Open Season (Bob Skinner Book 34)

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After a tip-off, a man's body is exhumed from a shallow grave in Edinburgh. Murder surely, yet he died from natural causes, so, case closed? Indee... With evil on one hand and intrigue on the other, will Skinner escape with either his integrity or career intact . . . or is it open season on him? Scottish crime-writing at its finest, with a healthy dose of plot twists and turns, bodies and plenty of brutality’ SUN In August each year Edinburgh is filled with thousands of tourists, performers, and enthusiastic spectators who flood into the ancient city for its Festival of the Arts - a display of culture ranging from the highly professional to the rank amateur.B...

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Scottish author Quintin Jardine has been writing crime novels with his unique brand of detective fiction for a number of years now. Touring a number of festivals, he’s a well established figure within many literary circles. With plenty of highly regarded books behind him as well, this appears to be a trend that’s set to continue into the future. Early and Personal Life A brutal and apparently motiveless murder leads Skinner to suspect his own friends of treachery, in this gripping crime novel of retribution and ultimate justice. Now living in-between both Scotland and Spain, he spends his time with his wife as he continues with his crime fiction. Married once before in 1997, he now has four children now adults along with two grandchildren and an assorted number of pets and animals. With his second Spanish home now, he enjoys spending his time away within his home in L’Escala found upon the Catalan Costa Brava, it being the only northern facing town found there. Setting many of his novels across the many places he has travelled during his lifetime, he ensure to draw upon his vast wealth of experience within his writing. This is something he’s carry on for some time to come yet. Writing CareerSkinner is plunged into a web of politics and enemies in STATE SECRETS, another compelling and utte... As ever I awaited the return of the most egotistical policeman, now media mogul, in fictional history and was I disappointed ?

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Love Quintin’s books and this was another great read which continued story from previous book. It also had all the usual characters which gives scope for so many different stories. August in Edinburgh: as Skinner stands on the edge of a career-defining moment and his fiancée� -- Scotland's First Minister Aileen de Marco� -- faces a political crisis, one of Scotland's most successful crime writers is found dead at the Edinburg... The dialogue continues to be be stilted as the author tries to use conversations to provide context from previous novels, or to convey the genius of Skinner and his considerable number of talented offspring who will never grow up to be anything other than lives in the shadow of the “great” man. Life seems to be going well for Assistant Chief Constable Robert Skinner - he's even the proud new father of a baby boy, Jazz. But when underground kingpin Tony Manson is found knifed in a luxury villa, Skinner's life is turned upside-down. It seems ...The first novel from Quintin Jardine, this was originally published in 1993 and was to mark the beginning of the Bob Skinner series of books. Setting up the character, it presents him with his first case allowing him to develop letting the readers know what’s expected. It also helped him to develop his voice as well. When an Edinburgh car showroom is torched, leaving a charred body among the burnt-out luxury cars, Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner wonders if a life of crime has finally caught up with one of the city's most elusive villains. But the corpse turns ... I really liked this book, it was much more like the rest of the Bob Skinner series, and a definite improvement on the Book 33. It was well written and displayed all the characteristic of a good Jardine novel.