DI Buchan Book 3 - THE LONELY AND THE DEAD

Added by Douglas Lindsay at 11:31 on 16 March 2023

Today sees the release of the third book in the DI Buchan series, THE LONELY AND THE DEAD. Following the first two titles’ trip into the world or art, literature and film, The Lonely And The Dead revolves around music and a TV crime thriller adaptation. I didn’t start writing Buchan inte...

Painted In Blood Publication Day

Added by Douglas Lindsay at 09:39 on 19 January 2023

It’s publication day for the second book in the DI Buchan series, PAINTED IN BLOOD. This was written in the autumn of 2021, while my agent was about to start trawling the crime editors of the world to see if they might be interested in the BUCHAN series. (Reader, they never were.) He asked at ...

The Holy Trinity of Decapitated Heads

Added by Douglas Lindsay at 09:22 on 06 January 2023

There was a time last year when my daughter was dragging her reluctant boyfriend to the National Gallery in London, and I said, ‘Get him to look for the Holy Trinity of Decapitated Heads, that should keep him interested,’ and I think it possibly worked for about half an hour, and when I ...

DI Buchan Book 2 - PAINTED IN BLOOD

Added by Douglas Lindsay at 12:08 on 30 December 2022

Here at Long Midnight Publishing, work has been continuing over the festive period, readying the second DI Buchan novel – PAINTED IN BLOOD – for mid-January publication. The journey of the novel from its beginnings as a random outline in the creative department of LMP, to a fully-formed ...

DI Buchan and the Facel Vega

Added by Douglas Lindsay at 14:21 on 09 December 2022

One of the editors who turned down Buchan stated that they wanted to see more from the main character than the fact he drove a cool car. I thought it a little glib and unfair, particularly given that the thing that defines Buchan the most is how he laments the way he messed up his marriage, and how ...