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Doug Johnstone

    Doug Johnstone élabore des récits captivants qui explorent les aspects plus sombres de la nature humaine et des relations, abordant souvent des thèmes de suspense et de complexité psychologique. Son écriture se caractérise par une honnêteté brute et sans concession, ainsi que par une perspicacité aiguë dans les motivations de ses personnages, créant une expérience de lecture intense et immersive. Johnstone excelle dans la création d'une atmosphère et d'une tension palpables, tenant les lecteurs en haleine tout en disséquant les complexités de la vie avec une précision tranchante. Son œuvre est reconnue pour sa profondeur littéraire et sa puissante résonance émotionnelle.

    The Space Between Us
    A Dark Matter
    Black Hearts
    The Great Silence
    The Big Chill
    Gone Again
    • Gone Again

      • 256pages
      • 9 heures de lecture
      2,0(1)Évaluer

      In the tradition of The Vanishing and Tell No One comes a brilliant, guess-until-the-very-end psychological thriller.

      Gone Again
    • The Big Chill

      • 300pages
      • 11 heures de lecture
      4,0(584)Évaluer

      Running private investigator and funeral home businesses means trouble is never far away, in book two of this darkly funny, devastatingly tense series

      The Big Chill
    • 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...

      The Great Silence
    • 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 explosive thriller, and this time things are more than personal...

      Black Hearts
    • A Dark Matter

      • 288pages
      • 11 heures de lecture
      3,9(1158)Évaluer

      Three generations of women take over the family funeral-home and PI businesses in the first book of a taut, page-turning and darkly funny new series.

      A Dark Matter
    • The Space Between Us

      • 300pages
      • 11 heures de lecture
      3,7(1499)Évaluer

      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... Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers 2023

      The Space Between Us
    • Tombstoning

      • 256pages
      • 9 heures de lecture
      3,4(121)Évaluer

      David Lindsay hasn't been back to Arbroath in 15 years, ever since his best friend's body was found at the bottom of the cliffs. But a school reunion invitation from childhood sweetheart Nicola somehow proves impossible to resist and when he travels back there, he discovers that old friendships can be revived.

      Tombstoning
    • A body lost at sea, arson, murder, astronauts, wind phones, communal funerals and existential angst ... This can ONLY mean one thing! The Skelfs are back, and things are as tense, unnerving and warmly funny as ever!

      The Opposite of Lonely
    • The Collapsing Wave

      • 300pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      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.

      The Collapsing Wave
    • Crash Land

      • 272pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      Sitting in the departure lounge of Kirkwall Airport, Finn Sullivan just wants to get off Orkney. But then he meets the mysterious and dangerous Maddie Pierce, stepping in to save her from some unwanted attention, and his life is changed forever.

      Crash Land