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Bob Skinner
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About This Series
The Bob Skinner series, penned by Quintin Jardine, is a captivating collection of crime novels centered around the fictional chief constable of Edinburgh. With its intriguing plots and vividly drawn characters, the series immerses readers in the atmospheric backdrop of Scotland's capital, blending elements of mystery and police procedural genres. Jardine's writing is both engaging and accessible, making each book a page-turner that keeps readers on the edge of their seats.
What sets the Bob Skinner series apart is its rich exploration of themes such as justice, morality, and the complexities of human nature. Jardine crafts narratives that not only entertain but also provoke thought, making them ideal for readers who appreciate a deeper dive into the psyche of both criminals and law enforcement. The series appeals to fans of detective fiction, particularly those who enjoy character-driven stories set against the richly textured tapestry of a city like Edinburgh, known for its history and intrigue.
Beginning with 'Skinner's Rules,' it’s essential to read the series in order to fully appreciate the character development and ongoing story arcs. Each book builds on the last, allowing readers to witness Skinner's evolution as a chief constable and a person. While there are no prequels or spin-offs that significantly alter the reading experience, starting with the first book ensures a comprehensive understanding of the plot and characters.
Although no thought leaders from GurusReads have yet recommended this series, it is undoubtedly a treasure trove for avid mystery enthusiasts and those who relish tales of law enforcement navigating the murky waters of crime. If you enjoy intricate plots and a strong sense of place, the Bob Skinner series promises an engaging reading journey that will not disappoint.
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Commencez par Skinner's Rules
Livre 1 par Quintin Jardine • Publié en 1993
When a young Edinburgh lawyer is found mutilated in an alley, DCS Bob Skinner uncovers a series of apparently random murders. As the body count rises, he realises the killings mask a far more calculated conspiracy.
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Livre 1:Skinner's Rules
Quintin Jardine • 1993
When a young Edinburgh lawyer is found mutilated in an alley, DCS Bob Skinner uncovers a series of apparently random murders. As the body count rises, he realises the killings mask a far more calculated conspiracy.
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Livre 2:Skinner's Festival
Quintin Jardine • 1994
An explosion rips through Princes Street during the Edinburgh Festival, claimed by a shadowy separatist group. Tasked with protecting the city, Skinner must unpick a campaign of bombings and blackmail that reaches fro...
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Livre 3:Skinner's Trail
Quintin Jardine • 1994
A businessman is knifed in a plush Edinburgh suburb, and a linked fraud case drags Skinner from Scotland to Spain. Following the money leads him into a web of vice, corruption and arms dealers who will kill to protect...
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Livre 4:Skinner's Round
Quintin Jardine • 1995
At a new East Lothian golf resort, one of the owners is found with his throat cut in the clubhouse jacuzzi. As rumours of an ancient witch's curse spread, Skinner looks past the legends to expose a very modern motive...
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Livre 5:Skinner's Ordeal
Quintin Jardine • 1996
When a plane carrying the British and American defence secretaries explodes over Scotland, Skinner is handed the biggest case of his career. The investigation teems with suspects, and a sudden attack leaves him fighti...
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Livre 6:Skinner's Mission
Quintin Jardine • 1997
A luxury car showroom fire leaves a charred body among the wreckage, but the victim is the owner's wife, not the gangster himself. Forced into uneasy alliance with an old enemy, Skinner also reopens painful questions...
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Livre 7:Skinner's Ghosts
Quintin Jardine • 1998
With his marriage faltering, the last thing Skinner needs is to see his private life splashed across a tabloid. When two grotesque murders hit the headlines alongside allegations against him, he must clear his name an...
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Livre 8:Murmuring the Judges
Quintin Jardine • 1998
During a high-profile robbery trial in Edinburgh's Parliament House, a judge collapses and dies in open court. As more members of the bench seem to be in danger, Skinner confronts a brutal gang determined to bend the...
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Livre 9:Gallery Whispers
Quintin Jardine • 1999
A notorious terrorist heads for Edinburgh ahead of a summit of world leaders, just as a terminally ill woman is found dead in what appears to be an assisted death. Skinner races to stop an attack on the conference whi...
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Livre 10:Thursday Legends
Quintin Jardine • 2000
For twenty-five years Skinner's Thursday night football game has been a refuge from the job. That ends when one of the "Thursday Legends", a retired Special Branch chief, is found mutilated. After another teammate die...
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Livre 11:Autographs in the Rain
Quintin Jardine • 2001
Strolling through Edinburgh with movie star Louise Bankier, Skinner is thrown to the pavement by a sudden shotgun blast. As he hunts whoever is stalking his old flame, an ambitious colleague at headquarters schemes to...
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Livre 12:Head Shot
Quintin Jardine • 2002
Skinner's composure shatters when his wife's parents are found murdered in New York. Out of his jurisdiction but unwilling to stand back, he hunts a killer targeting men linked to a dark episode in the 1960s, while a...
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Livre 13:Fallen Gods
Quintin Jardine • 2003
Still weakened by serious illness, Skinner is rocked when a body washed up after a flood turns out to be the brother he has kept secret for years. As a bomb destroys a prized painting in Edinburgh and his wife faces a...
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Livre 14:Stay of Execution
Quintin Jardine • 2004
A businessman is found hanging from a tree, a visiting bandsman dies in a hit-and-run, and another victim apparently succumbs to a heart attack. As Edinburgh prepares for a massive papal rally, Skinner must decide whe...
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Livre 15:Lethal Intent
Quintin Jardine • 2005
Gangsters have quietly infiltrated Edinburgh, and a covert sting run by the security services spins out of control. When evidence of a planned royal assassination emerges and police families come under attack, Skinner...
