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The Bob Skinner Collection

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Digital (deliver electronic) / ISBN-13: 9781472230508

Price: £7.99

ON SALE: 7th May 2015

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery

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Available together for the very first time, these are the first three crime novels in the inimitable Bob Skinner series by Quintin Jardine.

Skinner’s Rules
As head of Edinburgh’s CID, Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner has seen it all… but even he is shocked by the savagely mutilated corpse discovered in a dark alleyway. Further random killings in the city suggest a vicious serial killer is on the rampage. But when the first victim’s fiancee is also murdered, Skinner realises that someone is in deadly earnest…

Skinner’s Festival
An explosion rocks Princes Street in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival. Responsibility is claimed by a group supposedly demanding political separation from Britain, but as atrocities escalate Skinner realises this is no gang of fanatics, but a highly professional team. And he is forced to assemble a crack task force, carry the ball when the government fumbles on the air, and wrestle with the beast within, who emerges with periodic ferocity to foil a clever, greedy scheme involving the crown jewels and Skinner’s own daughter.

Skinner’s Trail
First the joyous birth of Skinner’s son… Then the grim reality of murder in one of Edinburgh’s prosperous suburbs. As the murder investigation continues without result, it seems the killer was particularly cunning in covering his tracks – leaving no clues or leads to pursue. But then another seemingly minor crime takes Assistant Chief Constable Bob Skinner in a new direction, along a tortuous and bloody trail.

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Reviews

Very engaging as well as ingenious, and the unraveling of the mystery is excellently done
Allan Massie, Scotsman
Well constructed, fast-paced, Jardine's narrative has many an ingenious twist and turn
Observer
Remarkably assured, raw-boned, a tour de force
New York Times