Douglas Skelton Books in Order

An early true-crime collection that revisits notorious Scottish murders from the twentieth century. Skelton focuses on the cases, the investigations and the grim human stories that lasted long after the headlines faded.

Skelton and Lisa Brownlie examine the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars, where intimidation and gang rivalry ended in a devastating family fire. The book also follows the disputed convictions and the long fight to reopen the case.

A compact guide to Scotland, packed with history, culture, famous names and unexpected facts. It is an easy, lively introduction for readers who want a broad sense of the country without wading through a textbook.

A compact collection of true cases built around violent death and its aftermath. Skelton moves briskly from one grim story to the next, keeping the focus on motive, damage and the lives torn apart.

A survey of unsolved Scottish murders and disappearances, from baffling one-off cases to suspected links between killings. The fascination here is not neat answers, but the stubborn clues and loose ends that remain.

A lively trip through Scotland's dark past, where history, folklore and black humour meet. Castles, witches, murderers and battlefields all get their turn in a book that treats the country's legends as rough living stories.

Skelton gathers stories of female killers and criminals from Scottish history, showing how violence, greed and desperation cut across every stereotype. It is brisk, grim and often surprising.

A true-crime collection centred on love, jealousy and obsession gone rotten. Skelton looks at Scottish cases where romance curdled into betrayal, violence and murder.

The extraordinary true story of Peter Williamson, kidnapped from Aberdeen as a boy and sent to America. War, captivity, escape and a long legal battle follow before he reinvents himself back in Scotland.

A tour through Scotland's most notorious modern criminals, from gangsters and bank robbers to fraudsters and poisoners. Skelton looks at how they operated, how they were pursued, and why their names stuck.

A history of Edinburgh's Old Tolbooth, the jail that once loomed over the High Street. Through prisoners, punishment and politics, Skelton turns one building into a vivid picture of the city's harsher past.

This is Glasgow's criminal history told across centuries, from courts and early policing to gangs, vice and murder. The city comes through as both place and character, shaped as much by violence as by civic pride.

Reporter Rebecca Connolly heads to the island of Stoirm when Roddie Drummond returns years after being tried for his lover's murder. Old grudges, local secrets and another death turn the island into a trap.

Davie McCall, scarred by years of abuse, rises under Glasgow boss Joe the Tailor just as the old underworld order starts to crack. Drugs, betrayal and a chance of escape force him to choose what kind of man he is.

After ten years in prison, Davie McCall comes back to a Glasgow ruled by drugs and new predators. Freedom brings old enemies, old family damage and another brutal fight to stay alive.

A killing in a club threatens to tip Glasgow into gang war, and Davie McCall knows the streets will pay first. Hunting the truth means facing rivals, ghosts from the past and the darkness inside himself.

Davie McCall wants out of the life, but a possible miscarriage of justice drags him back into Glasgow's darkness. As he tries to atone for old sins, escape starts to look impossible.

Odd-job man Dominic Queste is asked to find missing teenager Jenny Deavers, which sounds simple until dangerous people start closing in. The case mixes wisecracks, bad luck and real menace from the start.

Dominic Queste is pulled into another fast, darkly funny case when a ruthless killer seems to be choosing victims at random. Wisecracks only get him so far once the body count starts rising.

Coleman Lang wakes beside his dead girlfriend and instantly becomes the main suspect. Hunted by police, federal agents, the mob and his own past, he tears across New York looking for the truth.

Dominic Queste thinks he is being paid for nothing more than an hour of conversation with troubled Sylvester Lemay. The job soon opens into a stranger, sadder case that lingers after it ends.

Rebecca Connolly follows a murder case that echoes one of Scotland's most famous miscarriages of justice. As she digs deeper, gangsters, prejudice and a man with a grudge make the story dangerously personal.

A corpse in Jacobite dress on Culloden battlefield sends Rebecca Connolly into a case tangled with history, politics and modern extremism. When a second body appears in Redcoat uniform, the mystery only gets darker.

In 1715, Jonas Flynt is sent after a rumoured secret will that could shake the new British state. The hunt takes him from London's streets to Edinburgh, through murder, rebellion and the ghosts of his own past.

When a woman is found dead inside a pentagram on a lonely moor, Rebecca Connolly chases the truth through cult talk, local crime and old grudges. Someone else is chasing her just as hard.

London is locked in a brutal winter when a judge is found dead at St Paul's and a young man is accused. Jonas Flynt must clear him before the gallows do their work, while the bodies keep coming.

Fergus MacGregor vanished after saying he was going to Pitlochry for the day. Years later, Rebecca Connolly follows the trail into the Black Wood of Rannoch, where family secrets and folklore refuse to stay quiet.

When a lawyer with dangerous information vanishes, Jonas Flynt is sent to find him before bigger powers close in. The trail leads from London's slums to a northern village where almost nobody is telling the truth.

A butchered family in the Rookery draws Jonas Flynt into gang war, fear and a killer with a taste for chaos. To stop the bloodshed, he has to work out who is pulling the strings.

Alice Larkin asks Rebecca Connolly to revisit the suspicious death of a Tunnel Tiger decades earlier. The case reaches into dangerous construction work, buried family secrets and the reputation of a powerful past.

Jonas Flynt sails for the Caribbean after his stepmother is abducted and taken back to the West Indies. The rescue drags him toward pirates, betrayal and an uneasy meeting with Blackbeard.