Doug Johnstone is the author of twelve novels, most recently The Great Silence, the third in the Skelfs series, which has been optioned for TV. In 2021,The Big Chill, the second in the series, was longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. In 2020, A Dark Matter, the first in the series, was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and the Capital Crime Amazon Publishing Independent Voice Book of the Year award. Black Hearts (Book four), will be published in 2022. Several of his books have been best sellers and award winners, and his work has been praised by the likes of Val McDermid, Irvine Welsh and Ian Rankin. He's taught creative writing and been writer in residence at various institutions, and has been an arts journalist for twenty years. Doug is a songwriter and musician with five albums and three EPs released, and he plays drums for the Fun Lovin' Crime Writers, a band of crime writers. He's also player-manager of the Scotland Writers Football Club. He lives in Edinburgh.
"""Doug Johnstone has written a science fiction novel with all the drive, curiosity and wonder one expects to find from his crime and mystery novels because building suspense and storytelling are his hallmarks. One of the qualities that distinguishes Johnston's writing is the immediately-approachable and quick prose that deceptively pulls the reader into extremely smart and exciting ideas using an imaginative story as the vehicle: one that is as effortless to submitting to a ride at an amusement park ... Rather than a departure from his usual genre, this feels like a personal expansion of his own established oeuvre. Johnstone makes it fun and science fiction gains a new author."" --Derek B. Miller"