Douglas Johnstone

Seventeen-year-old Tyler lives in one of Edinburgh’s most deprived areas. Coerced into robbing rich people’s homes by his bullying older siblings, he’s also trying to care for his little sister and his drug-addict mum....

Struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her teenage son, Ellie lives in the shadows of the Forth Road Bridge, lingering on its footpaths and swimming in the waters below....

Driving home from a party with his girlfriend and brother, all of them drunk and high on stolen pills, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits someone in the night.....

Meet Martha. It's the first day of her new job as an intern at Edinburgh's The Standard....

It's just to say that no one has come to pick Nathan up from school, and we were wondering if there was a problem of some kind?....

Doug Johnstone returns with his most explosive and original thriller yet. A little lie...a seismic secret...and the cracks are beginning to show....

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....