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A Thief’s Revenge

A Thief’s Revenge

Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Jonas Flynt/The Company of Rogues, Book 6
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A murder cries out for vengeance. A rogue answers the call.

For six long years, fired by cold rage, Jonas Flynt has hunted the man who paved the way for the murder of his son across the Caribbean and American Colonies. Many a pirate was delivered to justice during the chase, but Flynt never caught up with the elusive Dan Hawke.

Learning that his quarry has returned to London, Flynt races across the Atlantic in pursuit.
Back in his old hunting ground, he finds lies and betrayal are now the norm. During his lengthy absence, alliances have shifted among old friends and older enemies and it's hard to tell friend from foe…

Will Flynt be able track Hawke down at last through this web of intrigue? Or will his years-long quest for revenge have been in vain?

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Ship of Thieves

Ship of Thieves

Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Jonas Flynt/The Company of Rogues, Book 5
Genres: Crime, Fiction, Historical, Thriller
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Dead thieves tell no tales...

Jonas Flynt’s stepmother, Mercy, has been abducted from Edinburgh and carried back to the West Indies by her former owner.

Gideon Flynt his father, has followed in hot pursuit, but Cassie, Jonas's first love, knows he is not the man he once was and appeals to Flynt for help. Naturally, he agrees.

Against Colonel Nathaniel Charters’ wishes, he sails for the Caribbean, where he will unwittingly join forces with the most notorious pirate of all time, Blackbeard.

But this time he may be out of his depth.

An utterly gripping historical crime thriller set on the high seas from the McIlvanney Prize longlisted author of An Honourable Thief.

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The Other Side of Fear

The Other Side of Fear

Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Rebecca Connolly Series, Book 7
Genres: Crime, Thriller
Tag: Out Now

There are two sides to everything, and fear isn't any different – sometimes you have to push through to the other side . . .

Someone has big plans for Stoirm, and they'll stop at nothing to get what they want.

Investigative journalist Rebecca Connolly returns to the Scottish island to find out who is terrorising the locals who favour a community buyout of the estate over plans by a faceless consortium to turn it into an upmarket playground for the rich and shameless.

But before she even sets off, she is threatened by two men, men who are no strangers to inflicting pain. Rebecca being Rebecca, this only serves to heighten her curiosity, and she heads for the island, leaving behind romantic troubles and, she thinks, a young woman set on making her name in journalism.

It isn't long before threats become murder and Rebecca finds herself in mortal danger from an old adversary among the breaking waves of Thunder Bay.

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A Thief’s Blood

A Thief’s Blood

Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Jonas Flynt/The Company of Rogues, Book 4
Genres: Crime, Fiction, Historical, Thriller
Tag: Out Now

'Flynt is as bold and ruthless a killer-agent as James Bond, and even more resourceful' Scotsman

A city on the brink of civil war. A madman pulling the strings.

A family is found butchered in a dismal room in the Rookery, London’s poorest district. Not even their small children are left alive.

Most of the authorities pay scant attention, except for Thieftaker General Jonathan Wild. Intrigued by this development, Colonel Nathaniel Charters tasks his most trusted operative, Jonas Flynt, with discovering why.

When another family is murdered just as brutally, Flynt uncovers evidence of a simmering conflict between rival gangs, with Wild seemingly desperate to keep a lid on the slaughter.

The question for Flynt is how deep is his new friend The Admiral, a gang leader, involved, and is he capable of killing innocents? Or is there someone else in London, more dangerous and more deranged, with blood on their hands?

A scintillating serial killer thriller set amidst the dirt and grime of Georgian London, the next thrilling instalment in the McIlvanney longlisted Company of Rogues series.

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The Hollow Mountain

The Hollow Mountain

Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Rebecca Connolly Series, Book 6
Genres: Crime, Fiction, Thriller
Tag: Out Now

'The Hollow Mountain is possibly the best yet' - S.G. MacLean

The Tunnel Tigers were an elite group of construction workers who specialised in a lucrative but hazardous profession – blasting tunnels through mountains and under rivers, in dangerous conditions few men could endure.

