The discovery of a human foot in an Edinburgh park, the inexplicable circumstances of a dying woman, and the missing daughter of Jenny's violent ex-husband present the Skelf women with their most challenging – and deadly – cases yet…_______________Keeping on top of the family funeral directors' and private-investigation businesses is no easy task for the Skelf women, and when matriarch Dorothy discovers a human foot while walking the dog, a perplexing case pr...

Get the FIRST SIX books in Doug Johnstone's addictive, darkly funny and unmissable The Skelfs series in one GREAT-VALUE Box Set.When family patriarch Jim dies, three generations of Edinburgh women – widow Dorothy, daughter Jenny and granddaughter Hannah – take over the family funeral directors and PI businesses. From missing people and faked deaths to gangland vendettas and graveyard secrets, their investigations pull them into danger in a series of tense, ...

Running private-investigator and funeral-home businesses means trouble is never far away, and the Skelf women take on their most perplexing, chilling cases yet in Book Two of the darkly funny, devastatingly tense and addictive Skelfs series!***Longlisted for Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year***'Compelling, compassionate … just brilliant. This series gets better with every book. I cannot get enough of the Skelfs' Mark Billingham...

Ava, Lennox and Heather make contact with alien Sandy and head for a profound confrontation … The awe-inspiring, exquisitely moving sequel to The Space Between Us, as seen on BBC Two's Between the Covers.`A barnstorming thriller … and a wonderful and radical sense of a greater, wider way of seeing life on our planet´ Martin MacInnes`Terrifyingly plausible and an excellent allegory for our times … I'll be recommending this ...

Drones, gangland vendettas, a missing choir singer, disturbances in the cemetery, PTSD, panpsychism, and secrets from the past … This can ONLY mean one thing! The Skelfs are back, and things are as nail-biting, tense and warmly funny as ever!`The persistence of love in the Skelf household, no matter what fate flings at it, is reassuring and life-affirming´ The Times`The Skelfs feel like family – their joys are my joys, their pains ...

When volcanologist Surtsey finds her married lover dead, she pockets his phone and makes the fatal decision to keep her discovery secret … but someone has been watching…'A cracking and highly original thriller' Mark Billingham'You don't read Fault Lines so much as you white-knuckle your way through its twists and turns' Megan Abbott'A superb, highly original psychological chiller' Steve Cavanagh

A faked death, an obsessive stalker, an old man claiming he's being abused by the ghost of his late wife, and a devastating spectre from the past. The Skelfs are back in another warmly funny, explosive thriller, and this time things are more than personal… **SHORTLISTED for Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year** `A new outing for the Skelfs deserves dancing in the streets of Edinburgh´ Val McDermid `Tense, funny and deeply moving´ Mark Billingham `An engrossing and beautifully wr...

Ava, Lennox and Heather make contact with alien Sandy and head for a profound confrontation … The awe-inspiring, exquisitely moving sequel to The Space Between Us, as seen on BBC Two's Between the Covers.`A barnstorming thriller … and a wonderful and radical sense of a greater, wider way of seeing life on our planet´ Martin MacInnes`Terrifyingly plausible and an excellent allegory for our times … I' ll be recommending this...

When three people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake completely recovered, they're convinced their ordeal is connected to the alien creature discovered on a nearby beach … an adrenaline-soaked, deeply humane, life-affirming first-contact novel from one of Scotland's most revered authors…**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023**'All the drive, curiosity and wonder of his crime and mystery novels … sci...

Lennox, Vonnie and Ava head to Greenland to meet up with Heather, Sandy and the Enceladons, commencing an epic showdown that will change everything … The emotive, devastating yet ultimately life-affirming conclusion to the bestselling Enceladons Trilogy, as seen on BBC2's Between the Covers… `An affecting and thought-provoking read. Johnstone's worldbuilding is top notch in this pacy eco-alien tale of peril and hope´ Tendai Huchu `Doug Johnstone has emerged as the unholy, octopoid lovechil...

The discovery of a human foot in an Edinburgh park, the inexplicable circumstances of a dying woman, and the missing daughter of Jenny's violent ex-husband present the Skelf women with their most challenging – and deadly – cases yet… Book THREE in the addictive The Skelfs series!'Simply stunning. Tense, funny and deeply moving' Mark Billingham'If you loved Iain Banks, you'll devour the Skelfs series' Erin Kelly'Nobo...

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 Scotland's finest crime writers.SHORTLISTED for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year***BOOK OF THE YEAR in SCOTSMAN***'It's a lovely, sad tale, beautifully told and full of understanding' The Times'The most powerful and moving book from John...