Quintin Jardine, Author Headline $29.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-7472-6886-4
In Quintin Jardine's seventh sexy, hard-hitting Oz Blackstone mystery, Unnatural Justice, Oz is enjoying the good life in his Scottish country house with his stunning wife, a successful businesswoman. Then Oz's fortunes take a sharply downward...
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Quintin Jardine. Headline (IPG, dist.), $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7553-5698-0
Jardine’s 23rd Bob Skinner mystery (after 2012’s Funeral Note) showcases the shrewd and personable Edinburgh cop at his relentless best. Four people have been shot and killed at a Glasgow charity concert: Antonia Field, the chief constable of...
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Quintin Jardine. Headline (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7553-4027-9
A few laugh-out-loud lines lift Jardine’s otherwise plodding third mystery featuring Primavera Blackstone (after 2010’s Blood Red). Now the ex-honorary consul for Scotland in the idyllic Catalan village of St. Martí d’Empuriès, Blackstone has...
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Quintin Jardine. Headline (IPG, dist.), $12.95 ISBN 978-0-7553-5871-7
First published in the U.K. in 2004, Jardine’s 14th Bob Skinner mystery (after 2003’s Fallen Gods) offers a sprawling cast of characters, some of whom have died in the seven subsequent installments. Readers who think this follows 2011’s Grievous...
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Quintin Jardine. Headline (IPG, dist.), $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7553-5716-1
Jardine’s first stand-alone lacks the twists and compelling lead of his Bob Skinner police thrillers (Grievous Angel, etc.). The book’s conceit—that the fictional Spanish-born journalist Xavi Aislado (whose last name means “the Loner”) has shared...
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Quintin Jardine. Headline (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (410p) ISBN 978-0-7553-5692-8
Set in the mid-1990s, Jardine’s hard-hitting 21st Bob Skinner mystery (after 2010’s A Rush of Blood) fills in some of the Scottish chief constable’s backstory. Skinner has just been promoted to detective superintendent when he takes over an inquiry...
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Quintin Jardine, Author Headline $27.5 (371p) 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...
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Quintin Jardine, Author Thomas Dunne Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14417-3
He's Robert Skinner, a high ranking Edinburgh policeman. He's got a villa in Spain, two houses in Scotland, the world's best behaved newborn and the world's most resilient new mother, in her late 30s, for a wife. He's a crack shot and a tough-fisted
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Quintin Jardine, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-11892-1
As followers of the arts gather in Scotland's capital city at the end of the summer, so too does a well-organized gang of militant zealots intent on home rule. A bomb explodes in a tent near a shopping center; then an opera singer is murdered. In...
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Quintin Jardine, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-312-11066-6
A vicious and possibly insane killer is stalking Edinburgh's Royal Mile in this striking debut, nominated for England's John Creasey Award for Best First Novel. The mutilated and decapitated body of advocate Michael Mortimer is discovered in what...
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Quintin Jardine, Author Headline Book Publishing $28 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7472-7177-2
In Quintin Jardine's Poisoned Cherries, the Scottish author's sixth hard-hitting Oz Blackstone mystery, the rugged Glaswegian thinks he's sitting pretty after landing a big role in a cop movie being filmed in Edinburgh. But a rocky marriage, an ...
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Quintin Jardine, Author Headline Book Publishing $29.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7472-7447-6
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, ...
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Quintin Jardine, Author . Headline $8.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7472-5668-7
Foul language and graphic violence abound in the 10th installment of Jardine's (Gallery Whispers, etc.) mystery series featuring Edinburgh's Deputy Chief Constable, Bob Skinner, and his friend and fellow detective, Andy Martin. The Thursday...
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Quintin Jardine, Author Headline Book Publishing $8.99 (420p) ISBN 978-0-7472-5667-0
When a notorious terrorist visits Edinburgh, Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner's behind-the-desk position as acting chief suddenly becomes a lot more exciting especially since the visit coincides with a conference of world leaders. An unrelated
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Quintin Jardine, Headline (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7553-2918-2
Soap opera threatens to trump police procedure in Jardine's 20th mystery featuring Bob Skinner, now Scotland's chief constable (after 2009's superior Fatal Last Words). When entrepreneur and thug Tomas Zaliukas turns up on a frozen hill outside...
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Quintin Jardine, Author Headline $24.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-7553-4024-8
Primavera Blackstone, the heroine of Jardine’s crime thriller series set on the Catalan coast, mostly wrestles with her carnal attraction to Gerard Rivera, a local priest, in her middling second outing (after Inhuman Remains
). When a fellow...
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Quintin Jardine, Author . Headline $24.95 (438p) ISBN 978-0-7553-2915-1
At the outset of Jardine's 19th Bob Skinner mystery, one of the stronger entries in this hard-hitting police series (Aftershock
, etc.), Skinner is about to be appointed chief constable, a promotion that will coincide with his wedding to...
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Quintin Jardine, Author . Headline $24.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-7553-4021-7
After nine Oz Blackstone PI novels (For the Death of Me
, etc.), Scottish author Jardine spins off Blackstone's loquacious ex-wife, Primavera, in a series debut every bit as over-the-top as her first name. Believed dead in a plane crash that Oz
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Quintin Jardine, Author . Headline $24.95 (436p) ISBN 978-0-7553-2912-0
Jardine’s hard-hitting 18th Bob Skinner mystery picks up the major plot strands of the 17th entry, Death’s Door
(2007), in which the Scottish deputy chief constable and his loyal team identified Daniel Ballester as responsible for...
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Quintin Jardine, Author . Headline $24.95 (408p) ISBN 978-0-7553-2909-0
The star doesn’t take center stage until late in Jardine’s hard-hitting 17th Bob Skinner mystery (after 2007’s Dead and Buried
), but when he does, the Scottish deputy chief constable quickly makes his presence felt. Skinner’s
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Quintin Jardine, Author . Headline $24.95 (377p) ISBN 978-0-7553-0409-7
In Lethal Intent
(2005), Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner foiled an assault on a member of the British royal family, uncovering a nest of traitors. In this hard-hitting sequel, Jardine's 16th police procedural to feature the Edinburgh...
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Quintin Jardine, Author . Headline $25 (376p) ISBN 978-0-7553-0406-6
Jardine's 15th Bob Skinner police procedural opens promisingly, taking the reader inside the corridors of power in Scotland as an ambitious first minister plans to exert near-total control over the police force. While Deputy Chief Constable Bob
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Quintin Jardine, Author . Headline $27.50 (245p) ISBN 978-0-7472-7176-5
Scottish author Jardine (Screen Savers, etc.) offers plenty of foul language, treachery and carnal intrigue in this rambling novel, his fifth to feature Glaswegian Osbert "Oz" Blackstone. Oz returns to Spain's Costa Brava with his second
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