Quintin Jardine

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

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 body of a murdered woman is found washed up on Cramond Island near the mouth of the River Forth....

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

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

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....

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

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

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....

The killing was an expert hit. Three shots through the head, as the lights dimmed at a celebrity concert in Glasgow....

Once upon a time in what was then reasonably Great Britain, there was a world in which the not too serious business of politics was practised without those people known today....

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....

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

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....

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

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....

After a tip-off, a man's body is exhumed from a shallow grave in Edinburgh....

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

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

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