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Doug Johnstone returns with his most explosive and original thriller yet ... A little lie ... a seismic secret ... and the cracks are beginning to show ... In a re-imagined contemporary Edinburgh, where a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new volcano in the Firth of Forth, and where tremors are an everyday occurrence, volcanologist Surtsey makes a shocking discovery. On a clandestine trip to new volcanic island The Inch, to meet Tom, her lover and her boss, she finds his lifeless body, and makes the fatal decision to keep their affair, and her discovery, a secret. Desperate to know how he died, but also terrified she’ll be exposed, Surtsey’s life quickly spirals into a nightmare when someone makes contact – someone who claims to know what she’s done …

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'A cracking and highly original thriller. Johnstone never fails to deliver.' -- Mark Billingham 'A subtly off-kilter speculative thriller which builds to a truly explosive ending. Once again Doug Johnstone shows why he's at the forefront of Scottish crime fiction's new guard; Fault Lines is original, ambitious but always grounded in relatable and complex characters.' -- Eva Dolan 'Brilliantly unputdownable.' -- Martyn Waites

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Doug Johnstone is the author of five novels, most recently the acclaimed Gone Again. He is also a freelance journalist, a songwriter and musician, and has a PhD in nuclear physics. He lives in Edinburgh. Caroline began her career in the iconic Bill Forsythe feature film Gregory’s Girl and has continued in her own iconic way ever since. More feature films, many TV series and the occasional foray into theatre has kept Caroline on her acting toes, including a lead role in the multi award-winning radio drama Westway for eight years. Caroline has also narrated countless audiobooks and voiced many TV and radio commercials.

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