Tigers in the Dark: A Rebecca Connolly Thriller

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Alice Larkin, the headstrong child of a millionaire and former news reporter, has a story to tell. She claims there was a murder committed sixty years ago during the building of the Ben Cruachan power station on the shores of Loch Awe, and she wants Rebecca and her boss, Elspeth, to investigate. Alices lover was a Tunnel Tiger one of the elite squad of workers who undertook the dangerous work of blowing the rocks out of the mountains who died in mysterious circumstances.

Intrigued, Rebecca throws herself into investigating the story, but she soon comes face to face with an old adversary and unearths a troubling secret about her own family. Reputations and legacies are at stake and shockingly close to home.

Author Bio

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.