Author Archives: Doug Johnstone

I was on BBC Radio Scotland’s Afternoon Show with Janice Forsyth today, one of the panel doing the Tuesday review, where we blethered about an Agatha Christie adaptation, a Jenny Saville exhibition and RuPaul’s Drag Race. Like you do. Listen … Continue reading →

If you’re on Kobo, a whole bunch of terrific Orenda books are going for 99p for Easter, including Fault Lines. Go check it out!

Amongst all the rock ‘n’ roll debauchery of the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers, it would be easy to forget I’m doing an actual book event at Aye Write, Sat 24th March 3pm at the Mitchell Library, talking with Val McDermid, … Continue reading →

GLASGOW PEOPLE! The Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers are playing this Friday night at the Tramway. I can guarantee it will be all kinds of AWESOME. Details here. 

GET IT HERE! Brilliantly constructed speculative crime fiction, a classic whodunit and a dark psychological suspense, Doug Johnstone returns with his most explosive and original thriller yet. In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, where a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a … Continue reading →

Another day, another Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers gig! Check out this mini-festival in Glenrothes, where we’re playing, and each of us is doing other actual book events too. Get ready, Fife! Saturday 19th May. Tickets here.  

Liverpudlians! Look at this mad thing happening on Monday, right on your doorstep! How the hell will it work? Only one way to find out!

Hey, we’re playing at the Winter Words festival in Pitlochry next Saturday 17th Feb. Come and rock!

Here’s my latest book reviews in The Big Issue magazine, two belting crime novels, William Boyle’s Gravesend (No Exit) and Eva Dolan’s This Is How It Ends (Raven).

Here’s a thing I recorded for the Royal Literary Fund about the best advice I ever received. They meant in terms of my writing, so not gambling tips or cookery lessons or whatever. Enjoy!