Thunder Bay

A Rebecca Connolly Thriller

Douglas Skelton

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English

Birlinn Ltd
01 April 2019

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery; Thriller & suspense

Series: The Rebecca Connolly Thrillers

Longlisted for the Mcilvanney Prize 2019

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.

By: Douglas Skelton
Imprint: Birlinn Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 246g
ISBN: 9781846974731
ISBN 10: 1846974739
Series: The Rebecca Connolly Thrillers
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 April 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Douglas Skelton was born in Glasgow. He has been a bank clerk, tax officer, taxi driver (for two days), wine waiter (for two hours), journalist and investigator. He has written eleven true crime and Scottish criminal history books but now concentrates on fiction. His novel Open Wounds (2016) was longlisted for the McIlvanney Award. Douglas has investigated real-life crime for Glasgow solicitors and was involved in a long-running campaign to right the famous Ice-Cream Wars miscarriage of justice.

Reviews for Thunder Bay: A Rebecca Connolly Thriller

'You follow the plot like an eager dog, nose turning this way and that, not catching every single clue but quivering as you lunge towards a blood-splattered denouement' * Daily Express * 'positively delights in the city's dark underbelly complete with knives, razors, guns and gangs... Fierce, all too believable, and with a clear ear for the Glasgow dialect' * Daily Mail * '[Skelton has] taken well to fiction, skilfully building up the atmosphere, developing the characters and keeping the unexpected twists coming along' * The Herald * 'Our finest emerging crime fiction talent' * Quentin Jardine *