The Plague of Crows has come for DS Thomas Hutton, and Hell has followed…A student pushed in front of a train.A double decapitation.A man dead in the street, beaten and drugged.A woman wrapped in tape, her body dumped in a cellar.The deaths around Glasgow, random, brutal and bloody, seem unconnected. Then an e-mail arrives in Hutton's inbox, and suddenly he is thrown into another nightmare case, his world once again ripped apart in a brutal tale of revenge, sex, lies, guilt and murder."Douglas Lindsay is someone deserving to be spoken of as a master." SHOTS"Lindsay is an underrated writer with an eccentric, blisteringly satirical voice." SUNDAY EXPRESS"A master of comic crime." SCOTTISH FIELD

WHERE EVERY MURDER IS A MASTERPIECEA double murder, a public spectacle, a killer toying with the police. And then, from nowhere, a mysterious woman with a story to tell, a suspect handed to DI Buchan on a plate.______It's been a bad few months for Buchan and his team, little going right. They need a win. What they don't need is a murder victim, the naked corpse of the young woman posed on a park bench, erotically summoning viewers to the scene of her death. Then a week later, a second victim.Out of nowhere, a woman finds Buchan in the Winter Moon, claiming the posing of the corpses was based on two paintings by a little known Spanish artist. And she brings ill news; there's a third painting in the series, and she herself will be the victim.It is so unexpected, and so alien to everything they've investigated so far, suddenly it seems Buchan is carrying out an entirely new line of inquiry. However, as he gets closer to the heart of darkness, it becomes evident the two strands of the investigation are linked, the threat is imminent, and that the re-enactment of the third painting is close to being realised…

It's all fun and games until somebody loses a penis.A fiendish, fell figure, face painted like a demonic clown, emerges from the Scottish barbershop community, murder in mind, revenge to take, havoc to wreak. The first to fall is an old customer, then the Klown turns his attention to the barbers.In ones and twos they gather at the annual Scottish barbershop convention in Perthshire, unaware a maniacal monster lurks in their midst. Among them is Barney Thomson, mild-mannered hairdressing genius, cursed to walk the earth in the company of butchers, ne'er-do-wells and psychopaths.As the killer strikes, then strikes again and again, with every swipe of the knife he comes one step closer to Barney and the men of the Millport tonsorium. Penises are severed, blood is spilled, and screams bounce from wall to wall, echoing impotently into the night…THE CURSE OF THE CLOWN, the ninth book in the Barney Thomson trilogy, is the most gruesomely hilarious yet.

MURDER IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUSDS Hutton is back, in another dark and grim, blisteringly comic, sex and murder-fuelled serial killer thriller.It's a grey October in Glasgow, and the rain is mournfully falling, a requiem for a city ravaged by the effects of the long summer's virus. And now a killer enters the narrative, to wreak havoc, spill blood, and to lead the city in a dance of death.Each victim dies from a thousand brutal cuts, blood weeping from the empty eyes of the their death masque. A sister masque is left elsewhere, a rogue clue, planted by the killer to taunt the police.The danse macabre intensifies, the body count mounts higher, until Hutton, inevitably, inexorably, unbearably, is the last good man standing in the battle against a haunting and rapacious killer…

"Douglas Lindsay is someone deserving to be spoken of as a master." SHOTS"Lindsay is an underrated writer with an eccentric, blisteringly satirical voice." SUNDAY EXPRESSThe DS HUTTON BOX SET contains the first four novels in the cult Scottish noir series, as Detective Sergeant Hutton, suffering from PTSD, determinedly depressed, alcoholic, sex-obsessed and often barely functional, investigates a series of strange and brutal murders around the south side of Glasgow. From the opening case where a serial murderer meets police corruption head-on, through a bizarre tale of murder by crow, and the bloody, Biblical ravages of a church merger, every Hutton book is a brutal, darkly comic, sex and gore-filled thrill ride. Contains: THE UNBURIED DEADA PLAGUE OF CROWSTHE BLOOD THAT STAINS YOUR HANDSSEE THAT MY GRAVE IS KEPT CLEAN Coming in October 2020:DS Hutton Book 5: IN MY TIME OF DYING What Amazon reviewers have said about the Hutton series: "The protagonist is so broken, yet such a sympathetic character, and so beautifully drawn. A massive cut above standard cop thrillers; highly recommended!""He is one of the most believable characters I've ever read, and although he's a miserable git, I can't help but love him.""Very fresh take on the police procedural, approaching from a psychological perspective - Hutton is a brilliantly damaged character, well-rounded and believably flawed.""The book was as good as the others; loads of laughs and laugh out loud moments, characters that are funny, the book was very well written.""An amazing storyteller. Douglas Lindsay is so under rated. He is much better than Ian Rankin, but beware, not for the faint hearted.""Douglas Lindsay's novels scare the hell out of me, especially A Plague of Crows, but they are so good that you just have to keep reading. Even if it is 2 o'clock in the morning and you have to keep checking under you bed!""I feel like I know Hutton personally! His cases are gritty and raw but there is still time for a little humour, making these stories closer to real life. Great stuff!"

