Blood Is Still - A Rebecca Connolly Thriller

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 the right-wing group Spirit of the Gael which is connected to a shadowy group called Black Dawn linked to death threats and fake anthrax deliveries to Downing Street and Holyrood. When a second body - this time in the Redcoat uniform of the government army - is found in Inverness, Rebecca finds herself drawn ever deeper into the mystery. Are the murders connected to politics, a local gang war or something else entirely?

About the author

Douglas Skelton was born in Glasgow. He has been a bank clerk, tax officer, taxi driver (for two days), wine waiter (for two hours), journalist and investigator. He has written several true crime and Scottish criminal history books but now concentrates on fiction. He is the author of the bestselling, MacIlvanney Longlisted Rebecca Connolly thriller series, and the Company of Rogues series.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Skelton, Skelton Douglas
• Publisher: BIRLINN LIMITED
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781846975301
• ISBN: 978-1-84697-530-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: The Rebecca Connolly Thrillers
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Thrillers / General, FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Legal, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Political / legal thriller, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives