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...

Ballad In Blue

Added on 20 September 2018

This is the story of how Ballad in Blue came into existence. Three years ago, living in Tallinn, I decided to take a break from the non-stop bloodfest of crime writing, and write an esoteric, romantic drama set in Estonia. I used to get a haircut in a place where all the barbers were young women, dr...

The Return of Barney Thomson

Added on 20 September 2018

You know that way pop stars these days suddenly drop an album out of the blue that no one knew they'd been recording, and everyone gets really excited? This is like that. Without the excitement. Earlier this year, I was waiting for my agent to sort out the Westphall deal with Mulholland, not sur...

Revised DI Westphall Publication Dates

Added on 07 September 2018

Mulholland Books have adjusted the release dates for the first three books in the DI Westphall series. They will now all be released in 2019, in a seven-month window. Accordingly, 2019 has been officially designated by the UN and the Nobel Committee as The First Annual DI Westphall Year*, brought to...