The Blood is Still

Written by Douglas Skelton

Narrated by Sarah Barron

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 which is connected to a shadowy group called Black Dawn 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?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd
• Release date: Aug 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781445090917

Douglas Skelton

Douglas Skelton was born in Glasgow. He has been a bank clerk, tax officer, taxi driver (for two days), wine waiter (for two hours), journalist and investigator. He has written several true crime and Scottish criminal history books but now concentrates on fiction. Thunder Bay (longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize), The Blood Is Still, A Rattle of Bones and Where Demons Hide are the first four novels in the bestselling Rebecca Connolly thriller series.

Reviews for The Blood is Still

[Alan Riles · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Rebecca Connolly #2, set in Inverness with a Culloden angle and fairly complex plot of child abuse, revenge and murder.
Occasionally the authorial asides are a bit cliched and clunky.
Merits comparison with Val Mcdermid