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14Feb

Libraries must be protected

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Libraries must be protected. Here I present a love letter I wrote to my favourite Glasgow library

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Tags: Mitchell Library
12Feb

Marking five lustrums

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I made an astonishing discovery this morning in the shower.

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Tags: Citizens Theatre Davie McCall Dominic Queste Douglas Skelton
3Dec

Reaction to The Dead Don’t Boogie

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A look back at reactions to the first Dominic Queste thriller

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Tags: Crime Book Reviews Douglas Skelton The Dead Don't Boogie
16Oct

MY SCOTLAND: 1. Away with the Fairies

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My Scotland is one of dark deeds and dark tales. Stories of ghosts and demons, of battles and massacres, of murder and mayhem. In the first of an occasional series telling some of these yarns and sharing my pictures, I talk of the Reverend Robert Kirk, who legend tells us found himself away with the fairies.

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Tags: Aberfoyle Douglas Skelton Robert Kirk
15Oct

Character building

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How much of himself/herself does an author put in his/her characters?

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Tags: Davie McCall Dominic Queste Douglas Skelton The Dead Don't Boogie
12Sep

Stirling work from all involved at Bloody Scotland

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Another tremendous weekend of crime writing

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Tags: Aline Templeton Bill Daly Bloody Scotland Caro Ramsay Catriona McPherson Chris Brookmyre Craig Robertson Craig Russell Craig Sisterson Gillian Galbraith Gordon GJ Brown Graeme Macrae Burnet Matt Bendoris Michael J Malone Michael Ridpath Nel Broadfoot Russel D. McLean Steve Cavanagh Stuart MacBride Susi Holliday. Luca Veste Theresa Talbot Val McDermid
29Aug

As one series ends, another begins

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After four Davie McCall books, I decided a change of pace was called for.

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Tags: Caro Ramsay Contraband Davie McCall Dominic Queste Douglas Skelton Michael J Malone The Dead Don't Boogie Waterstones Argyle Street Waterstones Ayr
20Aug

Reviews – Books from Luca Veste and Russel D. McLean

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Reviews of ‘Then She Was Gone’ and ‘And When I Die’

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9Aug

REVIEW: A Time of Torment by John Connolly

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I heap praise upon the head of a master storyteller.

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Tags: A Time of Torment Charlie Parker Hodder & Stoughton John Connolly
26Jul

If it’s Tuesday, it must be…

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It’s been a busy year so far. It doesn’t look as if it’s slowing down any! Thank goodness.

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Tags: Aye Write Bloody Scotland Bute Noir Byres Road Book Festival Caro Ramsay Crime Factor Douglas Skelton Gordon GJ Brown Mark Leggatt McIlvanney Prize 2016 Michael. Malone Neil Broadfoot Open Wounds Peter Burnett The Dead Don't Boogie Theresa Talbot Tidelines Waterstones ASrgyle Street Waterstones Livingston
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Douglas Skelton

A crime writer steeped in the real stories of Scotland, Douglas Skelton worked for the law and as a newspaper editor. That gritty experience of life's underside is distilled in his work.

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