Doug Johnstone Books in Order

Fifteen years after his best friend died falling from Arbroath's cliffs, David Lindsay is dragged home for a school reunion. When another person dies at the same spot, he must choose between running again and facing the past.

A volatile young singer leads his band on a chaotic winter tour across Scotland just as a record deal seems within reach. Drugs, fights, stalkers, and bad weather turn the road trip into a darkly funny search for identity.

Four old university friends head to Islay for a whisky-soaked weekend with cash, drugs, and too much ego. A fight on arrival turns the trip into a brutal, fast-moving nightmare with locals, police, and no easy way out.

After drunkenly hitting a man and fleeing, young journalist Billy Blackmore wakes to find he must cover the death himself. The victim is Edinburgh's biggest crime lord, and Billy is dragged into guilt, retribution, and violence.

Mark Douglas thinks his wife is simply late collecting their son, until the hours pass and panic takes over. As the police struggle for answers, old secrets and a shocking discovery tear open the truth about their marriage.

On her first day at an Edinburgh newspaper, intern Martha is put on the obituary desk. When a caller seems to kill himself mid-conversation, she starts chasing a mystery that connects to her parents and the city's music past.

Grieving after her son's suicide, Ellie spends her days near the Forth Road Bridge. After talking down another desperate teenager, she is drawn into a troubled family whose secrets may destroy her fragile hope of redemption.

At Kirkwall Airport, Finn Sullivan steps in to help the magnetic, volatile Maddie Pierce and is pulled into her orbit. Set against Orkney's harsh landscape, the story turns a chance meeting into a tight knot of shame, desire, and murder.

In an Edinburgh shaken by a new volcano, volcanologist Surtsey finds her boss and lover dead on a secret island trip. Hiding the affair only pulls her deeper into blackmail, suspicion, and the fear that someone knows exactly what she did.

After Jim Skelf dies, Dorothy, Jenny, and Hannah must keep the family funeral home and PI business afloat. A missing friend, secret payments, and a supposedly simple adultery case uncover buried trouble on every side.

Seventeen-year-old Tyler is dragged into burglaries by his violent siblings while trying to protect his little sister and mother. When a homeowner is stabbed, he is thrown into a fight against police, gangsters, and his own family.

When a car plows into an open grave during one of Dorothy Skelf's funerals, the family starts digging into the dead driver's life. At the same time, Jenny and Hannah are pulled toward troubles that make the case feel frighteningly close to home.

A faked death, an obsessive stalker, and an elderly man who says his late wife is tormenting him land the Skelf women in fresh trouble. As grief and old wounds close in, the cases become painfully personal.

A human foot in an Edinburgh park sends Dorothy Skelf into a dangerous investigation, while Jenny and Hannah face baffling cases of their own. With Jenny's violent ex still looming, the family's work turns personal again.

Back on their feet after earlier chaos, the Skelf women face a suspicious fire, a missing sister-in-law, and conspiracy theorists fixated on a retired astronaut. Strange reports from space make their latest round of cases feel even more unsettling.

After a meteor flashes over Edinburgh, Lennox, Ava, and Heather suffer catastrophic strokes and wake up cured. Their recovery seems tied to an alien creature on the shore, and rescuing it sends them running from police, abusers, and state forces.

A drone attack at a funeral, a missing choir singer, and a disturbed grave pull the Skelfs into another tangle of fear and loss. As old ghosts resurface and relationships strain, the family's fragile calm starts to crack.

Six months after first contact, Lennox and Heather are imprisoned at a secret military base with captured Enceladons, while Ava waits for a verdict. An escape plan becomes a fight over who gets to shape humanity's future.

Eighteen months later, the scattered survivors are pulled together again when Ava's young daughter needs urgent help. Their search leads to Greenland, where business interests, violent secrets, and strange attacks push the trilogy toward its final showdown.