Inhalt: Three generations of women from the Skelfs family take over the family funeral home and PI businesses in the first book of a taut, gripping page-turning and darkly funny new series. ***Shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Book of the Year*** ***Shortlisted for the Amazon Publishing Capital Crime Awards*** 'An engrossing and beautifully written tale that bears all the Doug Johnstone hallmarks in its warmth and darkly comic undertones' Herald Scotland 'Gripping and blackly humorous' Observer 'I was addicted from the first page; gripping, gritty and darkly funny as hell' Erin Kelly 'A Dark Matter showcases a writer at the peak of his powers, except that with every book, Doug Johnstone just gets better' Val McDermid _________________ Meet the Skelfs: well-known Edinburgh family, proprietors of a long-established funeral-home business, and private investigators... When patriarch Jim dies, it's left to his wife Dorothy, daughter Jenny and granddaughter Hannah to take charge of both businesses, kicking off an unexpected series of events. Dorothy discovers mysterious payments to another woman, suggesting that Jim wasn't the husband she thought he was. Hannah's best friend Mel has vanished from university, and the simple adultery case that Jenny takes on leads to something stranger and far darker than any of them could have imagined. As the women struggle to come to terms with their grief, and the demands of the business threaten to overwhelm them, secrets from the past emerge, which change everything... A compelling, tense and shocking thriller and a darkly funny and warm portrait of a family in turmoil, A Dark Matter introduces a cast of unforgettable characters, marking the start of an addictive new series. _________________ 'A fiendish mystery that is also deeply moving and laced with suitably dark humour ... set to be one of the books of the year' Mark Billingham 'Emotionally complex, richly layered and darkly funny. An addictive blend of Case Histories and Six Feet Under' Chris Brookmyre 'This dark but touching thriller makes for a thoroughly enjoyable slice of Edinburgh noir' Mary Paulson-Ellis 'This enjoyable mystery is also a touching and often funny portrayal of grief, as the three tough but tender main characters pick up the pieces and carry on: more, please' Guardian 'A tense ride ... strong, believable characters' Kerry Hudson, Big Issue 'They are all wonderful characters: flawed, funny, brave â?" and well set up for a series. I wouldn't call him cosy, but there's warmth to Johnstone's writing' Sunday Times Umfang: 300 S. ISBN: 978-1-912374-99-1
Inhalt: A pulsatingly tense psychological thriller and a breathtakingly brutal, beautiful and deeply moving story of a good kid in the wrong family, from one of Scotlandâ??s finest crime writers. SHORTLISTED for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year ***BOOK OF THE YEAR in SCOTSMAN*** â??Itâ??s a lovely, sad tale, beautifully told and full of understandingâ?? The Times â??The most powerful and moving book from Johnstone yet â?" a calling card that no-one can ignoreâ?? Scotsman â??This may be Doug Johnstoneâ??s best book yet. An unsparing yet sympathetic depiction of Edinburghâ??s ignored underclass, with terrific characterisation. Tense, pacey, filmicâ?? Ian Rankin ____________________ There are two sides to every familyâ?¦ Seventeen-year-old Tyler lives in one of Edinburghâ??s most deprived areas. Coerced into robbing rich peopleâ??s homes by his bullying older siblings, heâ??s also trying to care for his little sister and his drug-addict mum. On a job, his brother Barry stabs a homeowner and leaves her for dead, but thatâ??s just the beginning of their nightmare, because the woman is the wife of Edinburghâ??s biggest crime lord, Deke Holt. With the police and the Holts closing in, and his shattered family in devastating danger, Tyler meets posh girl Flick in another strangerâ??s house, and he thinks she may just be his salvation â?¦ unless he drags her down too. ____________________ â??A cracking story, great characters â?¦ itâ??s also about something and really addresses the â??whys" of crimeâ?? Mark Billingham â??Itâ??s as psychologically rich as it is harrowing. Iâ??ve come to expect nothing less from Doug Johnstone, one of the genreâ??s premiere writersâ?? Megan Abbott â??Breakers again shows that Doug Johnstone is a noir heavyweight and a master of gritty realism. This may be his finest novel yetâ?? Willy Vlautin â??Doug Johnstone is for me the perfect free-range writer, respectful of conventions but never bound by them, never hemmed-in. Each book is a different world, each book something new in this worldâ?? James Sallis â??Bloody brilliant â?¦ This is premier league crime-writingâ?? Martyn Waites â??A tough, gritty and effective ride into the dark side of Edinburghâ?? Douglas Skelton â??Pacy, harrowing and occasionally brutal â?¦ it had me in tears at the endâ?¦â?? Paddy Magrane â??Both horrifying and uplifting, and one of those books I looked forward to picking up each time I had a moment to read â?¦ I hope it does as well as it deserves toâ?? James Oswald â??Gripping, dark, fast, but still somehow full of heartâ?? Louise Beech â??A brooding, intensely dark thriller with a defiant beating heart. Evocative, heartbreaking and hopeful â?" the power of the human spirit to shine in the most desperate place â?¦ STUNNINGâ?? Miranda Dickinson Umfang: 300 S. ISBN: 978-1-912374-68-7
