- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Penguin (3 Aug 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141027576
- ISBN-13: 978-0141027579
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 393,978 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Your best mate just fell off a cliff in mysterious circumstances and you were the last person to see him alive. What do you do? Well, if you're David Lindsay from Arbroath, you get the hell out of there and don't return. Not for at least fifteen years. Until Nicola Cruickshank - yes, that Nicola, the girl you always fancied but never had the guts to approach - gets in touch and asks - no, demands - that you go back for a school reunion. To the place where it happened. The place you've been running from for fifteen years. Of course you go. Not to belatedly lay your mate to rest, but because you still fancy Nicola. The thing is, if you are David Lindsay, then returning to Arbroath isn't going to lay any ghosts to rest. And when someone else takes a dive off the cliffs - an act the locals have taken to calling 'tombstoning' - while David's there, he has a choice: run away again, or finally find out why people keep dying around him . . .
About the Author
Doug Johnstone is a writer and freelance journalist, based in Edinburgh. He has a PhD in experimental nuclear physics and spent four years designing radar and missile guidance systems for planes and helicopters. He is also a singer, song-writer and instrumentalist in a band, Northern Alliance, which has released two albums to critical acclaim and minimal sales. This is his first novel.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed this book - the story moves along at a great pace and I read it in two long sittings. I'd heard Christopher Brookmyre comparisons, and I can see where that's coming from because there's the same dry humour and the same witty, realistic dialogue. The plot doesn't have any mad Brookmyre-style twists, but that just gives the characters more room to develop. Nicola is one of the best-realised fictional women I've come across, and it's nice to see the heroine getting equal page time rather than just dripping about in the background!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It is some time since I have read a book as bad as this and how Christopher Brookmyre can endorse it is beyond me.
The storyline is weak and the ending is so predictable.Of course the author has to pad it out with a plethora of foul language,a touch of violence and some outdoor sex.
Be warned,this book is dire!!
The storyline is weak and the ending is so predictable.Of course the author has to pad it out with a plethora of foul language,a touch of violence and some outdoor sex.
Be warned,this book is dire!!
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A friend told me about this book and author, so I thought I'd give it a go...I'd pre-ordered it from Amazon ages ago, and forgotten all about it....When I received it, I read it within 2 days....what a great read and a great first novel....in terms of plot there were no major surprises or twists at the end, but that didn't spoil the enjoyment of getting sucked into the lives of great characters very well written....I think we all know a Nicola or a David and even a Mike unfortunately!! A really enjoyable read...looking forward to reading what Doug Johnstone produces next....
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