Val McDermid and Doug Johnstone

It is always a pleasure to welcome friends, band mates and unrivaled crime writers Val McDermid and Doug Johnstone to the bookshop. They will be joining us to celebrate their brilliant new titles Still Life and The Big Chill.

In McDermid’s latest triumph, Still Life, DCI Karen Pirie is drawn into a sinister world of betrayal and dark secrets when it transpires that a man whose body is pulled from the sea was a prime suspect in a decade-old investigation. In her search for the truth, Karen uncovers a network of lies that has gone unchallenged for years. But lies and secrets can turn deadly when someone is determined to keep them hidden for good…

We return to the Skelf women in Doug Johnstone’s The Big Chill, the second book in the darkly funny and devastatingly tense Skelfs series. Running private investigator and funeral home businesses means trouble is never far away, and here the Skelfs take on their most perplexing, chilling cases yet.