Quintin Jardine

As head of Edinburgh’s CID, Detective Chief Superintendent Bob Skinner has seen it all....

Every August thousands of tourists and performers flood into Edinburgh for its famous festival....

First the joyous birth of Skinner’s son… Then the grim reality of murder in ones of Edinburgh’s prosperous suburbs....

Quintin Jardine's 26th Bob Skinner mystery sees the Edinburgh sleuth plunged into a gruelling new case in which no score will go unsettled....

After thirty years of service, former chief constable Bob Skinner faces the possible end of his police career at its pinnacle....

Is someone targeting Skinner's disparate group of colleagues and friends in some bizarre scheme of retribution? Or maybe the murderer one of them....

The gripping new mystery in Quintin Jardine's best-selling Bob Skinner series, not to be missed by fans of Ian Rankin and Peter May....

As Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner takes an evening stroll with Louise Banks a frightening shot-gun attack sends them diving for cover....

When two young female artists are murdered in what looks like ritualistic killings, the pressure is on to find a highly professional murderer....

Still reeling from the tragic death of their much-loved colleague, Skinner's men are about to discover that a disturbed serial killer is still at large and very close to home....

One of the world's most ruthless terrorists is on his way to Edinburgh - and he can only have one thing on his mind: the forthcoming conference of world heads of government....

When Private Enquiry Agent Oz Blackstone opens the door of the flat in Ebeneezer Street, the sight that greets him isn't quite what he's looking for....

When millionaire Leo Speight is found poisoned, Scotland's toughest cop is called in to solve the high-profile case....

A small time crook stumbles upon a body hanging from a tree; a veteran from a Belgian marching band is killed in a hit and run incident and another dies of an apparent heart attack....

When supermodel Annette Bordeaux is found battered and strangled in her Edinburgh flat, former chief constable Bob Skinner's old team instantly have a global case on their hands....

Assistant Chief Constable Bob Skinner's legendary cool is shaken when he's faced with the bodies of his wife's parents, who have been brutally murdered....

A plane explodes mid-flight and plunges to disaster from the Scottish skies, the British and American Defence Secretaries among the victims....

When struggling ex-copper Terry Coats was discovered in bed with an air hostess, his excuse that he was 'going undercover' cut no ice with the force - or his wife. But now he's been brutally killed on Hogmanay night, it seems there may have been more to his plea....

Brought up by his hard-nosed father and ferocious Spanish grandmother....

Bob Skinner may be Chief Constable no more but he's indispensable to Scotland's police force when it comes to cracking the toughest cases....