Alice Larkin, the headstrong daughter of a millionaire and former news reporter, claims her lover, a Tunnel Tiger, died in mysterious circumstances many years ago, and she wants journalist Rebecca Connolly to investigate.

Intrigued, Rebecca throws herself into investigating the story, but she soon comes face to face with an old adversary. Family legacies and influential reputations are at stake – and danger is shockingly close to home.

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A Grave for a Thief

A Grave for a Thief

Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Jonas Flynt/The Company of Rogues, Book 3
Genres: Crime, Fiction, Historical, Thriller
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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 has intimated to the Company of Rogues that he is willing to share them.

The problem is, he has vanished. Jonas Flynt – thief, gambler, killer – still recovering from a duel with death upon the frozen Thames, is tasked with finding him.

The trail takes him from the dark slums of London to a quiet village in the north of England, where all is not as it seems. But while he hunts for the missing man, someone else may be stalking him… someone with murder in their heart.

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Children of the Mist

Children of the Mist

Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Rebecca Connolly Series
Genres: Crime, Fiction, Thriller

We come from the mist, and to the mist we will return . . .

Fergus MacGregor told people he was going to Pitlochry for the day but was never seen again. Years later, Rebecca witnesses his deeply religious mother holding an annual ritual in the ancient Black Wood of Rannoch, a place Fergus loved because of its connections to the outlawed MacGregor clan, the Children of the Mist.

What happened that day in this last vestige of the great Caledonian Forest? Does a family feud hold the key? Does an old recluse have the answers? Or is there something malevolent hiding among the ancient trees?

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A Thief’s Justice

A Thief’s Justice

Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Jonas Flynt/The Company of Rogues
Genres: Crime, Historical, Thriller
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London, 1716. Revenge is a dish best served ice-cold…

The city is caught in the vice-like grip of a savage winter. Even the Thames has frozen over. But for Jonas Flynt – thief, gambler, killer – the chilling elements are the least of his worries…

Justice Geoffrey Dumont has been found dead at the base of St Paul’s cathedral, and a young male sex-worker, Sam Yates, has been taken into custody for the murder. Yates denies all charges, claiming he had received a message to meet the judge at the exact time of death.

The young man is a friend of courtesan Belle St Clair, and she asks Flynt to investigate. As Sam endures the horrors of Newgate prison, they must do everything in their power to uncover the truth and save an innocent life, before the bodies begin to pile up.

But time is running out. And the gallows beckon...

A totally enrapturing portrayal of eighteenth-century London, and a rapier-like crime thriller, perfect for fans of Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Antonia Hodgson and Ambrose Parry.

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A Honourable Thief

A Honourable Thief

Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Jonas Flynt/The Company of Rogues, Book 1
Genres: Crime, Historical, Thriller
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The must-read historical thriller of 2022!

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Where Demons Hide

Where Demons Hide

Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Rebecca Connolly Series, Book 4
Genres: Crime, Fiction, Thriller
Tag: Out Now

Murder, magic and malevolent matriarchs mix in the 4th Rebecca Connolly Thriller.

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The Blood is Still

The Blood is Still

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Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Rebecca Connolly Series, Book 2
Genre: Crime

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 the right-wing group Spirit of the Gael which is connected to a shadowy group called New Dawn linked to death threats and fake anthrax deliveries to Downing Street and Holyrood. When a second body – this time in the Redcoat uniform of the government army – is found in Inverness, Rebecca finds herself drawn ever deeper into the mystery. Are the murders connected to politics, a local gang war or something else entirely?

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Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay

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Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Rebecca Connolly Series, Book 1
Genres: Crime, Thriller

When 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 Proven, Roddie left the island and no one, apart from his sister, knew where he was or what he was doing.

Now he has returned for his mother's funeral - and it will spark an explosion of hatred, bitterness and violence.

Defying her editor's wishes, Rebecca joins forces with local photographer Chazz Wymark to dig into the secrets surrounding Mhairi's death, and her mysterious last words of Thunder Bay, the secluded spot on the west coast of the island where, according to local lore, the souls of the dead set off into the after life. When another murder takes place, and the severe weather that gives the island its name hits, she is ideally placed to uncover the truth about what happened that night fifteen years before.

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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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