Dead and Buried (Bob Skinner series, Book 16): A gritty Edinburgh mystery full of murder and intrigue

Dead and Buried (Bob Skinner series, Book 16): A gritty Edinburgh mystery full of murder and intrigue

by QuintinJardine (Author)

Synopsis

Murder is rarely cut and dried. Usually it follows its own unique, twisted logic...Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner has a failed marriage on his hands, and a death on his conscience. He faces the biggest challenge of his career within the secret corridors of Westminster, where dark power is wielded. Meanwhile, back in Edinburgh, Skinner's daughter is being harassed by a stalker. Can he protect her? A bookmaker has taken one gamble too many and paid his debt in a gruesome fashion. Is it an underworld vendetta, or something more sinister? Alongside it all a casual call to the Chief Constable sets him on a personal crusade which quickly points to a bigamist at work. Or is it worse? Four crimes, four crises: can Skinner and his people solve them? Indeed can they survive them?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: paperback / softback
Publisher: Headline
Published: 08 Feb 2007

ISBN 10: 0755304101
ISBN 13: 9780755304103
Book Overview: The brilliant bestseller from Scotland's King of Crime

Media Reviews
Highly recommended for patrons who enjoy British police procedurals. Library Journal
Jardine excels at coordinating the multiple crimes crucial to a police procedural and setting his coppers against the clock. Kirkus Reviews
A remarkably assured first novel . . . a tour de force. The New York Times
Author Bio
Quintin Jardine was born once upon a time in the West - of Scotland rather than America, but still he grew to manhood as a massive Sergio Leone fan. On the way there he was educated, against his will, in Glasgow, where he ditched a token attempt to study law for more interesting careers in journalism, government propaganda, and political spin-doctoring. After a close call with the Brighton Bomb in 1984, he moved into the even riskier world of media relations consultancy, before realising that all along he had been training to become a crime writer. Now, forty novels later, he never looks back. Along the way he has created/acquired an extended family in Scotland and Spain. Everything he does is for them. He can be tracked down through his blog: http://quintinjardine.me