Head Shot

by Quintin Jardine

Overview

Can Skinner penetrate multiple layers of intrigue to unearth a killer? An exhilarating installment in this hugely popular Scottish crime series.

Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner has witnessed the aftermath of murder countless times. Yet nothing could have prepared him for identifying the strangled bodies of his wife's beloved parents, killed at their lakeside cabin in New York State. Driven by cold rage, Skinner quickly muscles in on the investigation and soon finds links with three other cases, where the killing is too professional to be the result of a burglary gone wrong...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780755358694
Publisher:	Headline
Publication date:	07/12/2011
Series:	Bob Skinner Mysteries
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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

Editorial Reviews

If Ian Rankin is the Robert Carlyle of Scottish crime writing, then Jardine is surely its Sean Connery.

Glasgow Herald

Edinburgh cop Bob Skinner undergoes the worst ordeal of his career-identifying the bodies of his wife's parents, strangled to death in their upstate New York cabin-in Head Shot, an uncompromisingly tough police procedural by Quentin Jardine, author of On Honeymoon with Death (Forecasts, Apr. 15) and other titles in this Scottish writer's Oz Blackstone mystery series.

Publishers Weekly

'This is Jardine doing what he does best...page-turning stuff' Edinburgh Evening News

'Ian Rankin's Rebus...now has a rival for my affections. Quintin Jardine's Bob Skinner is a legend in his own police station and beyond...As crime fiction goes, it's up there with the very best' Peterborough Evening Telegraph

From the Publisher

How often in murder mysteries do we see what seems like an act of random violence unravel into a huge conspiracy covering decades of turbulent history? In this case, what could have been run-of-the-mill speculation about the “crime of the century” engages the listener with true emotions. Edinburgh' s Assistant Chief Constable Bob Skinner comes to America to investigate the murder of his wife's parents, unraveling a web of deceit and violence. James Bryce's crystal clear rendition borders on spectacular as the twists and turns mount. If you're ever in trouble, you might want someone like Skinner on your side. R.O. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine

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