Book description
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 . . .
Doug Johnstone is the author of four novels, most recently Hit
and Run (2012). Writer-in-residence at the University of Strathclyde,
he is also a freelance journalist, a songwriter and musician, and has
a PhD in nuclear physics. He lives in Edinburgh.
