The Blood Is Still – Douglas Skelton (Cover Reveal)

I received the best book news this week as I was asked if I could help share the cover reveal for Douglas Skelton’s new Rebecca Connolly thriller: The Blood Is Still.  “Oh Hell Yeah” – I replied.

The timing of this cover reveal is perfect. Last weekend Douglas Skelton featured in an article in The Herald newspaper which highlighted Scottish authors you really should be reading.  The article was written by DCI Daly author, Denzil Meyrick, and included Douglas, Michael J Malone, Theresa Talbot, Alex Kane and Caro Ramsay – all terrific writers and reviews of their books can be found across the five year history of Grab This Book.

So what can we hope for when The Blood Is Still releases? Well here comes the cover blurb then scroll on down for the cover in all its lushness.

 

 When the body of a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is discovered on the site of the Battle of Culloden,

journalist Rebecca Connolly takes up the story for the Chronicle.

Meanwhile, a film being made about the ’45 Rebellion has enraged the right-wing group Spirit of the

Gael. They see themselves as modern-day Jacobites and have connections to a shadowy group called Black Dawn which has been linked to death threats and fake anthrax deliveries

to Downing Street and Holyrood.

When a second body – this time in the Redcoat uniform of the government army – is found in Inverness, Rebecca

finds herself drawn ever deeper into the mystery. Are the murders connected to politics, a local gang war or

something else entirely?

 

The Blood is still is published in March 2020 and if you want to ensure you get your copy on launch day then you can pre-order here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Still-Rebecca-Connolly-Thriller/dp/1846975301/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1573901512&refinements=p_27%3ADouglas+Skelton&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Douglas+Skelton

Ready for that cover?

BOOM

I love it. Having grown up just along the road from where the story is set I know this cover captures the spirit of the location wonderfully…cannot wait to read this.

The Blood is Still is the second Rebecca Connolly thriller and catches up with a character first introduced in Thunder Bay.  You can read my thoughts on that here.

The Blood is Still will be published by Polygon on 5 March 2020.