News that many of Alistair MacLean’s titles are to be republished is welcome.
Bloody Scotland guilty of enthralling readers and sentencing them to a life sentence of reading Well. Bloody Scotland 2019 has come and gone in a blur. I’m still completely and […]
It doesn’t seem like a year since I was last in Stirling for Bloody Scotland and yet, here we are again. This coming weekend crime writers will descend on the […]
It seems a bit of a stretch from the lunacy of Carry on Sleuthing to helping build a drama designed to showcase the workings of a court room. But that’s […]
It has taken me some time to create this post – events overtook me – however, let me state right here and now that I am chuffed to bits to […]
Madness. That’s the only word for it. Let me add another. Utter madness. To travel across Scotland, West to East, in a single day, visiting five independent bookshops along the […]
I’m heading north next week, hitting the road for, if not to, Thunder Bay. Yes, I’m packing my bag again and firing up my rusty steed. I’ve got my CDs […]
My name is Douglas and I am a movie fan.Yes, that will come as a surprise to many of you, as it’s not something I talk about very often. (If […]
With the explosion in popularity of true crime, I’ve been asked by a few people of late if I would ever consider a return to the genre. Most recently, it […]
Those kind folks at Polygon have gathered some of the glowing reviews for Thunder Bay. Here are some extracts: ‘The risks Skelton took in creating Thunder Bay have paid off […]