In an announcement suitable for Halloween my debut novel, Tombstoning, is back from the dead. The book was first published in 2006, so next year will be its twentieth birthday. To celebrate, my fantastic publisher Orenda Books are reissuing it with a lovely new cover and an even more lovely introduction by none other than Chris Brookmyre. What is the book about, you ask?

Your best mate just fell off a cliff in mysterious circumstances. You were the last person to see him alive. What do you do? If you’re David Lindsay from Arbroath, you leg it – and don’t go back. Not for fifteen years.

Then Nicola Cruickshank – yes, that Nicola, the girl you always fancied but never had the guts to speak to – gets in touch. She wants you back for a school reunion. At the very place it happened. Of course you say yes. Not to lay ghosts to rest, but because you still fancy Nicola.

The thing is, if you are David Lindsay, then returning to Arbroath isn’t going to bring closure. Because when someone else tumbles off the cliffs – an act the locals now call tombstoning – David has a choice: run away again, or finally find out why people around him keep dying…

You can pre-order this slice of classic Scottish noir here or at your local independent bookshop. There will be events and other fun stuff happening around release, so watch this space. Exciting!