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'It's just to say that no-one has come to pick Nathan up from school, and we were wondering if there was a problem of some kind?'

As Mark Douglas photographs a pod of whales stranded in the waters off Edinburgh's Portobello Beach, he is called by his son's school: his wife, Lauren, hasn't turned up to collect their son. Calm at first, Mark collects Nathan and takes him home but as the hours slowly crawl by he increasingly starts to worry.

With brilliantly controlled reveals, we learn some of the painful secrets of the couple's shared past, not least that it isn't the first time Lauren has disappeared. And as Mark struggles to care for his son and shield him from the truth of what's going on, the police seem dangerously short of leads. That is, until a shocking discovery...

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26 February 2013
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'Excellent ... sharp and moving.' "The Times"
'Deeply poignant and compelling ... it's hard to take your eyes off the page.' "Daily Mail"
'Calling to mind the best of Harlan Coben, Johnstone shows us how quickly an ordinary life can take one dark turn and nothing is ever the same again.' "Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me and The End of Everything"

'Excellent ... sharp and moving.' The Times

'Deeply poignant and compelling ... it's hard to take your eyes off the page.' Daily Mail

'Calling to mind the best of Harlan Coben, Johnstone shows us how quickly an ordinary life can take one dark turn and nothing is ever the same again.' Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me and The End of Everything

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Doug Johnstone is the author of four novels, most recently Hit & Run, acclaimed by Ian Rankin as 'a great slice of noir' and by Irvine Welsh as 'a grisly parable for our times'. He is also a freelance journalist, a songwriter and musician, and has a PhD in nuclear physics. He lives in Edinburgh. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00APDABX8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber; Main edition (26 February 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1044 KB
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Doug Johnstone is the author of thirteen novels, most recently The Great Silence (2021). His previous book, The Big Chill (2020), was longlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year. Several of his books have been bestsellers and three, A Dark Matter (2020), Breakers (2019) and The Jump (2015), were shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year. He’s taught creative writing and been writer in residence at various institutions over the last two decades including festivals, libraries, universities, schools, prisons and a funeral directors.

Doug is a Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow and works as a mentor and manuscript assessor for many organisations, including The Literary Consultancy, Scottish Book Trust and New Writing North. He's been an arts journalist for over twenty years and has also written many short stories and screenplays. He is a songwriter and musician with six albums and three EPs released, and plays drums for the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers, a band of crime writers. He’s also co-founder of the Scotland Writers Football Club.

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Malcolm R

Thick-eared fairy tale

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 July 2019

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Struggled with this from the first chapter. We are supposed to believe a press photographer metamorphoses into an ace detective, his son aged six and aged mother-in-law into gun toting killers and not being prosecuted for possessing an illegal firearm, several assaults, one with a gun and trespass. The police look on incompetently. The style is clunky and heavy handed. Did not enjoy it!

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Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin

Herrings come home to roost

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2021

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A complicated, risky crime story that works like a bad dream. After his wife's sudden disappearance, an Edinburgh photographer copes with his small son while trying to find out what's happened (and coming under suspicion himself). As the story opens, he's out photographing endangered whales on the Firth of Forth, Their plight may be just a symbol of his own problems, but symbols can also turn physical. Some seemingly red herrings are launched. Will they be woven back into the plot, or be left hanging out to dry? A Chekhovian gun lies unnoticed in an underwear drawer. Is this just a Freudian symbol, or will someone pick it up? Read on.

Hippy chick

Made my eyes leak........

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 May 2014

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Because I found myself with tears in my eyes quite a few times throughout the book, it was so well written and sucked me right in.

In brief, things start to go awry for Mark when his son's school rings him to let him know that his wife, Lisa, has failed to collect their young son, Nathan from school. Totally out of character for Lisa to do this albeit she had done a disappearing act once before after Nathan's birth. Thankfully, that time she'd turned up ok and had been a doting mother to Nathan ever since. But during subsequent counselling sessions, historical abuse on her by her father came to light. This then caused a rift between Lisa and her Mother who, refuses to believe such a thing....at first......

After Mark picks Nathan up from school, he tries to locate Lisa's whereabouts all to no avail. Tries to report her as a missing person to the police later that evening but the police explain that she has to be missing longer to qualify as a missing person. Naturally they ask him if it's possible she'd been having an affair blah de blah. While he says he's sure she wasn't and how they were both thrilled at the prospect of having a baby daughter, it plants a seed in his mind remembering how Lisa's boss had been overly attentive towards her and making a play for her in the past. Mark confronts her boss who says that the last time he saw Lisa was when she took half a day off the day she hadn't collected Nathan from school, but Mark seems suspicious feeling that her boss is trying to hide something.

I won't tell you the outcome of the book but it's a gripping tale which had me not wanting to put the book down until I'd finished it and you'll have to read it for yourself to find out if it's a happy ever after or not. Really good though.

Never read anything by this author before, but will definitely be on the lookout for any others.

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Rebecca H

Drama in Portobello!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 December 2017

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I hadn’t read any of Doug Johnstone’s books until recently but that is something I intend to remedy ASAP. I loved the setting of this book set as it is in Portobello and Edinburgh. Mark Douglas, a self employed photographer is out on a job when he gets a phone call to say that his son Nathan is still at school as no one has collected him. From that point his whole life takes a dark and disturbing turn. As the police don’t seem at first to take his wife’s disappearance seriously and starts to do some investigating of his own. This has some dreadful consequences for Mark, Nathan and also his mother in law who is drawn into the proceedings. It’s a fast paced plot with enough twists and turns to hold my interest and keep me hooked to the end. And that was a bit of a shocker! I’m looking forward to reading more.

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Highly recommended for lovers of mystery thrillers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2015

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Gone Again

by Doug Johnstone

When a wife disappears the husband is always a suspect. When Mark Douglas receives a phone call from his son's school to say that his wife has failed to collect their son, Nathan, he has a problem. His wife Lauren disappeared once before, six years ago, whilst suffering from post-natal depression and she has just found out that she is pregnant again.

Show long should he go on pretending to his six year old son that everything is all right? Should he call his Mother- in- law, despite a court order forbidding him from contacting her? When he cannot put off calling the police any longer, should he tell them about the previous ten day absence?

The story is intriguing, and keeps you guessing to the end. The relationships between the characters are sensitively dealt with and the plot unfolds gradually and is well paced right up to the climax which, is very dramatic and quite shocking.

I found the book gripping and engaging and I started to read it early one evening and did not put it down till I had finished it!

Highly recommended for lovers of mystery thrillers. I will definitely be looking for other books by this author.

Sue Almond 2015

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