The Other Side of Fear: A Rebecca Connolly Thriller
By (Author) Douglas Skelton
Birlinn General
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
10th October 2025
3rd July 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: women sleuths
Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Thriller: organised crime
Thriller / suspense fiction
Paperback
336
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
There are two sides to everything, and fear isn't any different sometimes you have to push through to the other side . . .
Someone has big plans for Stoirm, and they'll stop at nothing to get what they want.
Investigative journalist Rebecca Connolly returns to the Scottish island to find out who is terrorising the locals who favour a community buyout of the estate over plans by a faceless consortium to turn it into an upmarket playground for the rich and shameless.
But before she even sets off, she is threatened by two men, men who are no strangers to inflicting pain. Rebecca being Rebecca, this only serves to heighten her curiosity, and she heads for the island, leaving behind romantic troubles and, she thinks, a young woman set on making her name in journalism.
It isn't long before threats become murder and Rebecca finds herself in mortal danger from an old adversary among the breaking waves of Thunder Bay.
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.