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 of real-life crime for Glasgow solicitors. He has written eleven true crime and Scottish criminal history books but now concentrates on fiction. Thunder Bay, the first Rebecca Connolly thriller, and A Rattle of Bones, the third, were longlisted for Bloody Scotland's McIlvanney Prize for best crime book of the year, as were his novels Open Wounds and An Honourable Thief. He is now at work on the next Rebecca Connolly thriller and lives in southwest Scotland.