Douglas Skelton is a Scottish writer of crime fiction and non-fiction.
Biography
Skelton was born in Glasgow. Before turning to writing full-time, he had been a bank clerk, tax officer, shelf stacker, meat porter, taxi driver, reporter, investigator and editor. While his non-fiction charts the true life exploits of murderers, criminals and cause celebres, his fiction settings are invariably set in his home town of Glasgow or the windswept Scottish highlands.
In August 2025, Skelton was a guest on the Off the Shelf podcast as part of a feature on the McIlvanney Prizehttps://open.spotify.com/episode/6EWFnf6dB6Zq6QsURPECcx?si=BqBNd78YS-auPuvHEnUtew.
Bibliography
Non-fiction
1992 — Blood on the Thistle 1992 — Frightener 1994 — No Final Solution 2003 — Deadlier than the Male 2004 — My Bloody Valentine 2005 — Indian Peter 2008 — Dark Heart 2009 — Glasgow's Black Heart 2017 — Scotland (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)
Fiction
2013 — Blood City — Davie McCall 2014 — Crow Bait — Davie McCall 2015 — Devil's Knock — Davie McCall 2016 — Open Wounds — Davie McCall 2017 — Tag - You're Dead — Dominic Queste 2018 — The Janus Run — Coleman Lang 2019 — Thunder Bay — Rebecca Connolly #1 2020 — The Blood is Still — Rebecca Connolly #2 2021 — A Rattle of Bones — Rebecca Connolly #3 2022 — Where Demons Hide — Rebecca Connolly #4 2022 — An Honourable Thief — Jonas Flynt 2023 — A Thief's Justice — Jonas Flynt #2
References
External links Author's website Podcast interview