Revenge is a dish best served ... sliced. The new cold meat option in the sandwich shop isn't chicken, and it isn't pork. It's Kevin Moyes, missing for two weeks, now presumed dead. The Serious Crime Unit are notified, and the hunt for the macabre butcher takes detectives Aliya Pereira and Marc Bain to the meat-processing factory where the human flesh entered the food chain. They are followed by a media frenzy, with Pereira's boss demanding immediate results. But while the factory is clean and no one is talking, some of the players have gone missing, people are still dying, and the butcher's work is not yet done. COLD CUTS introduces DI Pereira and DS Bain, Glasgow detectives on the trail of a killer through a sordid underworld of deceit, vengeance and murder. Tartan Noir never tasted so delicious.

It's a long, hot summer in the south of England and Pitt's small vineyard is in crisis. The bank's chasing debts and government inspectors are snooping around. Yet Pitt is drawn further and further into Yuan Ju's dark and disturbing world. How far is he prepared to go to help her?Pitt's wife looks on, nervous and insecure, impotent with fear, while her mother watches everything, biding her time. She will be not fearful, but vengeful.And walking through the vines in near silence, Pitt must address the most perplexing question of all. Where are the birds? Just a few dead at first, but soon the skies are empty.Douglas Lindsay is the author of 14 novels, including The Unburied Dead (DS Hutton series), We Are The Hanged Man (DCI Jericho), the surreal thriller Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite! and The Legend Of Barney Thomson, now a major movie starring Robert Carlyle and Emma Thompson.

Barney Thomson is a barber on the run. Notorious throughout Scotland as the most prolific serial killer since the Black Death, he has escaped Glasgow and the long arm of the law by hiding out in a monastery in the frozen far north-west. However, as the snow descends, and the police slowly close in on his hideout, a new, vicious and altogether more psychotic murderer is wreaking havoc amongst the monks…

A 10,000-word short story introducing DCI Robert Jericho, who will be appearing soon in a major new crime series from Blasted Heath. The Crime A man is found brutally murdered in the Chapter House of historic Wells Cathedral, the only clue to his death the knife left buried in his neck. The Detective Having fled London several years earlier in an attempt to escape public recognition and the notion that he is some kind of modern-day Sherlock Holmes, the last thing the depressive DCI Jericho needs on his patch is a murder. The Widow The victim's widow was in Australia at the time of his death. Yet, despite the fact that she was interviewed by the police in Sydney within twelve hours of the murder taking place, Jericho remains unconvinced of her innocence. When the small city of Wells sees its second murder within a week, Jericho becomes entangled in the world of a widow who seems anything but upset by her husband's violent demise. Praise for Douglas Lindsay: "The plot, Russian...

A haunting new Detective Sergeant Thomas Hutton police thriller.A young girl stands at a window in the middle of the night, looking across the street at a man with a Bible. A stained-glass Jesus in blue looks down on the lost church. A woman hangs by the neck from a bridge in the public park, angel's wings on her back. A teenage boy lies in a bath, the water turned blood red. Four church congregations have been told to unite, with unholy consequences. One by one the victims fall, as DS Hutton and DCI Taylor are drawn into the troubled and duplicitous world of the Christian Church, as its numbers fall and members fight over the scraps of diminishing power. And for Hutton, at last, it seems there may be the chance to receive absolution for past sins. Also by Douglas Lindsay featuring DS Hutton: The Unburied Dead and A Plague Of Crows"I thoroughly enjoyed Plague Of Crows. It's another superb example of Scottish crime...