Long Midnight Publishing Book Covers

Added on 25 June 2019

Here at Long Midnight Publishing, the crack team of cover designers, advertising executives, marketing supremoes and top-flite influencers have been reimagining the LMP book cover range to bring the company’s output into line with pre-WWIII design aesthetics. Sure, you might argue, the books a...

WORLD CELEBRATES BOY IN THE WELL PUBICATION DAY

Added on 30 May 2019

I produced the first draft of the second novel in the DI Westphall series a long time ago, having been commissioned by Freight to write a follow-up to SONG OF THE DEAD. It was edited (or saved from oblivion more like) by fellow Tartan noirist Russel McLean, and the book was due publication one bleak...

TOUCH OF THE SPIDER - New DI Westphall Short Story

Added on 09 February 2019

TOUCH OF THE SPIDER is an all-new DI Westphall short story, available free for readers signing up to receive Hodder’s new Douglas Lindsay newsletter. Telling the story of the serial murder of Lycra-wearing cyclists in the Highlands, Touch of The Spider is the short story that critics have alre...

Song Of The Dead, Wellington and Napoleon

Added on 07 February 2019

There’s a scene in SONG OF THE DEAD set in the Map Room in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. There’s no particular reason for the scene to be in this room. It’s a regulation police interview, which could easily have been carried out in a square room with a large mirror, throug...

Excerpt from AYE, BARNEY

Added on 22 September 2018

Today DouglasLindsay.com, in association with Almost Blood-Free Razors - For That 73% Safe Cut™, is proud to bring you an excerpt from the new, besteselling Barney Thomson novel, AYE BARNEY, the eighth book in the popular barbershop trilogy. Critics are already calling the book "a triumph...