Let their way be dark

Next month sees the release of A RATTLE OF BONES, the third in my Rebecca Connolly series. As with the previous entry, THE BLOOD IS STILL, which began on the...

Birth of the Boys in Blue

I began my writing career with journalism and then non-fiction, specialising in true crime and Scottish criminal history. What follows is a short piece about the birth of the Glasgow...

New Rebecca Connolly thriller coming in August

The third in my Rebecca Connolly series will be hitting a shelf or site near you on August 5 from Polygon. Available in paperback and ebook from then, it will...

Making a drama out of a video

I took a trip down memory lane this weekend, which is funny because I’ve spent the past few days clearing out a lot of my past, but in this instance...

What did you do during lockdown, daddy?

How have you been coping with lockdown? That’s a question I’m sure many of us have been asked or have ourselves asked. Subtext – how you coping? Well, to tell...

SHORT STORY: The Dead of Night

THE DEAD OF NIGHT A Dominic Queste story By Douglas Skelton ‘There’s a madman in my brain. He gibbers between my thoughts.’ As a conversation opener it registers high on...

The Hollywood Ten

For those who follow me on that page of faces thing, for the past ten days I’ve been challenged to post images from ten films I love but with no...

DEVIL’S GALLOP: Cannibal Run

Scottish legends have travelled the globe and sparked the imagination of artists for centuries. One particularly grisly tale has helped spawn a notorious shocker and is now at the heart...

DEVIL’S GALLOP: Castle of the Hunter

Castle Stalker is another in our series of Most Photographed Castles in Scotland. When I made my original tour for the book, the rain lashed at me like a dominatrix...

DEVIL’S GALLOP: The guardhouse of the bloody valley

My Scotland is one of dark deeds and dark tales. Stories of ghosts and demons, of battles and massacres, of murder and mayhem. And cheap laughs, always cheap laughs. Here I travel to the borders - the debatable lands which for centuries were the killing fields for warring nations and noble families - to visit what is for me the most sinister castle I've ever seen.