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Livre 16:Dead and Buried
Quintin Jardine • 2006
Juggling a failed marriage and a death on his conscience, Skinner faces four crises at once: a power struggle in Westminster, a stalker targeting his daughter, a bookmaker killed in grisly fashion and a seemingly smal...
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Livre 17:Death's Door
Quintin Jardine • 2007
Two young artists are murdered in what looks like ritual killing, and the pressure to catch their killer is intense. When one victim's millionaire father brings powerful agencies into the mix, Skinner finds himself na...
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Livre 18:Aftershock
Quintin Jardine • 2008
Still grieving a fallen colleague, Skinner is called to a golf course where a woman's body has lain unnoticed for days, arranged in a disturbingly familiar pose. As he weighs copycat against continuation, links emerge...
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Livre 19:Fatal Last Words
Quintin Jardine • 2009
As Skinner stands on the brink of promotion to Chief Constable and marriage to Scotland's First Minister, a bestselling crime writer dies at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. When a second celebrity is killed...
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Livre 20:A Rush of Blood
Quintin Jardine • 2010
A wealthy Lithuanian businessman apparently jumps to his death, but Skinner and his team have crossed swords with him before and doubt he killed himself. Their suspicions deepen when a drugged teenage girl is abandone...
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Livre 21:Grievous Angel
Quintin Jardine • 2011
Set in the mid-1990s, this prequel finds newly promoted Detective Superintendent Skinner investigating a man whose body has been shattered at the bottom of an empty swimming pool. Organised crime, a knife-wielding att...
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Livre 22:Funeral Note
Quintin Jardine • 2012
When an anonymous tip leads to a body exhumed from a shallow grave, the post-mortem shows he died of natural causes. Skinner cannot leave it alone. As questions about the secret burial multiply, a corruption probe and...
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Livre 23:Pray for the Dying
Quintin Jardine • 2013
In the immediate aftermath of a devastating loss, Skinner is thrust into the spotlight and into a new Chief Constable role in the west of Scotland. While the media circle, he must balance public grief, political manoe...
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Livre 24:Hour of Darkness
Quintin Jardine • 2014
A murdered woman washes up on Cramond Island, and days later police find a blood-soaked flat whose tenant has vanished. When the dead woman's identity stirs painful memories for Skinner, now based in Glasgow, he is dr...
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Livre 26:Last Resort
Quintin Jardine • 2015
On a trip to Catalunya to ponder retirement, Skinner agrees to help old friend Xavi Aislado track a brilliant employee who has disappeared. Another hunt is underway though, and as Alex fights for him back home, he mus...
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Livre 27:Private Investigations
Quintin Jardine • 2016
A stolen car slams into Skinner's on the outskirts of Edinburgh, and the carnage in its boot shocks even him. While his former colleagues follow that trail, he is hired to find a vanished million-pound yacht, only to...
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Livre 28:Game Over
Quintin Jardine • 2017
When supermodel Annette Bordeaux is found strangled in her Edinburgh flat, suspicion falls on her footballer husband and his club. Two years after leaving the force, Skinner cannot resist getting involved, especially...
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Livre 29:State Secrets
Quintin Jardine • 2017
The Prime Minister is found in her Westminster office with a letter opener buried in her skull, hours before a crucial announcement. Dragged back into service by the security services, Skinner has forty-eight hours to...
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Livre 30:Skinner's Elves
Quintin Jardine • 2017
In this Christmas short set in 2041, a retired but still formidable Bob Skinner is drawn into a seasonal case that refuses to stay small, proving that age and distance have not dulled his instincts for trouble.
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Livre 31:A Brush with Death
Quintin Jardine • 2018
When millionaire and former boxing champion Leo Speight is poisoned in his Ayrshire mansion, the list of people who could benefit from his death is long. Brought in as an observer, Skinner works with Police Scotland d...
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Livre 32:Cold Case
Quintin Jardine • 2018
Thirty years after a popular priest was found dead in a frozen quarry and his killer jailed, new evidence drags the case back into the light. When the old "Body in the Quarry" file begins to haunt Jimmy Proud, Skinner...
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Livre 33:The Bad Fire
Quintin Jardine • 2019
Nine years after Marcia Brown apparently killed herself following a theft accusation, her ex-husband insists she was framed and hires Alex Skinner to prove it. As Alex and her investigator dig into village secrets, a...
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Livre 34:The Roots of Evil
Quintin Jardine • 2020
Set in early 2020, this case drags Skinner into a murky mix of family feuds, hostile corporate takeovers and state-sanctioned violence. As extortion and the darker corners of the publishing world bleed into one anothe...
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Livre 35:Deadlock
Quintin Jardine • 2021
Now running a global media group, Sir Robert Skinner still likes helping his elderly neighbours with small problems. When several of them die in quick succession and a gruesome find in Glasgow points towards one of hi...
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Livre 36:Open Season
Quintin Jardine • 2022
A violent storm near a family celebration exposes the remains of a long-buried double murder, reopening a thirty-year-old mystery. At the same time, a vanished crime writer may have staged his own death, and Skinner,...
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Livre 37:The Cage
Quintin Jardine • 2023
In this late Bob Skinner story, life outside the force has not freed him from danger. Drawn into a fresh investigation where secrets, politics and family ties close around him like bars, he has to decide what freedom...
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Quel est le meilleur ordre pour lire la série Bob Skinner ?
L'ordre de lecture recommandé est l'ordre numéroté affiché sur cette page, en commençant par Skinner's Rules.
Combien de livres y a-t-il dans la série Bob Skinner ?
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La série Bob Skinner est-elle terminée ?
D'après les années de publication dont nous disposons, la série semble probablement terminée et s'étend sur des publications allant de 1993 to 2023.