Cold September
Scottish Field once described Douglas Lindsay as “a master of comic crime.” Listeners should note this is because he writes comedy crime novels, not because he murders people while dressed as a clown.
Podcast Description
Scottish Field once described Douglas Lindsay as “a master of comic crime.” Listeners should note this is because he writes comedy crime novels, not because he murders people while dressed as a clown.
Episodes

Aug 8, 2022
A PLAGUE OF CROWS
Aug 8, 2022
Aug 8, 2022
19 min
The opening chapters of DS Hutton Book 2, A PLAGUE OF CROWS, read by author Douglas Lindsay.
Hutton comes down from the mountain to get psycho-analysed, and is then called back to work by his detective inspector, who shows him photographs of three victims who've had their brains eaten by crows.

Jul 19, 2022
BLOOD IN MY EYES
Jul 19, 2022
Jul 19, 2022
15 min
A couple of short readings from the soon-to-be-released eighth novel in the DS Hutton crime fiction series.
Hutton and DI Kallas stand over a disfigured corpse in the morgue
He and DI Kallas interview a witness, learning that the killer is planning a grand adventure to escape capture

Jul 12, 2022
A PRAYER FOR BARNEY THOMSON
Jul 12, 2022
Jul 12, 2022
21 min
Selected readings from the third book in the Barney Thomson series.
After a year on the run, Barney returns to society:
he fails in an attempt to hand himself into the police
finds a job at a barbershop
and outlines his iconic idea for a whisky advert featuring the Teletubbies.

Jun 28, 2022
SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS KEPT CLEAN
Jun 28, 2022
Jun 28, 2022
20 min
Readings from the fourth book in the DS Hutton crime series, in which Hutton dreams about crows jabbing at his brains, has to interview a man whose neighbours are performing exhibitionist sex acts for his benefit, and relates a tale of being caught drinking wine up the graveyard, while chatting to the dead.

Jun 14, 2022
COLD CUTS
Jun 14, 2022
Jun 14, 2022
20 min
Human flesh turns up in a sandwich shop in excerpts from COLD CUTS, the first book in the Pereira & Bain crime series. A series so short it only has two books in it, and so therefore isn't really a series at all.

May 31, 2022
SCENES FROM THE BARBERSHOP FLOOR, VOLUME 2 / 2
May 31, 2022
May 31, 2022
25 min
Further readings from the second Barbershop Floor collection, including the Schrödinger cut, the Rzeszów Covenant, and Shag, Marry, Get The Fuck Out Of Dodge - The Best Bond Villains Rated.

May 24, 2022
IMPLEMENTS OF THE MODEL MAKER
May 24, 2022
May 24, 2022
22 min
Readings from the sixth book in the DS Hutton crime series, Implements Of The Model Maker, plus the long and winding road to the book becoming a Hutton novel.
Hutton chews the fat; Hutton gets a telling off from the chief inspector; Hutton gets another telling off from another chief inspector.

May 17, 2022
THE FINAL CUT
May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022
21 min
Scenes from the seventh Barney Thomson novel, The Final Cut. Barney arrives at the offices of a large marketing firm in London; Barney gives a marketing executive advice and a haircut; murder at the hands of infamous assassin Harlequin Sweetlips.

May 10, 2022
THE ART OF DYING
May 10, 2022
May 10, 2022
24 min
Scenes from the third book in the DI Westphall series. Westphall haunted by guilt; interviewing an artist; and sitting in church, staring up at a stained glass window of the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian...

May 3, 2022
THE CUTTING EDGE OF BARNEY THOMSON
May 3, 2022
May 3, 2022
28 min
Readings from the second Barney Thomson book.
Barney digs a grave!
Barney cuts hair!
Barney hides out in the attic, having inevitably been accused of serial murder!
COLD SEPTEMBER
Douglas Lindsay has been writing novels for twenty-five years, and remains engagingly unknown to the vast majority of the people of planet earth. His first novel, THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON, hit the cinema screen, but not the big time. Years from now he will be remembered as the guy who wrote the thing. But not The Thing. That was Bill Lancaster.



