Skinner's Ghosts: An ingenious and haunting Edinburgh crime novel - Softcover

Jardine, Quintin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747256659 ISBN 13: 9780747256656

Publisher: Headline, 1998

Synopsis

Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner could be forgiven for thinking not only that someone up there doesn't like him, but that someone down here is out to get him. Suffering the strain of a marriage on the rocks, the last thing he needs is for his private life to be plastered across the front pages of a sleazy tabloid. To make matters worse, two brutal murders and new allegations about Skinner himself make simultaneous headlines. As time ticks away, Skinner faces the greatest, and most personal, tests of his career. Unless he can clear his name and uncover the secret behind the series of brutal crimes, he stands to lose everything: his family, his career and even his life and liberty.

About this title

Book Description:

The seventh book in the highly praised DCC Bob Skinner series is both ingenious and haunting

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0747256659
• ISBN 13: 9780747256656
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416