Quintin Jardine

The world of books is focused on Charlotte Square Gardens, so it's a considerable embarrassment when a crime writer and key member of the Scottish Parliament is found dead....

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

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

The heat is on for DCC Bob Skinner. His career hangs by a thread, as a recent illness has given his enemies a weapon to use against him....

The opening of an elite country club, marked by a prestigious golf tournament, turns to chaos when a man is found dead in the clubhouse jacuzzi....

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....

Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner could be forgiven for thinking that someone is out to get him....

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

When an Edinburgh car showroom is torched, Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner wonders if a life of crime has finally caught up with one of the city’s most elusive villains....

With a gang of ruthless killers at large, it's down to Skinner to piece together a puzzle of sinister complexity....

The horrific suicide of a successful Lithuanian entrepreneur shocks newly appointed Chief Constable Bob Skinner and his colleagues....

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....

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....

When Primavera Blackstone's best friend, Shirley, introduces her new man, Patterson Cowling, he seems to be a magnet for trouble....

A shocking murder at the Palace of Westminster draws Edinburgh's toughest cop into a complex new case....

Amidst a family celebration, a cataclysmic storm uncovers long-buried horrors—and a team of detectives struggle to solve a thirty-year-old double murder....

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

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....

The 30th gritty mystery in Quintin Jardine's bestselling Bob Skinner series, not to be missed by readers of Ian Rankin and Peter May....

1818, Carluke, Lanarkshire. Mathew Fleming returns home to Scotland following heroic service at the Battle of Waterloo....