cover image Stay of Execution

Stay of Execution

Quintin Jardine. Headline, $27.5 (371pp) ISBN 978-0-7472-7450-6

The hanging death of a respectable businessman and the hit-and-run ""accident"" that kills a Belgian marching-band veteran are just the preludes to the mayhem that threatens the impending visit from Pope John XXV to his native Edinburgh in Quintin Jardine's Stay of Execution, the Scottish author's latest searing crime thriller to feature DCC Bob Skinner. .