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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2010
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Company of Rogues

1 - An Honourable Thief (Sep-2022)
2 - A Thief's Justice (May-2023)
3 - A Grave for a Thief (Feb-2024)

Davie McCall

1 - Blood City (Sep-2014)
2 - Crow Bait (Dec-2014)
3 - Devil's Knock (Mar-2017)

Dominic Queste

1 - The Dead Don't Boogie (Jun-2016)

A Rebecca Connolly Thriller

1 - Thunder Bay (Feb-2020)
2 - The Blood is Still (Mar-2020)
3 - A Rattle of Bones (Aug-2021)
4 - Where Demons Hide (Jul-2022)
5 - Children of the Mist (Jul-2023)

Book List in Order: 19 titles



  • The largest city in Scotland, Glasgow is a city of culture; impressive architecture, enterprise, and endeavor; and warm-hearted, generous people. But it also has a dark side. Beneath the busy streets, the Victorian sandstone, and urban trendiness lie...



  • Glasgow's mean streets just got meaner. Can Davie McCall survive? Meet Davie McCall. Beaten, bloody… brutal. Irrevocably damaged by the barbaric regime of an abusive father, and haunted by memories of his mother's murder, there is a darknes...



  • They'll all be crow bait by the time I'm finished...Jail was hell for Davie McCall. Ten years down the line, freedom's no picnic either. It's 1990, there are new kings in the West of Scotland underworld, and Glasgow is awash with drug...



  • Davie McCall is tired. Tired of violence, tired of the Life. He's always managed to stay detached from the brutal nature of his line of work, but recently he has caught himself enjoying it. In the final instalment in the Davie McCall series old f...



  • “Absolutely brilliant. A quick-witted and vastly entertaining novel that takes Douglas Skelton into the crime fiction big league.” Alex Gray“If you like your humour black and your detective novels hard boiled, The Dead Don’t Boogie is a cut a...



  • The Davie McCall saga returns in Devil's Knock. Davie McCall has darkness inside him. A darkness that haunts him, but also helps him do despicable things to those trying to cause him and his friends harm. When Dickie Himes is killed in a club own...



  • Sam the butcher is missing, and maverick investigator Dominic Queste is on the case. But it’s not because he misses Sam’s prize-winning steak pies… A dangerous man has arrived in Glasgow. He’s no small-town crook, and he’s leaving a trail o...



  • "Bullet-ridden, bold, brilliant." Neil BroadfootWhen Coleman Lang finds his girlfriend Gina dead in his New York City apartment, he thinks nothing could be worse... until he becomes the prime suspect. Desperate to uncover the truth and clear his name...



  • LONGLISTED FOR THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE 2019When 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 Pro...






  • When the body of a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is discovered on the site of the Battle of Culloden, journalist Rebecca Connolly takes up the story for the Chronicle. Meanwhile, a film being made about the '45 Rebellion has enraged th...



  • Old sins cast a long shadow in this unrelenting thriller by the author of Thunder Bay.When banners proclaiming the innocence of James Stewart spring up at the gravesite of his famous namesake -- a clan leader who was falsely accused of murder and han...



  • "Fast-paced and straight to the point -- like a well-aimed literary projectile" -- Times Scotland Set amid the dramatic beauty of the Scottish Highlands and threaded with Highland history and lore, the latest Rebecca Connolly thriller is another...



  • Introducing Jonas Flynt. Gambler. Thief. Killer. Man of honour.Longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2023'Fast, furious and with a glint of gallows humour, this is high-octane historical fiction' Daily Mail'Swashbuckling action against a vivid historic...



  • London, 1716. Revenge is a dish best served ice-cold…’An immersive, action-packed thriller with intrigue in the air and threats around every corner’ The Herald’Great fun ... the language is colourful and the action never stops’ Laura Shephe...




  • England, 1716. The only certainty in a thief’s life… is death.Christopher Templeton is a lawyer whose conscience troubles him. He knows many of the secrets of The Fellowship, the shadowy group profiting from the civil unrest in the nation, and ha...



  • The Hollow Mountain is possibly the best yet' - S.G. MacLeanThe Tunnel Tigers were an elite group of construction workers who specialised in a lucrative but hazardous profession – blasting tunnels through mountains and under rivers, in dangerou...



  • A city on the brink of civil war. A madman pulling the strings.A family is found butchered in a dismal room in the Rookery, London’s poorest district. Not even their small children are left alive.Most of the authorities pay scant attention, except ...



  • Dead thieves tell no tales...Jonas Flynt’s stepmother, Mercy, has been abducted from Edinburgh and carried back to the West Indies by her former owner.Gideon Flynt his father, has followed in hot pursuit, but Cassie, Jonas's first love, knows he is...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Douglas Skelton has published 19 books.

The next book by Douglas Skelton, Ship of Thieves, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Douglas Skelton, Glasgow's Black Heart, was published in January 2010.

Yes. Douglas Skelton has 4 series.