Douglas Skelton
  • Home
  • Books
  • Blog
  • About Douglas
  • Media
  • Videos
  • Events
  • Contact
Home > Books > Fiction
Ship of Thieves

Ship of Thieves

Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Jonas Flynt/The Company of Rogues, Book 5
Genres: Crime, Fiction, Historical, Thriller
Tag: Pre-Order

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.

More info →
Book Nook, Stewarton
Kobo
Bookshop.org
Waterstones
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.

More info →
Hive
Blackwells
Kobo
Buy from Amazon Kindle
Waterstones
Bookshop.org
Book Nook
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.

More info →
Apple Books
Kobo
Blackwells
Waterstones
Bookshop.org
Buy from Amazon
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
Tag: NEW

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.

More info →
Bookshop.org
Waterstones
Buy from Amazon
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?

More info →
Buy from Amazon
Blackwells
Waterstones
Bookshop.org
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.

More info →
Bookshop.org
Blackwells
Polygon
Waterstones
Buy from Amazon
A Rattle of Bones

A Rattle of Bones

Series: Rebecca Connolly Series, Book 3
Genres: Crime, Fiction, Thriller
Tag: NEW

A modern link to a centuries old miscarriage of justice sets Rebecca Connolly on the road to another story.

But will she survive to tell the tale?

More info →
Blackwells
Bookshop.Org
Waterstones
Buy from Amazon
Devil’s Knock

Devil’s Knock

Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Davie McCall Series, Book 3
Genres: Crime, Fiction, Thriller
Tag: Recommended Books

Launched on 18 June 2015. 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.

More info →
Buy from Amazon
Buy from Amazon Kindle
Waterstones [Buy]
ePub [Buy]
Crow Bait

Crow Bait

Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Davie McCall Series, Book 2
Genres: Crime, Fiction, Thriller

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 drugs.

More info →
Buy from Amazon
Buy from Amazon Kindle
Waterstones [Buy]
ePUB [Buy]
Blood City

Blood City

Author: Douglas Skelton
Series: Davie McCall Series, Book 1
Genres: Crime, Fiction, Thriller

Meet Davie McCall - not your average henchman. Abused and tormented by his father for fifteen years, there is a darkness in him. Under the wing of Glasgow's Godfather he flourishes.

More info →
Buy from Amazon
Buy from Amazon Kindle
Waterstones [Buy]
ePUB [Buy]

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.

Copyright

This website, its text and imagery are ©Douglas Skelton. Book Imagery are copyright the respective publishers or artists.

Recent Posts

  • Carry on Sieging
  • Worlds within worlds
  • Square Go: The Battle of George Square 1919
  • Killer Queen, part two
  • Killer Queen (part one)

Admin

Login
↑