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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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Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay

£8.99eBook: £1.89
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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The Blood is Still

The Blood is Still

£8.99eBook: £2.99
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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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?

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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 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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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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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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