Tombstoning

Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 245, [3 blank]. Pictorial wraps, with a Christopher Brookmyre blurb to front.

Author's debut novel. People have a predilection for diving off cliffs to their deaths in the immediate vicinity of David – an act locals have taken to calling 'tombstoning'. An original take on the contemporary thriller set in small-town Scotland. A holder of a PhD in experimental nuclear physics, Johnstone occasionally plays the drums for the Fun Lovin' Crime Writers, a supergroup which includes Val McDermid, Mark Billingham, Christopher Brookmyre, Stuart Neville and Luca Veste. "[A] master of the page-turning, heart-gripping, plot-driven tale." –The Scotsman