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 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....

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

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

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....

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

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

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....

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....

Primavera is enjoying the quiet life in an idyllic village on the Catalan coast of Spain. But her close friendship with the parish priest has eyebrows rising and tongues wagging....

Oz Blackstone, enormously wealthy screen hero and sleuth, dies of a ruptured aorta. Her mind still filled with thoughts of her dead ex-husband, Primavera Blackstone is in Spain with their son Tom....

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....

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....

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