Inhalt: When volcanologist Surtsey finds her married lover dead, she pockets his phone and makes the fatal decision to keep her discovery secret â?¦ but someone has been watchingâ?¦ â??A cracking and highly original thrillerâ?? Mark Billingham â??You donâ??t read Fault Lines so much as you white-knuckle your way through its twists and turnsâ?? Megan Abbott â??A superb, highly original psychological chillerâ?? Steve Cavanagh ____________________ In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, where a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new volcano in the Firth of Forth, and where tremors are an everyday occurrence, volcanologist Surtsey makes a shocking discovery. On a clandestine trip to new volcanic island The Inch, to meet Tom, her lover and her boss, she finds his lifeless body, and makes the fatal decision to keep their affair, and her discovery, a secret. Desperate to know how he died, but also terrified sheâ??ll be exposed, Surtseyâ??s life quickly spirals into a nightmare when someone makes contact â?" someone who claims to know what sheâ??s doneâ?¦ ____________________ â??An explosive thrillerâ?? Daily Record â??A cracking-good thriller with some seriously good writing and some beautifully designed characters â?¦ Hereâ??s a writer pushing the thriller envelope, giving the reader not just a good novel, but also a unique oneâ?? David Pitt, Booklist â??Novel and elegant â?¦ it is the bookâ??s thought-provoking and heart-breaking moments that carry the reader through the story and which resonate most at the endâ?? Scotsman â??Both a meditation on the volatility of human nature and a gripping thriller with plenty of twists and turns â?¦ An original and addictive thriller, as intelligent as it is shockingâ?? Foreword Reviews â??Richly characterised, beautifully crafted, this is a book that you truly inhabitâ?? Emma Kavanagh â??Scotlandâ??s truest exponent of noirâ?? Chris Brookmyre 'A subtly off-kilter speculative thriller that builds to a truly explosive endingâ?? Eva Dolan â??A pacey, gripping readâ?? Louise Voss â??Sexy, fearless and addictiveâ?? Helen FitzGerald â??Johnstone weaves his compelling and original tale with great skill and elegance from the gripping beginning to a tense and explosive ending' Amanda Jennings â??Brilliantly unputdownableâ?? Martyn Waites â??Superbâ?? Luca Veste â??Blending powerful imagination and plotting, this is the work of a writer at the top of his gameâ?? Stuart Neville â??Plays with every single emotionâ?? Susi Holliday â??This had me hooked from the first pageâ?? Cass Green â??Poignant, gripping and packed with seismic shocksâ?? Paddy Magrane â??Incisive, intelligent and imaginativeâ?? Michael J. Malone â??I was completely swept awayâ?? Caroline Mitchell â??Hits you lie a seismic shockâ?? Douglas Skelton â??Grabs you by the throat in the first chapterâ?? Neil Broadfoot Umfang: 260 S. ISBN: 978-1-912374-16-8
Inhalt: Vollgepumpt mit Rote-Beete-Schnaps und Pillen fahren Billy Blackmore, seine Freundin und sein Bruder von einer Party nach Hause. Es ist mitten in der Nacht, die kurvige Straße hoch über Edinburgh ist leer ? bis auf einen Fußgänger, der ihnen plötzlich auf die Motorhaube knallt. Panisch beseitigt das Trio alle Spuren und fährt davon. Doch der Albtraum nimmt kein Ende: Als angehender Gerichtsreporter bekommt Billy den Auftrag, über den tödlichen Unfall mit Fahrerflucht zu berichten ... Schlagworte: FH Thriller / Spannung, FYT Belletristik in Übersetzung Umfang: 209 S. ISBN: 978-3-641-15820-0
Inhalt: Deine Frau verschwindet. Dein Sohn braucht dich. Und die Polizei glaubt dir nicht. »Ihre Frau hat Nathan heute nicht aus der Schule abgeholt. Ich hoffe, es gibt kein Problem?« Als Mark diesen Anruf von der Lehrerin seines Sohnes bekommt, denkt er sich nichts dabei. Wahrscheinlich steckt Lauren nur im Stau. Als er sie nicht erreichen kann, macht er sich keine Gedanken. Wahrscheinlich ist nur der Akku leer. Doch als Lauren über Nacht nicht nach Hause kommt, beginnt Marks schlimmster Albtraum. Schlagworte: FYT Belletristik in Übersetzung Umfang: 217 S. ISBN: 978-3-641-14435-7
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