Douglas Skelton

Douglas Skelton is a Scottish writer of crime fiction and non-fiction.

Biography

Skelton was born in Glasgow. Before turning to writing full-time, he had been a bank clerk, tax officer, shelf stacker, meat porter, taxi driver, reporter, investigator and editor. While his non-fiction charts the true life exploits of murderers, criminals and cause celebres, his fiction settings are invariably set in his home town of Glasgow or the windswept Scottish highlands.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

In August 2025, Skelton was a guest on the Off the Shelf podcast as part of a feature on the McIlvanney Prize[15].

Bibliography

Non-fiction

  • 1992 — Blood on the Thistle
  • 1992 — Frightener
  • 1994 — No Final Solution
  • 2003 — Deadlier than the Male
  • 2004 — My Bloody Valentine
  • 2005 — Indian Peter
  • 2008 — Dark Heart
  • 2009 — Glasgow's Black Heart
  • 2017 — Scotland (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)

Fiction

  • 2013 — Blood City[16] — Davie McCall
  • 2014 — Crow Bait[17] — Davie McCall
  • 2015 — Devil's Knock[18] — Davie McCall
  • 2016 — Open Wounds[19] — Davie McCall
  • 2017 — Tag - You're Dead[20] — Dominic Queste
  • 2018 — The Janus Run[21] — Coleman Lang
  • 2019 — Thunder Bay[22][23][24] — Rebecca Connolly #1
  • 2020 — The Blood is Still[25] — Rebecca Connolly #2
  • 2021 — A Rattle of Bones[26][27] — Rebecca Connolly #3
  • 2022 — Where Demons Hide[28][29][30] — Rebecca Connolly #4
  • 2022 — An Honourable Thief[31] — Jonas Flynt
  • 2023 — A Thief's Justice[32] — Jonas Flynt #2

References

  1. ↑ "Skelton, Douglas". The Crime Writers’ Association.
  2. ↑ "Douglas Skelton | Birlinn Ltd - Independent Scottish Publisher - buy books online". Birlinn Ltd.
  3. ↑ "Author: Douglas Skelton". Scottish Book Trust.
  4. ↑ "Once Upon a True Crime: Meet the Authors - Douglas Skelton". Crime+Investigation UK.
  5. ↑ "An Evening with Authors Alex Gray and Douglas Skelton". Dundee City Council.
  6. ↑ McDonald, Sally. "Meet the author: Glaswegian crime writer, Douglas Skelton".
  7. ↑ Glasgow, What's On. "Alex Gray and Douglas Skelton at The Mitchell Library and Theatre, Glasgow City Centre". What's On Glasgow.
  8. ↑ Braidwood, Alistair (April 29, 2019). "Storm Warning: A Review Of Douglas Skelton's Thunder Bay…". Scots Whay Hae!.
  9. ↑ "A+E's fresh twist on true crime". Royal Television Society. May 9, 2022.
  10. ↑ Reilly, Vikki (October 8, 2018). "The Janus Run: A Q & A With Douglas Skelton". Books from Scotland.
  11. ↑ "Book review: The Blood Is Still, by Douglas Skelton". The Scotsman. March 19, 2020.
  12. ↑ Hamilton, Jane (August 2, 2016). "Bloody Scotland: Douglas Skelton on being fugitive of the Ice Cream Wars". Daily Record.
  13. ↑ "Crime writer Douglas Skelton remembers Tommy Campbell". HeraldScotland.
  14. ↑ "Welcome to the official website of the celebrated and best selling Scottish crime writer Val McDermid…".
  15. ↑ https://open.spotify.com/episode/6EWFnf6dB6Zq6QsURPECcx?si=BqBNd78YS-auPuvHEnUtew
  16. ↑ Skelton, Douglas (2 September 2013). Blood City. ISBN 978-1908373717.
  17. ↑ Skelton, Douglas (1 July 2015). Crow Bait. ISBN 978-1910021828.
  18. ↑ Skelton, Douglas (1 June 2015). Devil's Knock. ISBN 978-1910021811.
  19. ↑ Skelton, Douglas (31 March 2016). Open Wounds. ISBN 978-1910745335.
  20. ↑ Skelton, Douglas (27 April 2017). Tag - You're Dead. ISBN 978-1-910192-72-6.
  21. ↑ Skelton, Douglas (20 September 2018). The Janus Run. ISBN 978-1-912235-25-4.
  22. ↑ Fiction, Australian Crime (May 22, 2019). "Thunder Bay (Douglas Skelton) - book review".
  23. ↑ "Polygon nets three more in Skelton's 'enthralling' Rebecca Connolly series". The Bookseller.
  24. ↑ Skelton, Douglas (7 March 2019). Thunder Bay. ISBN 978-1-84697-473-1.
  25. ↑ Skelton, Douglas (5 March 2020). The Blood is Still. ISBN 978-1-84697-530-1.
  26. ↑ Piotrowska, Alice (September 20, 2021). "Scottish Crime Writing: A Rattle of Bones by Douglas Skelton". Scottish Books International.
  27. ↑ Skelton, Douglas (5 August 2021). The Rattle of Bones. ISBN 978-1-84697-563-9.
  28. ↑ "Where Demons Hide by Douglas Skelton: Undiscovered Scotland Book Review". www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk.
  29. ↑ Ritchie, Gayle. "Douglas Skelton's new crime thriller is set in the Highlands 'with elements of the occult'".
  30. ↑ Skelton, Douglas (7 July 2022). Where Demons Hide. ISBN 978-1-84697-598-1.
  31. ↑ Skelton, Douglas (22 September 2022). An Honourable Thief. ISBN 978-1-80436-015-6.
  32. ↑ Skelton, Douglas (18 May 2023). A Thief's Justice. ISBN 978-1-80436-089-7.
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