Don't Boogie (Jun-2016)

A Rebecca Connolly Thriller

1 - Thunder Bay (Feb-2020)
2 - The Blood is Still (Mar-2020)
3 - A Rattle of Bones (Aug-2021)
4 - Where Demons Hide (Jul-2022)
5 - Children of the Mist (Jul-2023)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Glasgow's Black Heart

    The largest city in Scotland, Glasgow is a city of culture; impressive architecture, enterprise, and endeavor; and warm-hearted, generous people. But it also has a dark side. Beneath the busy streets, the Victorian sandstone, and urban trendiness lie...

  • Blood City

    Davie McCall - 1

    Glasgow's mean streets just got meaner. Can Davie McCall survive? Meet Davie McCall. Beaten, bloody… brutal. Irrevocably damaged by the barbaric regime of an abusive father, and haunted by memories of his mother's murder, there is a darknes...

  • Crow Bait

    Davie McCall - 2

    They'll all be crow bait by the time I'm finished...Jail was hell for Davie McCall. Ten years down the line, freedom's no picnic either. It's 1990, there are new kings in the West of Scotland underworld, and Glasgow is awash with drug...

  • Open Wounds

    Davie McCall is tired. Tired of violence, tired of the Life. He's always managed to stay detached from the brutal nature of his line of work, but recently he has caught himself enjoying it. In the final instalment in the Davie McCall series old f...

  • The Dead Don't Boogie

    Dominic Queste - 1

    “Absolutely brilliant. A quick-witted and vastly entertaining novel that takes Douglas Skelton into the crime fiction big league.” Alex Gray“If you like your humour black and your detective novels hard boiled, The Dead Don’t Boogie is a cut a...

  • Devil's Knock

    Davie McCall - 3

    The Davie McCall saga returns in Devil's Knock. Davie McCall has darkness inside him. A darkness that haunts him, but also helps him do despicable things to those trying to cause him and his friends harm. When Dickie Himes is killed in a club own...

  • Tag - You're Dead

    Sam the butcher is missing, and maverick investigator Dominic Queste is on the case. But it’s not because he misses Sam’s prize-winning steak pies… A dangerous man has arrived in Glasgow. He’s no small-town crook, and he’s leaving a trail o...

  • The Janus Run

    "Bullet-ridden, bold, brilliant." Neil BroadfootWhen Coleman Lang finds his girlfriend Gina dead in his New York City apartment, he thinks nothing could be worse... until he becomes the prime suspect. Desperate to uncover the truth and clear his name...

  • Thunder Bay

    A Rebecca Connolly Thriller - 1

    LONGLISTED FOR THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE 2019When reporter Rebecca Connolly is told of Roddie Drummond's return to the island of Stoirm she senses a story. Fifteen years before he was charged with the murder of his lover, Mhairi. When he was found Not Pro...



  • The Blood is Still

    A Rebecca Connolly Thriller - 2

    When the body of a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is discovered on the site of the Battle of Culloden, journalist Rebecca Connolly takes up the story for the Chronicle. Meanwhile, a film being made about the '45 Rebellion has enraged th...

  • A Rattle of Bones

    A Rebecca Connolly Thriller - 3

    Old sins cast a long shadow in this unrelenting thriller by the author of Thunder Bay.When banners proclaiming the innocence of James Stewart spring up at the gravesite of his famous namesake -- a clan leader who was falsely accused of murder and han...

  • Where Demons Hide

    A Rebecca Connolly Thriller - 4

    "Fast-paced and straight to the point -- like a well-aimed literary projectile" -- Times Scotland Set amid the dramatic beauty of the Scottish Highlands and threaded with Highland history and lore, the latest Rebecca Connolly thriller is another...

  • An Honourable Thief

    A Company of Rogues - 1

    Introducing Jonas Flynt. Gambler. Thief. Killer. Man of honour.Longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2023'Fast, furious and with a glint of gallows humour, this is high-octane historical fiction' Daily Mail'Swashbuckling action against a vivid historic...

  • A Thief's Justice

    A Company of Rogues - 2

    London, 1716. Revenge is a dish best served ice-cold…’An immersive, action-packed thriller with intrigue in the air and threats around every corner’ The Herald’Great fun ... the language is colourful and the action never stops’ Laura Shephe...

  • Children of the Mist

    A Rebecca Connolly Thriller - 5

  • A Grave for a Thief

    A Company of Rogues - 3

    England, 1716. The only certainty in a thief’s life… is death.Christopher Templeton is a lawyer whose conscience troubles him. He knows many of the secrets of The Fellowship, the shadowy group profiting from the civil unrest in the nation, and ha...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Douglas Skelton has published 16 books.

Douglas Skelton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Grave for a Thief, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Douglas Skelton, Glasgow's Black Heart, was published in January 2010.

Yes. Douglas Skelton has 4 series.
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